New diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

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  • Grinder
    Grinder Member Posts: 487 Member
    #22
    No more Bph

    Like your husband, I had RP Davinci surgery, and it has changed my life for the much much better. My recovery was a little slower... my prostate was 250 cc ten times normal size and I knew that going in. But 10 months post-op, I am down to using minipads for about 90% recovered from incontinence, and don't really need those except when I sneeze or cough violently while going long times between pitstops. And I am already about 70% recovered from E.D. even though urologists said this could take 1 to 2 years. The difference between myself and some of the other guys was my severe BPH symptoms and recurring prostatitis besides the PC. That is why for me, RP surgery was the only option. It made a huge difference in my quality of life, and if your husband did in fact have BPH, the surgery has saved him a lot of grief in the future, not to mention trips to the ER, Foley catheters and daily Flomax. Where I am locally, successful RP Davinci surgery has been the overwhelming norm, I had no idea there were so many permanent incontinence and E.D. surgery complications until I found this forum, before that I was a real believer in the surgery. But follow your surgeon's post-op instructions and the suggestions above, and I am confident he will recover from the side effects, and pray the PC is gone with the prostate. Make sure he takes a Depends along when he gets the catheter removed.

  • Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3
    Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 Member Posts: 3,817 Member
    #23
    Old Salt said:

    Thanks for the follow-up

    It appears that the outcome is as positive as can be under the circumstances.

    Great!

    PS: Hopefully, the recovery will be uneventful, but it may take (quite) some time.

    Overall

    All that you report is wonderful, CJ.  20 nodes negative is a very thorough check, and a very good sign.

    I do not rcall any "suggestions" that make the week post-op with "the bag" any easier. But a week is a very short period of time.  My bag did not "hurt" at all,  just extremely inconvenient. My doc gave me a "small" bag for going out to the store with, and a "big" bag for sleeping overnight with. If you have only one bag, ask for another of a different size, which makes getting around more convenient.   It will be gone soon.  And let me say this in advance: Removing the cath is painless, no pain at all.

    Send more pathology analysis results if interested in our take on it.   "No positive margins" and "no perineural involvement" are terms you want to encounter, along with the 20 negative nodes.  Again, it sounds great so far, and you used a great, world-class facility.

    max

  • Rakendra
    Rakendra Member Posts: 197 Member
    edited April 2017 #24
    Diet

    Being as you are a dietician, I am wondering if you have ever considered a Ketogenic diet?  I have done Keto and the more I read, the more it seems to me that Keto is the wayto go for all, but especially for those with cancer.  There are several ways to go Keto, which is 75% fat and 20% protein, but there are variations on how long to go Keto and how often to take a Carb overload break.  I am very sorry that you have had to confront this Pca, but in most cases, it is not as bad as one first thinks, and even the most hopeless cases (like mine) often overcome the Pca and live a long life.  I live in Mindanao, and medicine here is corupt and out of the Stone Ages, so I have no source of information here outside of the internet.  Anyway, best of luck.  It seems that your husbands future is in good hands.  Love, Swami Rakendra

     

     

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