I caught my first cold this past week in the year since I was diagnosed and
treated for PCa .  On Thu., I started taking an over-the-counter cold
medication containing pseudoephederine, and as usual it sure helped with the
cold symptoms.  Then Friday night I started noticing old and forgotten
urinary problems: difficultly and hesitancy starting, weak and intermittant
stream, incomplete voiding.  Damn, I thought, the radiation side effects are
finally kicking in.  Yeah, it's been over 5 months and right on schedule.

Next evening after a day of this, I mentioned it to my wife as I was
preparing to pop another tab.  She asks, had I read the warnings on the
package?   You would think I might have learned a few tricks like that given
all that has transpired health-wise.  Label: "Ask your doctor before use if
you have trouble urinating due to an enlarged prostate gland."  Well, no
prostate gland but I'm a pro at having trouble urinating.  So I stopped with
the pills and within 24 hours all symptoms gone!  Urinary symptoms, that is.
The cold feels like crap without pseudoephederine.  But I'll take it, ya
know? ;-)

-dt