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I had a lot of pain after my surgery. They gave me pain pills which helped with the pain. Unfortunately I had no idea that the pain pills would make me severely constipated . And THAT pain was worse than the surgery. I finally got that straightened out. I am incontinent to this day 19 years latter. I had a recurrence of cancer 7 years later. Then 39 salvage radiation treatments. I was cancer free for 2 year and now it is back again growing slowly. I am mow just under surveillance.
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After surgery, it was 3 1/2 years before it came back, Had seven weeks of radiation 2 1/2 years later it came back. At that point, I was put Lupron Which kept me undetectable for another three years.
Now you really have me concerned with your being just under surveillance. With your case history that is a death watch. I just can’t think of any people that had long cancer free days after a 3rd reoccurrence without treatment..
You need to find yourself a different set of doctors, Time to hit a center of excellence. You should probably be on ADT or your cancer is going to come back viciously. It has come back three times. Do they really expect it to not continue to grow after coming back a third time.. If you don’t get put on something after your recurrence following Salvage radiation it is almost malpractice. I’ve heard from people whose urologist did this to them and they just got worse, metastasis don’t wait to attack, they love untreated Prostate cancer patients.