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have you had a positive PSA test

Kind of you to say sean99 and I hope so too but cancer is a pernicious creature and it is always in the back of my mind waiting to rear its ugly head again.
 
Yes , absolutely fantastic to be still posting on here after having a whipple procedure . very encouraging and long may it continue
 
I was diagnosed with a high PSA value at 45. After a biopsy cancer cells were confirmed and I had an operation to remove the prostate at a specialist clinic in Hamburg (Martini, possibly one of the best in the world?).
I was very fortunate to be operated on last in the day and the surgeon had time to remove the slithers of prostate, send them to the lab to check for cancerous cells and make sure enough (but not too much !!!) prostate had been removed whilst I was on the operating table. The nerves responsible for erections were saved and after about 3 months of zero happening after sexual stimulation my erection function returened to normal and I still enjoy sex 14 years later.
The worst experience was having the catheater removed two weeks after the operation, owh!
Incontinence was a problem for about 6 months after the operation but good physiotherapy (the same as women need after giving birth) to strenghten the muscles in the area of the prostate has virtually resolved this problem. The only side effect I suffer from is an increased tendency to have diarrhea.

My father was not so lucky, at 67 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer after the cancer had already spread to his bones and died after a VERY painful death !

So the messages are,
1) the disease is hereditary, get your PSA checked at 40 if someone in your close family has died from cancer in this area
2) go to a specialist clinic that only deals with this type of operation and you increase your chances of success.

p.s. the specialist clinic I went to had about 20 rooms, the majority of the patients looked as if they were over 60 but two of us were in our forties, so don't leave the PSA check for too long
 


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