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Serious complications and side effects from prostate cancer treatments
My spouse is experiencing side effects from all the prostate cancer treatments that include radiation to chemo to surgery and hormones and over a period...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 8, 2023
What is radiation like at Mayo Jacksonville?
I have inquired here before about RARP there. But there is now a non-zero probability that I might not be cleared for surgery. In that...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 10, 2025
Why I am glad I chose Proton Therapy (for now). Good, bad and ugly.
My Treatment Decision Journey – Surgery vs Radiation (Proton Therapy Experience) Making the decision about which prostate cancer treatment to pursue was agonizing. When I...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 21 11:47am
It must be my turn
for a diary. These hour-by-hour reviews were a great help & comfort, so trying to give back.5 hours post-surgery....Regular stabbing pain in perineum all day.Morphine...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 29, 2024
Pathology report - how long after RP?
My husband is doing really well after RP last week - no pain, no GI discomfort, walking around, sleeping well. Today, 7 days after surgery,...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 17, 2023
Final countdown to RP on 3/26th and I’m anxious
62yrs G9 no spread. Hoping I made the right decision to have radical surgery. I got diagnosed in mid January and felt I needed to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 22, 2025
Experiences with Gabapentin for hot flashes or Botox for incontinence?
After prostate surgery in 2019 and radiation with hormone therapy in 2022-23, aftereffects of incontinence and hot flashes continue to be intense 4 months after...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 14, 2024
Has anyone tried therapy prior to RARP to prepare for incontinence
I read somewhere where some guys have gone to therapy to prepare for post surgical continence issues with kegel exercises etc. My surgery will be...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 20, 2025
Advice on PSAM-PET/MR 3+4=7
Hello, New to group. HoLEP on 3/27, biopsy indicates 3+4+7, ref to Oncologist who wants to perform a PSMA PET/MR with and without agent of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 26, 2025
Chronic diarrhea after treatment: What helps?
Not a pleasant topic but after prostate surgery and starting my fifth week of radiation I’ve had 3-4 bouts with diarrhea every night. Imodium not...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 20, 2025
Side effect of Radiation +ADT Orgovyx on Sexual function
Can anyone tell me if the combined treatement of radiation and ADT can cause some problem on the sexual function. If so, what to do...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 19, 2025
How long after EBRT does the PSA bounce around?
Hello from Vancouver Island. I had a prostatectomy about three years ago and the PSA went down from 4.0 to about 0.03 after surgery. Within...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 16, 2023
Getting frustrated…JP drain / day 28
Looking for any input anyone may have. I’m 51 yrs old. Tomorrow will be day 28 from having my RARP. Lymph nodes were pulled for...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 27 3:44am
Just got my PSMA scan
Just got back from my PSMA scan. The procedure wasn't as bad as a normal MRI. I don't know anything yet because my urologist has...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 11, 2025
Testicular pain about prostatectomy: Any advice?
Gentlemen,I had a robotic prostatectomy four weeks ago. One week ago I began to have significant testicular pain. Odd, since I did not experience this...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 7 1:50pm
PSA, cancer and life insurance
Hi Have Gleason 6 stage 1 prostate cancer. Have MRI set for sept and Psa test. They want do 3 months after my Turp surgery....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 23, 2025
What supplies did you have ready for urinary incontinence after RP?
Can anyone help with what type of UI supplies my husband may need in the days, weeks following his RP surgery? Best options/brands, what exactly...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 8, 2024
Positive margins
I recently had a robotic prostatectomy period there was no cancer detected in the lymph nodes, Seminal vesicles, and did not appear to be migration....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 1, 2024
My dad's cancer returned and now it’s stage 4 metastatic cancer
Hello,6 years ago my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had prostate surgery. He seemed to have an aggressive form and had to do...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 11, 2024
PSA raising after RP
I had RP (Radical Prostatectomy) surgery 11.5 years ago. For the first ten years, my PSA fluctuated between 0.03 and 0.09. One year ago, it...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 7, 2025