Prostate cancer

[MCFC_ Phil]

Had my appointment and good news it isn't cancer. It is enlarged and waiting collect medication to take for 3 months to see if that helps. Also cut down on my coffee intake of 3 cups a day. If not then potential surgery. Thank you so much to everyone on the thread who offered me advice, good wishes, those who just read and liked my posts as I reached out etc. Lads lads get yourself checked out it might just save your life

This is the diagnosis I had. Basically my prostate was double it's normal size. Consultant said as long as it's not causing huge problems no need for medication. I agreed no point unless it really affects you. How bad is it? Surgery should be last resort IMO, heard too many horror stories.

 

[ob]

This is the diagnosis I had. Basically my prostate was double it's normal size. Consultant said as long as it's not causing huge problems no need for medication. I agreed no point unless it really affects you. How bad is it? Surgery should be last resort IMO, heard too many horror stories

This is the diagnosis I had. Basically my prostate was double it's normal size. Consultant said as long as it's not causing huge problems no need for medication. I agreed no point unless it really affects you. How bad is it? Surgery should be last resort IMO, heard too many horror stories.

Been told 3 months meds and if it doesn't work then looking at surgery. Told me to cut out coffee. I'm 2 months into meds

 

[davyhulme blue]

This is the diagnosis I had. Basically my prostate was double it's normal size. Consultant said as long as it's not causing huge problems no need for medication. I agreed no point unless it really affects you. How bad is it? Surgery should be last resort IMO, heard too many horror stories.

I have just had the turps procedure at Mri , have to keep on with the medication for 6 months then hopefully off it .looks to have been successful but will only know for sure when I stop the tamsolosin & finasteride tabs . Biopsy were ok thankfully.

 

[dickie davies]

Had it a couple of weeks ago ,not too painful. Worst bit was lying down with all your bits out waiting for it to happen. Consultant said to think of sitting on a beach in the sun. All i could think of was good job his female assistant was a munter!

I had the same procedure a few years ago
A nurse held my hand and said "what we're going to do is put a numbing gel on the end"
At this point I interrupted her and said
" what you're going to do is stick a big fuck off camera up my dick"
She just smiled and nodded

It turned out, if I hadn't eaten sugar puffs the morning of my pee test, the odds were that the results wouldn't have shown blood and protein in my sample

 

[Bill Walker]

I might come back to this thread in years to come. Right now though I don't wanna think about prostate cancer

 

[Cassandra]

Been told 3 months meds and if it doesn't work then looking at surgery. Told me to cut out coffee. I'm 2 months into meds

Are the meds Finasteride and Tamsulosin? Going back a few years that is what I was put on for an enlarged prostate. The Finasteride shrinks the prostate but I wasn’t checked after 3 months. Long term the Finasteride, whilst being good for my hair, started to have other effects, notably erectile dysfunction so I stopped it - got a row off my doctor for not telling her but it had shrunk the prostate. It also reduces PSA levels so they need to apply a correction factor. Tamsulosin relaxes the muscles in the ”pipe work” and certainly helped me with peeing.
Hope it all works out OK for you.

 

[Cassandra]

I might come back to this thread in years to come. Right now though I don't wanna think about prostate cancer

Oh to be young, footloose and fancy free!

 

[Bill Walker]

Oh to be young, footloose and fancy free!

I wish I was :(

 

[paulchapo]

I have just had the turps procedure at Mri , have to keep on with the medication for 6 months then hopefully off it .looks to have been successful but will only know for sure when I stop the tamsolosin & finasteride tabs . Biopsy were ok thankfully.

Glad to hear you've had the op mate and it went well.

I've been discharged from my consultant back to my GP again and once a year PSA Tests. That's good news but it does fluctuate as this happened to me a few years ago, but after blood in my urine I went back to the consultant. Weird one this time as I went from a PSA reading of 9.8 to 26 which obviously set alarm bells ringing. I had another reading a week later and it had dropped again so I thought all good until a month later I had to go to A+E as I couldn't pee. A catheter in for two weeks and antibiotics cured it and my last PSA reading was 7.8. I'm to be referred back to the consultant if it goes above 10 or I get blood in my urine again, fingers crossed it stays stable now. I've got tamsulosin tablets but I've stopped taking them everyday, just do so if my flow weakens.

As others have said get these things checked out as soon as any symptoms start. You may not look forward to the tests but if you ignore them and it develops into something nasty the alternative will be worse.

 

[SilverFox2]

I think the gist of it is that a psa test for middle aged / older men should be done regularly.
In Spain anything at or over 3.0 is referred to hospital. I get a blood test which includes psa every 6 months to check the radiotherapy results from 3 years ago. I also go to the main hospital every year for checks of recurrence.
The problem of course is that if psa is never checked the prostate cancer grows without symptoms to eventually spill over from the wall nut sized prostate to other areas of the body.
You then get prostate cancer in say the bones or other areas.
So important to keep it under control when it is localized within the small prostate gland. Get your PSA checked out, ask for the test with your regular lipid profile test it is so necessary.