Re; stool softener. REALLY REALLY GOOD ADVISE ABOVE by the others above! I took pain pills after surgery which worked well on the post surgery pain/anxiety BUT I was not advised and didn't know that...
Re; Kegels. Check out kegels. Many many years prior to my RP in 1995 my GP said to stop my stream while urinating so as to maintain good urinary control as I aged. I did that and after my RP and the...
http://www.firmastore.com/ Check out constrictor BANDS. I found out that the constriction RINGS stretch out fairly quickly so I moved to the constrictor bands. ( Basically wide rubber bands -...
Re; oral meds. If you get them get a few or samples if you can. In my case the oral meds gave me nasty side effects. My vision was affected by seeing purple-pink colors for several hours. If you have...
My rp was in 1995. Gleason 2+1. Gleason lower than a typical gleason of 6. My psa has risen over the 13 years to 0.6. I have not had any furthur treatment so far. In consultation with a doctor or...
A vacuum erection device used with constrictor BAND/BANDS (not the rings) should stop any leakage you describe and give him a sufficient erection. See http://www.firmastore.com/ for a picture of the...
http://www.utoronto.ca/acdclab/graphs/Plot1.gif http://www.utoronto.ca/acdclab/graphs/PLOT2.gif Rp in 1995 psa 7.2 Gleason 2+1 (low Gleason) Present psa is 0.6. I found these graphs years ago in an...
Muse is an insertable ED med. (alprostadil) Edex is the injectable ED med (alprostadil). The trimix you used probably contains alprostadil too. I tried Muse years ago but found out that I could not...
My RP was in 1995 at age 55. Gleason 2+1. (Lower gleason than most others) I was continent four days after the catheter was removed. ( A real plus for me) I attribute this to good advice from my GP...
It has been 13 years and 28 psa tests since my RP. I don't even think about it until a week before the test. Like everyone I was hoping to stay in the zero/less than 0.1 category. As it turned out...
http://www.utoronto.ca/acdclab/graphs/PLOT2.gif http://www.utoronto.ca/acdclab/graphs/Plot1.gif I found these graphs years ago after my RP in 1995. Note ultrasensitive and normal psa graph lines. I...
Ask yourself, maybe look at yourself in the mirror, if you will be able to DEAL (live peacefully) with the fact going forward that the cancer is there, will probably expand, might be close to...
I have described mine as "orange" sized or small "grapefruit" sized! /community/emoticons/tongue.gif With the benefit of 13 years since my RP we still laugh about them. I was not laughing at the...
My psa post RP has risen from less than 0.1 to 0.6 over the last 12 years. My Gleason was 2+1. (Lower than the average psa of 3+3) I have not had any further treatment so far. (advice from two...
The beauty of being 13 years post RP and 13 years older, approaching 70, I can't remember what it was like before my RP. /community/emoticons/smhair.gif With the aid of Edex the orgasm is very...