Prostate Cancer

[Saint Billy]

Anyone had it?.

 

I had mine removed two and a half years ago by robotic surgery. Not entirely out of the woods yet as my psa is slowly creeping up.

 

Main reason for posting is to see if there are any fellow sufferer's and how they have coped with the side effects of surgery.

 

Makes me chuckle when I am called a bed wetter on the football forum

[OldNick]

not me fortunately, I hope things clear up for you. Had the ordeal of the camera up the front bottom once. Not good fun, seemed like the camera crew were with it!!!

[Saint Billy]

not me fortunately, I hope things clear up for you. Had the ordeal of the camera up the front bottom once. Not good fun, seemed like the camera crew were with it!!!

 

Cheers. As it is such a common illness I thought more on here would have been effected in one way or another but I suppose it is a delicate subject to approach.

 

After the initial shock of being diagnosed I was and still am cool with it as it was caught early enough, I might need a spot if radiotherapy to finally nail it in the future but it is the after effects of the surgery that are the big downer, I just wondered how others coped or are coping with it.

[View From The Top]

It's what my father died of as he was of a generation that didn't go to the doctor for that sort of thing.

 

I had, was treated for and recovered from cancer in my tight tonsils last year, one of the cancers becoming more commonly occurring in men between 40-50 and caused my the HPV+ virus, the same virus that causes cervical cancer in women. Operation, all back teeth out, feeding tube into the belly and 6 weeks of daily radiotheraphy and 8hrs of chemo every Tuesday.

 

Treatment made me sick as a pig and took a good 9 months to recover from and I'm still only at about 90%.

 

Cancer, is, as they say, a c**t.

[Saint Billy]

It's what my father died of as he was of a generation that didn't go to the doctor for that sort of thing.

 

I had, was treated for and recovered from cancer in my tight tonsils last year, one of the cancers becoming more commonly occurring in men between 40-50 and caused my the HPV+ virus, the same virus that causes cervical cancer in women. Operation, all back teeth out, feeding tube into the belly and 6 weeks of daily radiotheraphy and 8hrs of chemo every Tuesday.

 

Treatment made me sick as a pig and took a good 9 months to recover from and I'm still only at about 90%.

 

Cancer, is, as they say, a c**t.

 

Good grief that sounds nasty, it does seem that to beat cancer you do have to go through some uncomfortable and harrowing sh*t, worth it though.

Glad your getting there.