My numbers started out very low from undetectable too .10 3 months later .19 continual checks kept slow slowly gaining to .55 is when I think we decided to start looking and found that the cancer had returned to areas around the prostate pocket and which is also the base of the bladder. I went almost 2 years after being undetectable again and now March 2025 the numbers have started to gain slowly again. In between the end of the radiation and today, I had quite a year of issues mainly 2024. It started with bladder, neck, bleeding, and catheters to be able to keep from clotting. Incontinence issues throughout the year.
Attempted JP drains to drain the areas where the bladder was feeding the fistula to no avail. Another surgery in October to try to fix the bladder neck area that was having all the issues. They tried omental flap to see if it could heal the damage.Through this process, I was taking 68 hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments to see if I could help new blood cell growth in that area that was damaged by all of the radiation. The HBO therapy did not seem to have the results we were hoping for. That is when we made the decision to have the cystectomy which was performed February 28. Very relieved of the painful situations I was having throughout 2024. I still have healing going on but nothing like the issues I was dealing with. To top it off infection from the leaking bladder created bacteria that got into my pelvic bones and was almost disabling. High doses of antibiotics prior to and a six week regimen after surgery into mid April.