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Total inability to have an orgasm post radiation

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 28, 2024 | Replies (39)

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@slick64

I understand your concern and agree that there is a lot of things the doctors don’t tell you or even suggest. Luckily for me, I haven’t had to resort to any aids only Rosie Palm and her 5 sisters. I was highly doubtful that I’d be “normal” but so far the signs are good. I’d say keep researching and keep up treatment and see what happens after the injections are done. I know it seems and looks bleak, but hang in there and stay the course. And while I do have an orgasm, I am nowhere what I was like before all this, if I abstain from pleasure for a few days, I’ll have a small load, if I try daily or multiple try’s, while I’ll be hard, I won’t have a load. Stay the course, take it one day at a time, better days are ahead. Check the Prostate Cancer Foundation website, they have had a few webinars and you can view them. Stay strong Brother and I’ve got your back.

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Good for you, you are absolutely correct that recovery is a spectrum and part of the journey with prostate cancer.

When prostate cancer returned last year, and my first opinion was that there was no chance for cure, the last thing I cared about was sexual function. When I got my second opinion and was told that I would need salvage surgery, salvage radiation, and two years of first and second generation ADT I still didn’t care about it. Now that surgery and radiation are behind me and my care team believes that I have a good chance for cure I care about sexual recovery too.

For reference did you have radiation or surgery? How long ago? If you had surgery, was it nerve sparing?