Hello Jehfly, welcome to the forum. The 'pump' is just a suction bulb with a one-way valve that has a slow leak,. When you squeeze the bulb the fluid is forced out through the one-way valve into the...
Hello Mr. Potato Head, Welcome to the forum. Glad you found us hope we can help. I've started a new thread for your question. It's a little bit confusing for members to respond to questions posted to...
Please welcome new member MrPotatoHead who posted to an old thread asking for member's experiences with epididymal cyst removal (or spermatocelectomies). He said: I know this thread is old but I'm...
Hello Mr Fred CB, First thing: Welcome to the forum. We're glad you found us. Second thing: The way the AMS 800 is designed the most likely failure mode is for the cuff to fail open. The cuff around...
Dave, I am another guy who is ten years out from surgery and radiation and eight years out from 24 months of ADT. I've been pretty much undetectable except for one small but detectable PSA result...
I'm not aware of any reason you shouldn't take it, but I'm just some random guy on the Internet and there is no actual medical advice to be had on this site. It's a question for your doctor. Do talk...
Those of you who have been around the forum for a while may remember 142 who was one of our moderators. He'd already been a mod for some time when I signed on as an additional moderator to help out....
Bob, The relationship between prostate surgery, trimix, and Peyronie's Disease is complicated and no one is entirely sure how it works. For one thing, nobody knows whether the injections cause PD, or...
Bob, The two ED therapies that might work for you at this point are injections and a penile implant. A normal erection is caused when the erectile nerves stimulate the release of Nitric Oxide into...
Hi. I am the moderator who doesn't come around that much anymore. Ten years ago tomorrow I had my prostate removed. Post op pathology was fairly alarming and so I also had adjuvant radiation and two...
You'll want to get that fixed. I'm good with the find-a-new-doctor theory -- your current doctor hasn't exactly covered himself with glory here -- but once you find that new doctor it will be prudent...
A better theory is that when you have an erection -- even part of one -- it slows down the rate at which the blood in the penis is washed away. When you inject into a semi-hard member the medicine...
Your symptoms sound like prostatitis. Most guys who come to the forum with those symptoms are worried that it might be caused by cancer. The thing is, prostate cancer seldom has any distinctive...
PepeDee: I got curious about how a Navarre drain differs from a Jackson Pratt drain so I did a bit more Googling. There seems to be quite a bit of info online about the JP drains but not so much for...
Hello PepeDee, welcome to the forum. Glad you found us. I did a bit of searching through old threads to see if I could find anyone with problems similar to yours. We get reports of problems with...
Our Friend, There is never any particular reason to say goodbye on this forum. Unless you sign up as a moderator there are no rules for how much you should participate. It's OK to only stop in when...
Tom T: I think the "pump" he was talking about is a Vacuum Erection Device (VED) not an implanted penile prosthesis. Rich: Vacuum Erection Devices almost always "work" for some slightly disappointing...
Stephanie, Like others have said, COBRA is a sensible short-term option for continuing his insurance now that he has been laid off. It will continue his same, exact coverage for up to 18 months. I've...
While I do like to see off topic threads identified as such in the title I don't find the level of off topic threads here excessive. Since everything is political these days, anyone who writes an...
Cwkr: Are you a generally lucky guy? Because guys who do well after prostate surgeries do at least as well as guys who have other forms of treatment. Being in generally good shape before surgery...
Hello Dionysus, welcome to the forum. Glad you found us but sorry you found yourself needing to look. I take it that your local uro checked for a urinary infection. Sometimes am infection can make...
It sounds like you have probably hit two out of three of the trifecta. It'll take a while, probably, to see if you can finish the three. You're doing great so far. Congrats....
Jack, It is my impression, based on no particular research that the optimal duration of ADT depends on the sort of doctor you ask. For some reason radiologists seem to recommend shorter androgen...
Jack, Logo is right that in the end you have to find a doctor you trust and then trust the doctor you have found. But if it helps you to have the opinion of some random guy on the Internet, I will...
