Clocknut: re: your previous 2 posts: well said....
Great story! I can't remember anything about shots in basic training in Apr 70. I remember a lot of that experience, but not about injections. But I do remember air guns from somewhere, in childhood...
I don't know who you mean by "former leader ". I can think of a former leader who made sure the vaccines got developed, and took them himself. So you could not mean him, even though he also...
Heck yes I've seen it, many times. I saw it as an RN, mostly working ER. I have seen big strapping men laid out like cord wood when I approached them with, or actually stuck them with, a needle. But...
What Prato said, PLUS: whether you are able to diagnose mets or not, if you are a high PSA G9-10(is that right?) you have a high likelihood of having some buggers which have left the prostate and...
Makes no sense. If possible, find new health care providers....
on 8/17/21, BillyBob said: "Yes, good for you! I was told today that they might be available in my area in a month or so."...
Garyi: WOW!...................
And that is good to know, and is how it should be. It is also either unusual in most of the country or would be recent changes(I have never once been asked that, anywhere, nor did I witness such for...
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Some selections from this even longer article: "To Gatenby's knowledge, no one had endeavored to exploit evolution against cancer in a clinical trial until he developed his prostate cancer...
I heard that this will be approved next year: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2021/prostate-cancer-psma-radiopharmaceutical-vision [/quote]...
Hey Steve, The old PSA mysteries. After multiple years of tests tht always went up, and rising rapidly between the time(several weeks) it took me to get in to see a URO after my referral from PCP,...
Sweeeeeeeet! Seems to be that, all things considered, that is some good news indeed! And hopefully in a few years, we will even have some sort of targeted treatment where the PSMA thing ma jiggy...
I stumbled on this, and thought it was interesting. https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/11/how-urologists-can-be-more-sensitive-to-male-patients.html "Many urologists may not realize that countless...
These days, with half of medical school graduates being women, I think it also odd, maybe even creepy, that a man would pursue gynecology.[/quote]...
GM, yours is a fascinating story. Both your history and now the struggle to get the PSMA due to insurance problems. I am also waiting to get one, I have not heard of anyone locally getting one. For...
Surgeons don't often- seems to me- bring these side effects up pre-op. I don't know why your radiation guy would be blaming the radiation, when it is a well known complication of surgery. At least,...
Bring it on! "Piflufolastat is administered to patients with an IV. Radioactive molecules bind to prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), a protein found on the surface of prostate cancer cells....
Those were my thoughts exactly. The timing seemed rather amazing. It seemed to be very similar to the dangers that suddenly appeared when at least 2 other dirt cheap and widely used medications-...
Stephanie, That breaks my heart. I'm sorry Y'all have had this additional sorrow to deal with. Bill...
Congrats, Beachbum!...
Stephen: 1: I'm sorry this most sensitive scan did not find any cancer for you to treat and 2: I'm glad this most sensitive of scans did not find any cancer for you to deal with. Congratulations, I...
Good for you, HH!...
................................................................................... Wonderful to hear that the procedure was so helpful for you! I admit that a few months in I was already wishing I...
.............................................................. See bold for quick answers/summary Well, I don't know if I have a set in stone definition. Considering that- at least according to the...
Brittany56: "He has an appointment with a physio who specializes in RP recovery later today." YAY! I bet that will help to speed up recovery! Good luck!...
Hang in there! It can sometimes take months even for people who get to where they never need a pad, like me. Some folks are good to go right away, others not. I agree that the...
Good for you, Stephen, and may you get some very useful info from it!...
Steve and Peter, I am similar when it comes to the carbs, my main way to add body fat. Cutting carbs seems to be the only way I can succeed, with the sole exception of fasting for various lengths of...
God bless you and Jeff and may it all work out in your favor!...
Djin, I think you are right! Your BPH, by driving you to a URO, may have greatly improved your odds in the fight against the PC beast....
............................................ Same with diabetes, which worsens the odds for every other cancer, as well as the odds for advanced PC or mortality fro it. But not a diagnoses with PC,...
Since I suffered with prostatitis and later a huge prostate for many years, I wish it had helped me! In fact, maybe the only positive side effect of my surgery was getting rid of the problems my...
Yes, that PSA drop sounds like some serious good news. Already in your favor is how long it took for the PSA to become pesky once again. Based on the idea that whatever might have been left behind by...
Hi MGT, Sorry to hear about your problems, but I can certainly relate. I had a much worse experience than yours, by which I mean surgery was the immediate end in this area for me. Nothing ever...
That is awesome, 16 years! You were a low risk case to start with, and it is a rare person(of whatever risk) who dies of this after so many years of no recurrence. The odds are vastly in your favor....
Well, I'm very familiar with the Tucson area and Mt. Lemon as well, and I love AZ! One extreme to the other, but both have their charms. (spent 4 years in Phoenix, 2 in Flagstaff, plus numerous...
I really enjoyed my recent trip to Iowa/MN/WI(as I previously said, to see my wife's 3 new found 1/2 sisters). We stayed in Iowa City and made daily trips a few miles south to Washington, Iowa. An...
Well, have you contacted a Doctor about this(the vaccine reaction, not the shrunken nuts)? I have just read- BUT I HAVE NOT CONFIRMED SO MIGHT BE FALSE- that Moderna has 3 times the mRNA dose of...
Good luck, ntzguy!...
According to one article, they do suppress the immune system. Perhaps lowering T does that? "In other words, the suppressed immune response caused by medical ADTs block the efficacy of immunotherapy...
I don't think so, at least I can't think of anyone....
Tudpock18, Pretty impressive numbers from Israel....
What do you guys think of this data? Scroll down about 1/3 to where there is a table from "Public Health England", titled "Covid-19 Delta Variant: Hospital admissions and Deaths", then look at the...
Glad to know you agree with me for a change, F8....
I guess my point is, when saying that this is not good news, is that things might yet get worse for the USA, even among the vaccinated, since there are many seriously ill in the most highly...
This is not good news from highly vaxed Israel. I hate to read it: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/coronavirus-who-are-the-serious-patients-in-israel-675924 "As of Thursday morning, there were some...
Very good point, Halbert. I guess I should have included the 1st line of my OP in the title: "And/or, has it been that way for a long time?". I still find it notable that long term FDA scientists...
Of course, since for example Scotland is nearly 100% vaxed, then naturally almost 100% of folks getting, being hospitalized or dying of Covid will be vaxed, right? Still, the numbers are impressive...