Time is getting close. We will travel to Umich on Sunday. Booking a room for
3 nights, Sun, Mon, Tues. Biopsy is noon Monday. If all goes really well,
I'll cancel the 3rd night and get home (21/4-hour drive).
I'll be getting the sedation. I ended up choosing that because the OR ...

Steve K. wrote:

We started last week on Sunday Nov 16. Last night it finally happened.
We went from 35% erect (my guess) to 100% erect without question and
without doubt. Approximately 5 minutes of stimulation after locking the
ring on was all he needed. Now at age 47 he was just as hard as he was

Once a year, usually on or about the anniversary of being diagnosed with
prostate cancer (PCa), I relate my full history.  I do this for the newly
diagnosed or those new to the newsgroup or those who are considering
radiation or ADT having failed with surgery.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here!!
Our son arrived last night and we are heading off to Maryland for
Thanksgiving. It will be wonderful having the entire family together for
the first time in many years.

I just opened a book purporting to describe the best plan(s) for health for
men with Prostate Cancer.  I obtained it with the intent of learning more
about supplements, vitamins, capsacin, etc.  In the first three pages
(including the Intro), the author thrice states that ...

OK, I appreciate all the responses to my bad news post. That is helpful. You
all said don't panic and that I would have plenty of time to arrive at a
decision.
Well, I have had since August to think about it and I have made plans (from

Mel wrote and asked:

My uro recommends "Lupron" monotherapy until PSA goes undetectable,
then off, then back on at some indeterminate point, and so on. Is this
the standard protocol for intermittent ADT/HT at this time?
Bill/Memphis

Saw my PCP yesterday and asked him if he'd been following the health
care debate.  He said he wasn't following it closely  because it keeps
changing.  He did offer a couple comments, one of which I have not
seen mentioned much or at all in the typical media reports.  One was

With all the arm chair scholars, wise men and women,and want to be
politicians it would be wonderful if with their firey energy they could come
up with an equitable Health Insurance Plan for the US of A.
I see a lot of intelligence going to waste verbalizing, and throwing salvos

Larry's three month post EBRT PSA was 0.014.  The reading immediately
following radiation was 0.003.  The rad onc said this would probably happen
and not to panic as it's the next reading in six months that we need to pay
attention to.  So, we're being optimistic, will enjoy the ...

Three years ago today, I had my prostate removed at Johns Hopkins
University by Christian Pavlovich.  Clear margins, one nerve spared.
PSAs have been pretty much undetectable since.  Some stress
incontinence, nothing that Tena can't handle.  Erections are about

Some of you may remember me from my posts entitled "E.D. Saved Our
Marriage" posted to news:alt.support.impotence and "Prostate Cancer
Saved Our Marriage" posted to news:alt.support.cancer.prostate and i can
always repost them if you'd like.

March 2009 to November 2009 is only 8 months.
You've had Eligard in March and September 2009 only?