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Well I got diagnosed with cancer back in November 2009.............started finding it difficult to walk on occassion..........stupid local doctor said it was osteoarthritis and treated me for that for 3 months before I has a serious attack on a Friday which lasted to Monday.........(no sleep, no sit, no stand, no walk, just pure bloody agony)
Went to hospital and was admitted straight away and was told it was prostate cancer......................only it was advanced and the cancer has moved out of the prostate and into the bones.
I have it in both shoulders, both hips, both rib cages, and in 2 spots around 2" above my knees.
Treatment is hormone treatment and I am responding very well.............but it makes you moody as sh!t...........and I have been picking on the wife a bit until I realised that this has been scaring the daylights out of her!
Had all sorts of guesses as to longevity and life expectancy too but that has finally settled down as well.
I was originally advised that I had 2 years to live but in the past week I was advised that due to my excellent response to this current treatment it would be 5 to 7 years before any serious operational type symptoms show in the bones so that has put a spring back in the step I can tell you!
My original PSA count was 475 but recently went down to 75 and is probably lower since my last blood test.
A healthy prostate has a psa count of 3.5, a sick prostate is around 6 and I was 475......................the biopsy found cancer in each of the eight samples.
So guys I am putting this up to all of you that are 50 and over to go and get a check up............its undignifying for a man to do this but it can mean life or death.
Hope this helps Ozroder
Went to hospital and was admitted straight away and was told it was prostate cancer......................only it was advanced and the cancer has moved out of the prostate and into the bones.
I have it in both shoulders, both hips, both rib cages, and in 2 spots around 2" above my knees.
Treatment is hormone treatment and I am responding very well.............but it makes you moody as sh!t...........and I have been picking on the wife a bit until I realised that this has been scaring the daylights out of her!
Had all sorts of guesses as to longevity and life expectancy too but that has finally settled down as well.
I was originally advised that I had 2 years to live but in the past week I was advised that due to my excellent response to this current treatment it would be 5 to 7 years before any serious operational type symptoms show in the bones so that has put a spring back in the step I can tell you!
My original PSA count was 475 but recently went down to 75 and is probably lower since my last blood test.
A healthy prostate has a psa count of 3.5, a sick prostate is around 6 and I was 475......................the biopsy found cancer in each of the eight samples.
So guys I am putting this up to all of you that are 50 and over to go and get a check up............its undignifying for a man to do this but it can mean life or death.
Hope this helps Ozroder