One thing I found handy was 'convertible' hiking pants that have a zipper at the knee to change them into shorts. If he straps the catheter leg bag to his thigh the knee zipper will be at just the...
Hello Riverman, Welcome to the forum. How long has it been since your prostate surgery? It's pretty normal for everything about your body to be a bit off for the first six months or so. If your...
Recovery of erectile function after prostate surgery often takes a while. There are a few guys who are lucky and never have a problem but more typically recovery will come slowly for up to two years....
I've had an AUS for 6 1/2 years. I had it installed at the same time as I had my umbilical hernia fixed and I can't really speak to the recovery from the AUS since it pretty much got lost in the...
All the phosphodiesterace 5 inhibitor drugs tend to work or fail similarly. They all do the same thing, more or less, but have slightly different side effects. Cialis works about as well as the...
There is a rule of thumb for recovery of continence after RP. It's all about twos out of threes. It goes that two out of three guys will be dry after three months. Of the remaining third, two out of...
Steve, Talking to your oncologist about your muscle loss is certainly a good idea and (s)he can probably recommend a physical therapist to help you find a feasible exercise regimen. Often the leg...
Logos: There are a number of ways to measure body fat and most of them involve some kind of "machine." It's hard to argue that a measuring tape is a machine but a skin-fold caliper is sorta-kinda a...
Jeffrey, It is in his late 50s when a man's interactions with his doctors starts to change. When he was younger the doctor would do some tests for his annual physical and run through the checklist --...
Jeffrey, When you find out you have a big problem like prostate cancer it feels good to decide what you are doing right away so you can start to get it behind you. That's perfectly natural, but it's...
Has your urologist tried antibiotics? With your prostate calcifications (stones) it is unlikely that an infection is the only cause of your problems but sometimes prostatitis will respond to...
Halbert's instructions for creating a profile signature are good. I'll only add two things: 1) some people run into length restrictions and have to abbreviate parts of their signature to make it fit;...
GFMPH NY 2021 will be Sept 30 through Oct 3. There is another thread going on about the gathering but I am much too self-important to post a comment at the bottom of someone else's thread and a...
I will be there. I've started a new thread for it so those who are interested don't have to read to the bottom of a long-running thread for the latest information. That other thread is here:...
JNF: Glad to hear you are on the mend. Assuming the positive trend continues you are probably done with COVID. Recent studies out of Israel found that the combination of natural immunity, conferred...
Yuma, Your ability to climax will probably come back. Most guys who have an implant are happy with them. I am fairly content with mine. You'll probably need to give your recovery a bit more time. It...
A previous symptomatic infection provides immunity that is roughly comparable to the mRNA vaccines and, probably, a bit better than the J&J vaccine. None of them is 100%, so for any sufficiently...
Mr Bill: If we moderators find out that you are a Rockport shoe distributor we'll be cross. But failing that, you're fine. Actually, Rockport World Tour shoes are one of my go-to shoes. They are...
The most likely side effects from you one-month shot are not much of anything. Your testosterone will go up for a few days to a week then it will crash to single digits. The only easily-noticable...
Hello Eidolon, I'd like to echo Djin Tonic's request to tell us a bit about yourself and why prostate cancer is a concern for you. Most of our members have been impacted by prostate cancer, either...
One of the things I looked for when I was graphing my leakage was whether I could see a difference if I went a week without coffee. After three or four comparisons of coffee weeks and non-coffee...
It is somewhat useless to compare your numbers with anyone else since, as has been pointed out, everyone's experience is different but it is worth measuring so you can compare yourself with where you...
So you are covered for recliners. That is good. Make sure you can see the television from the one you plan to use during your recovery. Also make sure you have a side table to put the remote on --...
Speaking of cumbersome... There is a way to find all the threads started by any user but it ain't easy. Here's how it goes: 1) Start from the top-level (list of topics) for the prostate cancer forum....
Beazerman: There are a number of combinations of treatments called the "triple play" and they all seem to work well for high-risk men. The three components are 1) some sort of very aggressive...
Can you copy and paste from his patient's portal to a comment here? Make sure you don't include any personally identifying information -- no name, address, etc.....