@stu6060

Yep, you're entitle to a "pity party..." We've all had them is my guess at some point in our cancer journey. Then, we pick ourselves up off the floor, dust ourselves off and get about the business of managing and living with our PCa.

These forums are invaluable as sounding boards for our thoughts and ideas, There's nothing quite like the school of hard knocks for "lessons learned!"

There are no guarantees obviously...on Sunday I experienced a sudden onset of weakness, balance and coordination issues on my left side. Immediately my thoughts went to, crap, are you having s stroke!? There were no other symptoms, and they resolved quickly so I went about my day, even went to the gym.

Monday morning I'm taking a shower, and the same thing happens, only very severe. I yelled down to my wife, take me to the ER now, threw some clothes on. They did their thing over three days, CTs, MRIs, CV Echos, labs, jabs, physical exams, consults...Finally, they determined what happened, I was experiencing multiple TIAs, the cause, likely I was under medicated with respect to my blood thinners. My cardiologist had reduced my daily dosage from 5mg 2x daily to 2.5mg 2x a year after my cardio ablation when I had no further episodes, they tested my INR, low at 1.3.

They discharged me, put me back on my original dosage.

If it's not one thing, it's another... ever vigilant!

I do believe thanx to medical research, we and our medical team have more tools in our toolboxes to manage our PCa, albeit with the side effects that go with treatment.