A little vodka with that cranberry juice don't hurt.  I might try that
myself sometime.

Good to hear you're doing ok CDS.  

Dale J.

Piece of Cake, eh?  Both above symptoms disappear eventually after treatment
ends- give it a few months.  At least you didn't need Flomax (for patients
who have diffculty peeing) or get blood in the stools from rectum
irritation.  I'm 9 months post treatment and feel virtually intact except
for noticeable decrease in volume of ejaculate.  Everything else pretty much
"normal."

Sounds like you're doing very well.

I've had one HDR brachy therapy and 11 EBRT treatments.  I've
got one more HDR and 12 more EBRT to go.

My experience has been similar to yours; more urination, but
with less output on each one; softer stools.  In addition, I've got
some very minor irritation of the skin, which so far I can deal with
with creams and lotions.

One other effect - probably caused more by the Lupron I'm on
than by the radiation, is a decrease in my ability to do aerobic
exercise.  But I'm fighting it and hoping to recover well when the
treatment is all done.

Oddly, I'm still able to have erections in spite of the Lupron.  But
my attempts at sex have produced a significant amount of prostate
pain along with the customary pleasures.  I presume that's mostly
a result of surgical + radiation damage from the intrusive
brachytherapy rather than from the EBRT.  It's rather a downer.

  Alan

Just to add to your comment on MD Anderson. I had surgery there on 12
December 2003 and I was very impressed with absolutely everybody from the
surgeon on down to the nurses aides.

Erik