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It's Official I have Prostate Cancer
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How interesting that we both got our RP done a day apart! Given that, though, how can you know he didn't get good margins so soon after surgery? In a span of ~2 weeks I would think it unlikely that the spread hadn't already happened prior. With Gleason 9 grade 5 that's pretty serious PC, the chance it spread seems like it would be high regardless of margins.
I attribute my continence to two things: the technique my surgeon used on my urethra and hammering my core and pelvic floor for three months religiously before surgery. I may have been fine regardless, but I hedged my bets.
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Can you tell me how your core exercises? Because I'm still incontinent after surgery, and I really want your guidance.
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My surgeon told me that he got clean margins immediately after surgery. Obviously until the surgical pathology came back and showed he didn't get clean margins, I had hoped that he was correct but I now know that his statement was premature. My surgery was complicated by the fact that 3 months earlier i had laparoscopic inguinal hernia and umbilical hernia repaid with mesh so he could not take a chance and disrupt the mesh to do lymph node dissection. I know I need to be patient but it is hard not knowing what my future holds. I am struggling with the Kegel exercises and remain incontinent. I wish I could say after ~3 weeks I am seeing less incontinence but not the case. You were smart for hammering your core and pelvic floor before your surgery. I was not so smart. where was your RP performed? Mine was at Mayo in Phoenix.