There is an interesting article in the latest Consumer Reports.  It says
that calcium in the diet has various possible health benefits, among
them reduced risk of colon cancer and lowering of blood pressure.
But other studies suggest that too much calcium in the diet may increase

I'm 63, in good health.
First PSA four months ago = 5.0
Second PSA three days ago = 5.6
Physician asked me if I wanted to wait a month for another PSA to see if it

 No problem with the injection except that I bent the needle trying to pull
off the cap with one hand while the other was busy holding Willie down.
Used it anyway.  Felt the needle go in, but no big deal.  That will not hold
me back in the future.  It took maybe ten minutes for ...

 I'm using Outlook Express with Optimum Online Cable as my ISP. I gotta tell
you that something is totally wacky. Unread posts show up as unavailable on
server, and the time range is all screwy too. I just switched over to the awful
AOL newsreader, but at least this one is working. ...

My PSA has risen to 5.2 and the doc wants to do a needle biopsy.  I
hear bad things about biopsy.  I had a AMAS test that was negative for
cancer.
Not long after my last PSA test that showed a rise from 4.1 to 5.2, I

Just a note that results back.
PSA 0.031
Surgery was 8/19/99 Emory University Hospital Atlanta Georgia.
My age at surgery 49. first elevated PSA was at age 46 (first test).

I am scheduled for the Robotic Prostate surgery..is anybody in the same
boat as me as far as having only Medicare and Medicaid to pay for all
this?  I just hope I have to pay nothing because we live on SSD
only..thanks.  Howie

This is Howie, I am 63, living on a SSD income..wife is 58 and has NO
health Ins, cant get SSI, cant get ANYTHING til she is 60 ? 62 ? 65 ?
she did not work long enough to get any SS, Medicare or any help...I
have PCA and will have  Robotic removal..6 0n Gleason 3+3... We have

   Some may remember my neighbor that had RP in June this year.  He is
still incontinent and is now seeing a nurse that specializes in incontinence
problems.  She hooks him up with electrodes and teaches him which muscles to
use.  He does what I suppose is a Kegel exercise ...

We went to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving weekend with his family but stayed
in a hotel.  To those of you who don't know us, John's RPP was July 16,
2003, and because his cancer was in the beginning of stage 3 the doctor was
not able to spare much of his nerves.  He had not been able ...

Has anybody had this done? If so, tell me about it because I will be
having it soon..Howie

Maybe I am Old Fashioned, but some of the threads/comments in here
seem {at least to me} to be a tad too near to the bone {pun intended}.
Afterall this is a serious meeting place where lives can be on the
line, where we can all try to help, advise and direct each other in

Many of you say that with patience, time, and Kegels you achieved
continence, or dry shorts, sooner or later. Does that imply you simply
learned to perform the Kegel isometric every moment you're standing, either
consciously or subconsciously, or that some other mechanism took ...

IP, and anyone else....
My cousin was just dx'd with colon cancer (I think my family only has a
couple of cancers left to be dx'd with).  He had a colonoscopy just before
Thanksgiving.  Asymptomatic.  Polyps found that were "large".  He found

Pre op psa 17, gleason 7.  Had robotic surgery 3 weeks ago and
everything ok.  Path report came back nodes negative,seminal negative
but one side of nerve shows cancer.  Anyone had similar findings.