I'm baaaaaaaaaaack...

jo4hn wrote: Been gone for a few days (as if many had noticed). Had prostate cancer surgery last Monday. Pathology study shows I'm clear. Hallelujah. Now then for the message: all you guys get your skanky butts down to the doctor at least once a year for the PSA and the finger wave. Nasty s*it but it may well save your life. Me, I feel like I'm 100 years old but I'll survive this one too.

Glad the prognosis is good. I'm looking forward to my next PSA. Not. Tom

Not to be crude but when you get your rocks off now is it.... poof? Enquiring minds....

Good for you. Rubber gloves and Vaseline can be a life saver. Hope you are up back in the shop soon.

Good to hear your clear. Congrats. Got an appointment with a Urologist myself pretty soon, I'm sure there is a biopsy in my future, but, had em before.

Paul O. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com

All you guys are going about this in the wrong way. I quite look forward to my next PSA test. My doctor always gives me a big smile when she lubes up that finger...

Shop around, there are plenty of good looking woman doctors out there.

Good to know. Let me give you a hint: there should never be more than one hand on your shoulder when they do the exam. Trust me on this....

Amen! Take note guys. This disease is treatable and beatable IF you catch it in time.

I know from experience.

RRP 03/16/2000 and undetectable PSA since then!

Good to hear it is all good... "I think"... was the entire prostate removed?

Funny, you don't look any better. Welcome home anyway.

Bob

OH MEIN GARSHK!!! (der krauten popey) Are you going to get filled with a prosthesis???

Glad your doing ok John!...its sucks, but waaay better than the other options!

Schroeder

Hope all goes well, John.. (no pun intended)

At least now, you'll know whether you're coming or going??

BTW, for those of us suffering through Kaiser for their health care... if you look at the print out that they give you for blood work, it has the PSA on it... For those with Aflec (sp) they pay you like $20 to have a PSA test.. so you know it is important...

I might add that the younger you are when you start getting PSA tests, the better off you are... they use your results as a "base line" to make sure that you're numbers aren't changing radically.. and could save you life...

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

============ Glad to hear you are up and about.... BUT I am a retired Pharmacist and there was a big deal about how inaccurate the PSA test really is not that long ago,..... Think I better do a little research since my results have always been very good.... should have done it long ago but procrastination was always my strong point.

Bob G

on 7/22/2005 1:11 PM Bob G. said the following:

Way too many factors involved in the PSA test debate to cover in one on-topic e-mail let alone an off-topic one.

Suffice it to say that in my case it (PSA screening) likely saved my life and others here probably can say the same.

For more than you ever wanted to know about PCa, visit this site.

It was put together by a gentleman who died a year or two ago. He was diagnosed too late and so decided to make the best use of his remaining time. I, and many others, think he did.

Additional education may be picked up at alt.support.cancer.prostate

That is the reason the exact number is not that important but the change from year to year is of much greater concern.

Lew

PSA is a blood test. I don't want to imagine the method of drawing blood that requires a lubed finger.

Best of luck to you ... looks like you caught it in time. On a sad note, just put SWMBO on a flight to AR this afternoon to see her 56 year old brother who was just diagnosed a week ago with _terminal_ cancer of the prostate ... he never took the time to get a checkup, or PSA, and now it appears too damn late. It's spread and right now they're trying to save one kidney so they can attempt to treat. Two months, to two years on the outside ... too young!

Take care of yourself ...

Reminds me of a hilarious sketch I saw on Blue Collar Comedy not long ago. Jeff Foxworthy was in the doctor's office for an exam, bent over the table in his little gown. The doc was making small talk, then disappeared behind JF, causing him to jump slightly. Then the doc kept getting interrupted by a series of phone calls, always followed by another disappearance and another jump. Then a nurse walks through the door, and with a shocked look on her face asks, "Who are you?" Foxworthy replies, "I'm Jeff, I'm here for a prostate exam". Nurse says, "No, no - who are YOU?", pointing to the "doctor" - who looks around nervously, then bolts offstage.

B.