Prostate cancer

ChicagoBlue said:
Believe it or not, I had saliva gland stones in the left side of my neck/mouth. Made my neck swell like a balloon and the Doctor said “Suck on a sour patch kid!” Worked until it didn’t and that was pretty scary.

Had to have my throat slit, saliva gland removed from inside my mouth and in my neck. 10 days of antibiotics and the next day I blew up like a balloon again.

This time, they took a pint of pink puss out of my neck and put me in the Infectious Disease Quarantine. Because of the antibiotics, they couldn’t get anything to grow in the Petri dish, so I was on the strongest broad spectrum IV antibiotics they had for a week. Doctor told me they would collapse my veins, so to let him know if I get a burning sensation, so they could remove the shunt and put it somewhere else. That happened 4 times in a week and was more painful than the stones!

Had a cruise planned on the Sunday and the flight to Orlando for Port Canaveral was on Saturday. Family left for Orlando without me, but I caught up with them before the ship, with Dr’s orders to see the ships surgeon and get MedEvac’d to St Thomas if it blew up again. They had no idea what the infection was, but it had responded to the meds…so far, so they let me leave.

They sent a message to my ship after about 3-4 days telling me it was Strep that got into my neck cavity and ran wild. Apparently, it’s present in your throat all the time, but you have the immune system that suppresses it there. Once it got into my neck, it wasn’t recognized and went nuclear.

They were as surprised as I was, and we were all glad it wasn’t something that came back or was more serious for me and possibly even 3,000 of my closest buffet sharing friends!

It’s a miracle we can be made and it’s a miracle we make it to old age, because EVERYTHING is trying to kill you all the time and it’s only our natural defenses, lucky genes and dumb luck that allow us to live long lives.

Stay safe & healthy out there!
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Well said and keep well you struggle to believe the crap we can get.
 
I`ve thought long and hard before deciding to post this.

I went to the Churchill Unit at Bolton Royal to find out my results after the MRI and CT scans which followed on from the Prostate Biopsy. My bone scan was clear but as well as finding 8 out of 24 biopsies positive for Cancer I had a lesson on one of my kidneys and something on my lung.

The doctor told me that because of all my ongoing medical problems she feel if I had radiotherapy or hormone therapy I would either not survive the operation or would in fact make my quality of life worse than it is now.

I have a chesty cold at the moment which is getting on my nerves but I have no pain apart from the pain City are causing us all.

I also have a long list of stuff going on besides, so this is just a warning to get checked out as early as you can, especially for the over 50`s. I wish you all the best of luck and ffs come on City.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
I`ve thought long and hard before deciding to post this.

I went to the Churchill Unit at Bolton Royal to find out my results after the MRI and CT scans which followed on from the Prostate Biopsy. My bone scan was clear but as well as finding 8 out of 24 biopsies positive for Cancer I had a lesson on one of my kidneys and something on my lung.

The doctor told me that because of all my ongoing medical problems she feel if I had radiotherapy or hormone therapy I would either not survive the operation or would in fact make my quality of life worse than it is now.

I have a chesty cold at the moment which is getting on my nerves but I have no pain apart from the pain City are causing us all.

I also have a long list of stuff going on besides, so this is just a warning to get checked out as early as you can, especially for the over 50`s. I wish you all the best of luck and ffs come on City.
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Sorry to hear this. I guess you have to trust the doctors - if they think that the treatment will make you worse, given your other conditions, then not having the hormone therapy/radiotherapy is probably the right decision.

Take care of yourself.
 
TShed said:
What pissed me off was I went for a full blood tests as part of an over 65 mot as advised by my GP but had to ask and then qualify why I would also want a psa. Remember I had my psa thru peer pressure due to extraordinary number of friends having been diagnosed. At no point was a psa test ever muted by my GP
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I think they don't want to find more to treat or further examine. Waiting for symptoms is deliberately avoiding the psa test.
It's not as though it needs another blood sample taking.
My 6 monthly blood check includes psa together with lipid profile etc in the same small tube and water check.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
I`ve thought long and hard before deciding to post this.

I went to the Churchill Unit at Bolton Royal to find out my results after the MRI and CT scans which followed on from the Prostate Biopsy. My bone scan was clear but as well as finding 8 out of 24 biopsies positive for Cancer I had a lesson on one of my kidneys and something on my lung.

The doctor told me that because of all my ongoing medical problems she feel if I had radiotherapy or hormone therapy I would either not survive the operation or would in fact make my quality of life worse than it is now.

I have a chesty cold at the moment which is getting on my nerves but I have no pain apart from the pain City are causing us all.

I also have a long list of stuff going on besides, so this is just a warning to get checked out as early as you can, especially for the over 50`s. I wish you all the best of luck and ffs come on City.
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sorry to hear this mate.good luck going forward.
 
SilverFox2 said:
I think they don't want to find more to treat or further examine. Waiting for symptoms is deliberately avoiding the psa test.
It's not as though it needs another blood sample taking.
My 6 monthly blood check includes psa together with lipid profile etc in the same small tube and water check.
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Mine didn’t they took 2 samples
One my full bloods and a second just for the Psa not that it was a big deal or anything
To be fair there was no resistance to doing it just annoyed a bit given the national awareness campaigns that I wasn’t offered it as a proactive process by my gp
 
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