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I got a lower PSA
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Nov 26, 2011 - 8:53 am
It is with joy that I inform my fellow survivors of the last PSA test which come as 0.02 ng/ml (testosterone at 32). This autumn my wife and I took some time to revisit Japan and the places where we lived when all this “saga” of PCa started. We went to Mount Fuji and enjoyed the scenery (autumn colours) and its volcanic waters at the spas in Hakone. I feel that the natural hot-springs have cured (or alleviated) the symptoms of the side effects from HT. No more pain in joints, hot flashes or fatigue. I feel “cleaned” and rejuvenated. Regards to all my comrades. My treatment progress is in these links; |
Joined: Sep 2010
Thank you for shareing the very good news. Enjoy.
Joined: Oct 2011
way to go keep up the great news and congratulations:)
Joined: Jun 2011
congratulations
Joined: Apr 2009
Bathes are a good thing,....which at the least, cuts down on stress.
Joined: Mar 2010
Vasco,
Great news and I hope it continues well. Are the baths you're writing about those hot baths where there are monkeys nearby and sometime go into the water?
I've heard that wine or a good martini also go well with hot baths.
K
Joined: Nov 2010
Kongo
The hot springs with the monkeys are located in Nagano. You may have seen something similar in the region close to the Yokosuka naval base, where I believe one of your ships anchored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGYq61SPPO8&feature=related
Hakone is just at the base of Mount Fuji. Wine and Martinis do fit with the outside natural spring pounds but we enjoyed Sake with “mochi” (rice cake) and mountain vegetables. Well balanced diet with no dairy or red meats. Kind of natural biotic foods.
You would like it too.
How are you doing? Any Symptom?
VG
Joined: Mar 2010
Vasco,
You are right and thanks for refreshing my memory. I took ships into Yokosuka on many occasions and remember something about hot baths and monkeys but that was years ago and at that gentle age mochi and mountain vegetables always played backup to sake and Kirin beer.
Thanks for asking about symptoms. None whatsoever here. I have a six month check-up early next year but so far so good. It's almost like it never happened.
Best,
K
Joined: Apr 2010
No monkey business here....only my best wishes for your continued success and good health!!
mrs pjd
Joined: Apr 2010
BTW, maybe some of that extra radiation floating around Japan from their nuclear reactor event following the great earthquake and Tsunami earlier this year had a beneficial effect on your lower PSA reading! This may give a whole new meaning to “medical tourism/sightseeing.”
OK, OK, I’m just kidding...
Joined: Nov 2010
mrspjd!
That was genius! I am cracking up . . . that is my kind of humor. J
Joined: Apr 2010
Jane,
I cannot tell you how relieved I am to read your post. I had hoped that my tongue in cheek post on Medical Tourism would be taken as humorous and that those who know my writing style and my sometimes warped sense of humor would realize that my take on “medical tourism” in Japan was in no way meant to diminish the devastation and tragic suffering of the people of Japan, their beautiful country, and the lives lost from the catastrophic events in the aftermath of the horrific earthquake & Tsunami in Japan earlier this year.
mrs pjd
Joined: May 2009
Congrats!
lewvino
Joined: Aug 2010
that is great news and i am sincerely happy for you.
Joined: Apr 2010
Vasco-----Great news !!! Way to go !! You've been through the ringer with this pc monster and deserve this good news !! May continued success keep coming your way.
Joined: Jan 2010
Great report and happy for you-B
Joined: Jun 2009
Great news Vasco. Congratulations, you're still a member of the Zero club.
Joined: Nov 2010
I believe the baths played a great part! You will just have to visit more places with them. Recommend Budapest and Iceland. Congratulations, J and T
Joined: Nov 2010
To all friend survivors I send my Thanks for the well wishes.
Mrs PJD and Jane
I cannot access how badly your joke would be taken by the Japanese people afflicted with the Fukushima radiation disaster. However, most of the general public in Japan are aware of the risks and radiation spread and talk openly on the matter. They would take your sentence as a joke too.
Nevertheless, behind any joke there is always a valid sinicism and your “Medical Tourism” is well termed because it is real and it exists.
Radioactivity in very low levels may create health benefits as claimed by scholars (???). The mineralization from the volcanic waters in the spas are well known in Japan and these minerals release very low levels of radiation not harmful to the human been.
In the southern region of Japan, there is a world renewed Hot Spring at Beppu, with several ways of bathing claiming health benefits for a variety of illnesses. The local mineral rich volcanic soils are driving thousands of tourists annually to the place claiming all sorts of cures.
Mud Bath (Doroyu) is said to be effective for high blood pressure, neuralgia and diabetes. Sand Bath (Sunayu) is effective for neuralgia, backache and stiff neck. Steam Bath (Mushiyu) is known to release fatigue by stimulating metabolism and perspiration. Hot Waterfall Shower (Takiyu) is used for massage in joint pains. Etc. Etc.
http://farflungistan.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/best-budget-spa-trip-in-japan-beppu-sand-spa/
Radioactivity and the Benefits is better explained in a paper written by Paul W. Frame, (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), under the title “Radioactive Curative Devices and Spas”
Here are excerpts from the paper;
“....In 1903, the discoverer of the electron, J.J. Thompson, wrote a letter to the journal Nature in which he des