AgsMyDude said:
Whens lunch said:
itsyourboypookie said:
If the president can't detect it early, we are all ****ed.
Pray for Biden
Generally non-symptomatic early.
Mine was a Gleason 10, outside the prostate. 2 lymph nodes affected and on my bladder when prostate was removed. Nothing more than a little blood in my urine and some weird irritation in the area.
I'm almost 11 years in it now and we're just getting into "Hail Mary" territory. Metastasized to several locations.
Prostate cancer isn't gonna get Biden. Something else will. He's 8 years older than me.
Sorry to hear, keep kicking its ass!
Were you getting the psa test? Or any other screenings?
I'm trying to be very aggressive because my dad and all his brothers and their ot it in their 50s. I know they say most men eventually get it, but not that early.
My Dad was lucky enough to catch it before spreading and had his prostate removed to be safe
Mine was a time frame where the medical community had quit recommending PSA tests because of false positives. Maybe it was a fight with insurance that doctors weren't willing to get into.
Hell, when I went to see my primary care provider with my symptoms, I had to insist confrontationally for a PSA test. The Dr. insisted that I didn't have cancer, just a bladder infection and gave me a prescription for Cipro, but reluctantly agreed to the PSA test. Then when the PSA came back at 25, he said it's just a prostate infection. Again saying that I don't have cancer and gave me more Cipro.
Got in to see a Urologist about 3 weeks later and he did a PSA on the spot and it came back at 50 and away we went with positive biopsy a week later.
I did see that primary care provider one last time just to let him know that when a 64 y/o comes in with symptoms like mine, maybe you should take him seriously and treat the patient, not blindly follow some guidelines from wherever. Haven't been back of course.
