Thanks all I passed on your replies to him. I sure don't understand it....
As you can see I'm an old timer here who hasn't been here for awhile. I was one of the early guys who had TFT successfully done 13+ year ago. Thus I'm really out of the loop now on PCA. I'm asking...
Hi Dave I'm happy to see you're still around. You are one tough SOB. I really don't think about PC much anymore. A golf buddy was just diagnosed with a Gleason 7 and I was giving advice only to...
oldbeek thanks for the advice. Being you had severe arthritis at a young age indicates to me most likely you have a different arthritis than I do. I just have the common osteoarthritis. My cartilage...
Tud I think you have way overpaid now with your assistance and comfort given than what you received here. It don't surprise me my tft hasn't been too popular. With 20/20 hindsight I'd probably...
Purg, It's wonderful to see you're still here. Parkinsons now? Man you just can't get a break. I admire your fortitude all these years. I doubt I would stay as tough as you have displayed. Was your...
Damn Tud you're stilI here? I haven't looked in here in ages. I thought you would be gone. Is Purgatory still with us? My cryosurgery was so successful I rarely give my still working but smaller...
True in the past under orders from this sites owners any pot threads or posts were deleted upon sight. Mine being a few of them. But common sense has risen it ugly head here recently acknowledgingly...
My life is not only easier but better because I too live in the free state of Colorado. As far as my opinion of the original "study" here I find absurd when you take in the millions who have smoked...
As someone who had focal treatment 8 years ago the only side effect I have is perhaps a 60% loss of ejaculant volume and a much smaller but still working prostate. My PSA bounces between .12 and .32...
I was involved in a clinical study for TFT eight years ago. The results were a 100% success and since I have remained the most successfully treated man on this site....
I have used all day chemist in the past and I heartily recommend them. I also have turned on a few friends to them who are still using them and are completely satisfied. As far as Avodart goes...
Thanks Tony and Dave. Nice to see some of the old timers still check in occasionally. Time does move on and I check in here less and less too. Life is not all good as I have developed an arthritic...
What a long strange trip it's been. Hard to believe it was 8 years ago I was being told I must have a death wish rejecting radical surgery for the all so risky TFT. Meanwhile you have to hand it to...
My 8 year checkup and I have to say my TFT was a complete success. My PSA was .18 up from last years .16. As my urologist says something will kill you off in the future but it won't be PCa....
Dr Crawford at CU Med Ctr. one of the best in the country....
Funny how my treatment 8 years ago is now the new frontier. I remind people I was #57 in a clinical study. My doctor who has now done over 700 procedures most cryo some laser when asked why it isn't...
It's too simple. No million dollar machines are used or needed. It just uses a brachytherapy grid to locate and later treat with. The only thing my insurance company initially balked at was the 3D...
I was #57 in the TFT clinical trial. He's done over 700 now. I'm not sure how many by laser. the majority were cryo. So as successful a treatment was mine I asked why this isn't a more available...
I had this done by cryosurgery. Below is the link when my doctor did it by laser. http://www3.uch.edu/uchinsider/laser prostate surgery.pdf ...
I'm living proof it can and has been done. For me it was 7+ years ago and wasn't surgically but frozen off. My last PSA was .22 (3/2015) and I do have a working prostate....
Once again I don't have a problem there as the tank fills easily on autoset....
No key problem here....
Before the Tundra I had a 1997 Dodge Dakota which was a size larger than the Tacomas back then. Now it's only a little bigger than the Tacomas. The only complaint I have about the Tundra is it goes...
I bought new and still own a very rare 2003 Tundra Stepside. Did you ever see one of those? The bed and rear end are entirely different than the normal Tundra....
I've been saying it's been dated for awhile now....
I took it before all four of my biopsies. I never had a problem....
1a. Abbey Road - Beatles If for nothing else "I want you" for a song to sum up and end the band with. 1b Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin This album was released a few days after I got out of the army....
halbert first of all I see no mention of being bullied by unethical doctors in this thread. Many doctors have pressured patients into quick decisions but I believe most have done so for that's what...
My advocacy is where it is now after looking in here for near 8 years. In that time I've seen AS become more and more accepted. Hell when I first came here unless you chose radical surgery everyone...
Let me put it this way. I see little difference in the fear and anxiety one experiences waiting for that 3-6-12 month psa blood draw between those on AS or post treatment. Fear is fear and in truth...
I never could understand the not wired "Get it out of me mode stat!!!" mindset that many profess to having. For as time goes by there's little difference IMHO between AS and the anxiety of all those...
The headline of this thread is as clear as it can be. Especially one would think in a PCa forum. This confirms what many of us have believed for years in my case the last 7-8. That said what was once...
I doubt he meant the TFT will be done two days after the 3D biopsy. Just those are the days those procedures are scheduled on. I first arrived on this site actually favoring surgery. Unlike many at...
Two days??? Something isn't right there. It's SOP after a normal 12 needle biopsy to wait at least 6 weeks before most treatments. Although 3D mapping saturation biopsy goes through the perineum and...
I have. Never a day of incontinence. No effect on erection other than usual age. Only side effect has been a 60% loss of ejaculant. And yes all options remain if I have a reoccurence...
I had TFT (targeted focal therapy) done 8 years ago and I remain the most successfully treated man on this site. It was done by argon tipped needles although my doctor who is also the director of...
Add another miracle supplement to the only produces more expensive urine group. I am not surprised....
The best PCa clinic in the state is at CU School of Medicine in Aurora, Co. That where I wound up finally being treated. Dr Crawford is one of the best in the country. Go talk to them about best...
Check out generic Proscar which is Finasteride. Very similar to Avodart and it's cheap. I think there's an enzyme difference, both it and Avodart shrink the prostate by supressing the DHC hormone. ....
Welcome Steve, another ex-Clevelander here. East side Mayfield High graduate. Lived in Colorado now for years. Back in the late 80s I was called Uncle Traitor by family for being a Broncos fan. Seen...
I'm so sorry top read of Zufus' passing. He was one of the early posters who questioned what was then the norm. He fought the good fight and will be missed....
I highly recommend Drs Crawford and Barqawi at the University of Colorado. Dr Crawford is one of the top 10 urology doctors in the USA. with a background also in radiation and urologic oncology. Dr...
The main reason my TFT is not more available according to my doctor. There's not enough money in it. That says it all about the sorry state of US Medicine....
My favorite QB even though I'm a Bronco fan. he should be in the HOF...
Hey Earl I'm a rarity here. I'm one of the two who had focal ablation. I'm also one of the two most successfully treated guys on this site for over seven years now. It's impossible to tell if you're...
Jim congratulations from another member of the class of '08 who rejected the gold standard and lived to talk about it....
I grew up in Cleveland. Just go back for wedding and funerals....
My doctor was the first to do it for PCa. I had it done, not by laser but by cryo seven years ago and remain the most successfully treated man on this site....
I lived in Colorado Springs For 5 months back in 1971 when stationed at Ft Carson. It's where I etsd. I live in the Denver area now. There are fossilized dinosaur tracks just east of the Red Rocks...