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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / November 2006I joined the club in May
I received some real good advice, regarding my psa velocity, from this NG and in May posted the results of my biopsy indicating gleason 3+4, and one core containing 5% prostatic adenocarcenoma. My psa was 3.48. I chose external beam radiation and continued having sex and lifting weights during the 41 treatments at Kaiser in socal. My psa in October was 3.09, so it has turned down. My doctor says that I will be having my psa checked every 6 months for the rest of my life. Right now I couldn't be happier that I did not go the surgery route. I am 66 yr and single. I chose my path and we'll see what happens. Thanks again. Til 05/06 biopsy results: gleason 3+4-5% prostatic adenocarcenoma-stage t1c psa 3.48, 3.09 > I received some real good advice, regarding my psa velocity, from this NG ... > 05/06 biopsy results: gleason 3+4-5% prostatic adenocarcenoma-stage t1c > psa 3.48, 3.09 Good going. I'm guessing that since they didn't give you Lupron, you have no side effects. Could you confirm that? Pee'ing works like before? Erections like before the treatment? Semen production probably off a little but who's measuring. Orgasms - check. Let us know. My Internal Medicine doc "suggested" that IMRT alone might be right for me but both my Uro and Rad-docs thought that with my PSA at 10 and Gleason (4+3) albeit in only 5% of one needle, that more aggressive treatment was called for. In my case, this was "confirmed" by the MRI that showed more cancer than the biopsies. -kh > Good going. I'm guessing that since they didn't give you Lupron, you > have no side effects. > > Could you confirm that? I know you weren't asking me, but I'll offer my update. I was PSA 13.8, GS 3+4 and rad onc recommended against HT. Seeds (iodine) implanted 10/23. Had 9th of 35 IMRTs yesterday. So far, peeing is good. Slow if I don't workout, but better if I do. But still haven't had to use Flomax. Erections suffered for the week after seeding. Doc said swelling was probably the cause. Guess he was right. They're better now than before seeding. Orgasms were slightly painful for a couple of weeks after seeds, but are fine now. So far, so good. We'll see how the next five weeks of IMRT goes but, so far, it's just a minor bump in the road. The doc told me Tuesday I'm getting 1.5 G of radiation per day. He said the peaks within my prostate will ultimately get 250 G's. That ought to kill the bastard. John Right, no Lupron. I have one side effect, there is a change in my rectum that requires more trips to the bathroom per day. Instead of going once during the day, I may go 4 times. The peeing part had no change. The orgasms are a little better now than before; but during the radiation it burned when I had orgasms; but I just let it burn. My girlfriend confirmed that my semen is back to normal. The biopsy messed that up for a while. My radiation doctor told me to keep having sex. He told me to take Viagra everyday during the radiation. I used Cialis instead. I didn't take it everyday, but enough so that I could tell it was doing the job. I always used trimix; so there was no change there. Good luck kh. Til >> Good going. I'm guessing that since they didn't give you Lupron, you >> have no side effects. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > John |
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