Have you had Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer?

JackWest
JackWest CSN Member Posts: 86 Member
in Prostate Cancer #1

Hello all, male in mid 70s here,

Have you had Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer? What is your current status? History. Outcomes? What has changed? Are you cancer free? What is your PSA? How is your sex life? Have ED? Are your ejaculations the same or have they changed? The color of your semen changed. How? Any blood or color? Other male functions changed? Let's share and learn even more. Let's chat away here, there are no wrong answers. Many thanks!

Jack

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  • Steve1961
    Steve1961 CSN Member Posts: 703 Member
    #2

    i had radition treatment at age 57 back in 2018 but I had Cribbform.. at the time they did not know, and they were not sure about cribbiform and I was very reluctant to do radiation but my fear of surgery talked me into it and guess what it did not work the Gleason 4 in my prostate right next to the seeds that were targeted was still there and I had two surgeons. Tell me that they are learning that cribbiform is radiation resistance. The radiation therapy messed up my Bowels I leaked out my rear end for about two months a after my third treatment I could not urinate at all, but I had to go on Flomax and I was on Flomax twice a day after that in order for me to even urinate and now I very, very loose stools because of it I truly believe radiation should be kept as a back up make no bones about it..I know older who fellas mwhomdid radiation and did not have Cribbi form and the radiation treatment worked well anybody thinking about must and this is a big must make sure it is not cribbform. Also, you need to get the space or I did not get a space or and my radiologist suggested against it right then there I should’ve not trusted him. I didn’t trust him anyway, but I did it.

  • Steve1961
    Steve1961 CSN Member Posts: 703 Member
    #3

    mid 70s and the cancer is not suggest that you do radiation because 10 years down the line they don’t know what the radiation can do. It can cause other cancers 10 years line you’ll be in your mid 80s and let’s face it you can’t last forever the surgery that

  • mamakath
    mamakath CSN Member Posts: 7 Member
    #4

    Jack, my 77 yo husband had Gleason 4+4 and PSA 19.6. In August ‘24 he had a HoLep procedure and started Orgovyx the next day. He then had 44 daily radiation treatments. The worst part of that was the requirement of “full bladder, empty colon”. The treatments did not make him sick, despite what we all learned about radiation in high school in the ‘60s! He did get tired in the afternoons. He finished the treatments in April. His first visit after radiation went well and the radiation oncologist was pleased but wanted him to stay on the Orgovyx until October. He goes back to his Doc 10/13. He hopes to get off it at that time. All in all, the ADT has been the worst part. He gets VERY tired in the afternoon, he has bloating, and hot flashes. The only good news is that he has found if he makes himself a root beer float, that stops the hot flashes, and since we live in AZ, anything cool is invaluable! This is a hard thing to go through, but nothing in this life is easy and he did not want the long term side effects of surgery.

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