Prostate cancer

Derek1952

Three people have recently have announced they have Prostate cancer.Nick Owen Simon Jordan and Andy Taylor Duran Duran.More people seem willing to talk about it now.I was diagnosed in2019.But was told I would

 die with it,not of it.Now 80 so fingers crossed the three monthly injections will keep me going for a few years.

Wheresmeticket?

Derek1952 said:

Three people have recently have announced they have Prostate cancer.Nick Owen Simon Jordan and Andy Taylor Duran Duran.More people seem willing to talk about it now.I was diagnosed in2019.But was told I would

 die with it,not of it.Now 80 so fingers crossed the three monthly injections will keep me going for a few years.

Thanks Derek.  How did you find out - a routine screen, noticed symptoms or??

Derek1952

Doctor phoned me after a routine blood pressure test and said my P.S.A was a bit high 112 so I should see someone about it.After tablets for two months then injections

 ever three months and still having them.P.SA went down to 0.14.It has gone up a little but  in July was tolld it is normal.4.5

shine166

Simon Jordan just had it, only found out as someone told him to get a blood test as they had recently been unwell. He literally had a op 2 weeks ago, heard him talking about it on the radio, had absolutely no symptoms. Booked to get my bloods done that same day.

Derek1952

Hope you are ok!

T_C_E

During my time away from Charlton I always used our @Tracey Leaburn’s call to to arms with her test day to make an appointment to get tested by my GP. I happened to be with my wife at the surgery for an appointment for her when she reminded me to make an appointment. I trudged up to the fearsome looking receptionist and whispered I needed a blood test for Prostate when she asked why did I think I needed one, struggling with a medical reason I simply said I hadn’t had one this year, I was then told to see my GP as that was hardly a good reason.
Telling my wife this she stormed the reception desk saying, if she’d requested a smear test would she have questioned it as it was just a stamped form for our cottage hospital 100yards away?

Without another word my wife returned to her seat, when several women in the waiting room joined the now public debate all agreeing “it’s hard enough to get fellas to the doctors without her attitude “ the receptionist slunk off leaving her pal to man the fort while the GP agreed to my request. 

So much to be grateful to Tracey for at this club and making us more aware of this horrible disease has to be top of the list. 

hmmoore

Do get checked everybody once you turn 50. I had a yearly PSA blood test and at 55 was told I had prostate cancer but at the lowest level. I had a biopsy to confirm this. Unpleasant/uncomfortable but not exceptionally painful and lasted just 10/15 minutes or so under a local anaesthetic. I drove home. I was told that they would just monitor me with 6 monthly blood tests and yearly MRI's for up to 10 years or longer if it does not advance. They thought it had advanced after my last recent MRI (5 years later) so I had another biopsy last month. Turns out it was just inflammation and the cancer is the same as was. I'll now have another blood test in 9 months time and another MRI in 2 years!
The point is that I am now in the system and whenever something needs to be done, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or an operation, it will be in plenty of time and the cancer will be dealt with. It won't kill me, because I caught it super early. Net result, I have not lost a winks sleep and don't even think about it until I need to book the blood test etc. The blood test btw is just like any other, in and out at your doctors in seconds with the results a week or so later. The MRI is a non intrusive scan. I hope this helps anyone who thought the process was more unpleasant than it actually is. I was, of course, fortunate to catch it early.
As Nike would say.... Just do it.
Glad to hear you are doing ok Derek.

Derek1952

The injection iam having is Zoladex whch reduces the Testosterone and sometime makes me feel anxious and at times want to cry.Especially when I first wake up.

The nurse told me it always better when the testosterone builds up in your body.Then I feel ok.

thickandthin63

Thanks to the Charlton initiative,I found out very early that I had prostate cancer,Now 3 years after treatment finished,I have 6 monthly routine blood tests and so far all is fine.I had no symptoms,this cancer is a killer because you often have no reason to suspect a problem.So gents,go for routine tests,have someone stick their finger up your rear end,better than dying.