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I’m currently on active surveillance. The details are in my profile with more information in my blog with the same title as this. After initial worry of being diagnosed and spending hours on research about treatment and outcomes etc I became a strong...
Hi everyone, New to this forum so thank you for providing a much needed resource. I never thought I would need such a forum but here we are. I have just received the results of my MRI and I am a Pirad 5. A 15mm lesion on one side which has not spread...
The frustration and depression comes in waves. Aged almost 80 and with advanced prostate you learn to recognize when the medics shrug their shoulders not because you can't be treated but because the system says you aren't worth it. Time to add an...
Hello to all fellow people with P.C problems.As I have not posted for a while I thought I would say how things are going.As some of you know I was diaganosed in 2019 wit a P.S.A of 1220.over time that has reduced to now 29.88.It did go down to 20.5 at...
Hello everyone my dad has been having prostrap infections for 3 years now and his psa is staying low. The consultant is wanting him to switch to orgovyx as the side effects are less severe. He has some heart problems and the orgovyx is supposed...
2 months ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 advanced prostate. PSA 49.8 Gleason 4+4 600mg Darolutamide twice a day 11.8mg Decapeptyl injections Soon to undergo radiotherapy Feeling very down.
Hi all, Just wanted to say hi. I got diagnosed last year and had RALP in September. Unfortunately the margins were not clear and in January my PSA went from 0.16 to 0.23. I'm now secluded for salvage Radiotherapy at end of March. To say I'm gutted is...
Hello, Please click on our avatar for journey profile. I posted over the weekend on my update post and today we have found out that the CT scan booked for next week was ordered as urgent and paul also has an appt for a bone scan on the 10th March...
Hi, My partner had a radical prostatectomy in March 2025. Almost a year on he still has severe urinary incontinence so will soon have tests to determine if a sphincter will help with this. If he is suitable the sphincter op. is likely to be this September...
Hello, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer metastatic in t12 rib in June 2024. Since I have had the standard 3 monthly jab from the GP and on apalutamide tablets. Generally it has gone ok, without too much bother with side affects. I do wonder if it...
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