Hello, all:
My second post-op PSA reading just came in at < 0.01.  Wahoo!!
--charlie

<.04      Howie

I did not for a second think that I was to stir such a hornets nest of HATE,
personal recriminations and attacks.
It is because of MY dearly loved Son Alan - the Gayboy (with his permission
and positive encouragement) that I write this with him looking over my

Last night was the inaugural run for the Muse treatment and it didn't help.
Of course, Larry was extremely anxious and stressed about it so that could
be why there was no erection. He wanted it to work so badly and now I feel
very bad for him.  But, we're not going to give up.  ...

Looking for some thoughts.
Had a biopsy coming up on three weeks ago and still no answers but psa
went from 4.5 in october to 7.9 in january, 2 yrs ago it was less than
2.0.

Prostate cancer prevention holds exciting possibilities for the future
and  suggests some prostate cancer prevention strategies for men to
use now. When  deciding on what prevention strategies to adopt, keep
in mind that several of  the strongest known risk factors for prostate

The study
Hypponen E, Power C.
Hypovitaminosis D in British adults at age 45 y: nationwide cohort
study of dietary and lifestyle predictors.

Just letting you folks know, I'll be headed to Alabama and shant be back
here before Monday evening.
I don't usually announce my travel, but I suspect by absence will be noticed
this time -- if what I expect will happen happens.

Hi again group:
If you have already replied to the group, could you email me directly
at TimEastonPA@yahoo.com since I can't seem to access the group digest
very well from my cellphone.

Biopsy Day, that is.
I know many of you have been through this, some multiple times but
tomorrow I lose my cherry so to speak. Hopefully the outcome will be
positive.

hi all, haven't posted for a while, still regular lurker though :-)
Three years ago today was my RRP.  Current situation is good.  PSA
was .04 in Dec (up from previous <.01) but doc thinks this just a lab
anomaly (hope so anyway). Have another PSA test scheduled for April

Gradually, gradually, I've been coming to terms with my mild case of
ED.  I don't like it but, hey, that's life.
I was googling around tonight.  I don't remember what I was searching
on but ended up at

Isn't a radiation oncologist always the one to perform the radiation
treatment and not the urologist?  Once a radiation oncologist is involved in
the actual cancer treatments, how necessary is it to continue referring back
to the urologist?  (I had radiation seeding on 29 ...

We had recently several threads on this issue.
I quote from one of them: "Actually, I wrote over a year ago that,
based on my model for prostate cancer, in theory, large amounts of soy
would make prostate cancer grow more rapidly.  I'm glad to see that

I have spent time lurking and reaching out a few times.  Paul's
surgery was November 6, 2006.  He has done very well getting back on
his feet.  Thanks to all the wondeful support here we got through
surgery with everything we needed.  The recliner still was the best