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It's Official I have Prostate Cancer
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I'm sorry to welcome you to this terrible club. Be sure to start preparing for the future by getting into better shape, hammering your pelvic floor both through kegels and during workouts, lining up more doctors to get additional opinions and preparing yourself for recovery.
Because most of what you will read and hear will be mostly doom and gloom, I want to assure you that you can come out of the other end of this relatively intact. I got my prostate removed just over two weeks ago, zero ED, zero incontinence and I credit that to a skilled surgeon and spending three months physically preparing for life after prostate cancer.
You can do this, we all all here for you!
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I like you had my RP performed 1/27 My Gleason score was 9 grade 5. While My surgeon told me that he got clear margins, truth is he did not. The Pathology showed that I have a T3a that has invaded outside the prostate. I am working on restoring my continance 3 weeks post op with little success although I am trying to do the kegels. I feel as if I have no control over my voluntary urinary flow as if I am paralyzed but am told this is normal at this time. I am told to wait 45-90 days for a post op PSA to determine whether my levels are detectable or not. My problem is that my pre-op PSA was 2.4 and the PSMA pet scan pre RP showed no evidence of spread yet the Gleason 9 and my T3a suggests metastatic disease so I don’t know how a PSA blood test is going to guide further treatment since I am one of those prostate cancer patients that do not produce a lot of PSA as a marker so I plan to consult with GU oncologists that will think outside the box as I have the wait.
Hello, I'm happy for you.
Can you share Kai Ge's exercise practice and exercise with me?
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Once I get the results of the MRI PSMA I have to meet with the surgeon to review the procedure etc. I will be sure to ask about Kegels and Pelvic floor exercises to prep for the surgery.