Good luck with your recovery as well. Fingers crossed all around for good results for everyone.
Prostate cancer; what a pisser. A great and good fortune to all of us experiencing this crap!
A da Vinci surgery robot is a bit bigger than R2-D2 but not nearly as cute.
Again, to all those bravely working through their treatments, a bow of respect and a salute of hope. As if we didn’t all have enough to deal with these days, without the betrayal of our own bodies! Now excuse me, I’m on the line with a Dr. Frankenstein, I think I may need more parts soon.
Some nice pre-holiday news: My latest PSA remains ultra-low at 0.04, so still no signs of recurrence. Which is nice, since I had a Gleason 4+5 lesion which was fortunately confined to the prostate. Did the radiation/hormone blocker treatment back in 2023. My 10 year chance of dying from this cancer is around 12%, so most likely something else will get me first. I’m ok with that.
Love to hear great news
This is great news. How many times a year do you get tested?
My blood test in January 2nd, hopefully the results will be available fast and bigger hope, the number will will be very low. I only started getting any anxiety about this again, in the last few days. I guess now that it is getting closer to the test day.
Glad to hear this! 
You’ve always been one of my favorites. 
Off topic:
When are you going to write a book about your life? Especially your experiences as a prison doctor? I can see potential there as a TV series – calling Dick Wolf!
My update is I’m 6 weeks post-op, and pretty well healed up. Recovery has been uneventful and somewhat brisk but I’m on the young side (50) for this. The biggest annoyances were a week of the catheter, and now I’m still peeing about ever hour and a half in the middle of the night. Luckily, I fall back asleep quickly.
Pathology came back: lymph nodes, vesicles, etc., negative for carcinoma. The cancer in my prostate was actually downgraded from a 4+3 Gleason to a 3+4 Gleason. So yay. That was the big thing!
Other than the urinary stuff which is more an annoyance than a real discomfort, I’m fine. I even have erectile function already and everything works down there. That was a big stressor for me and why I put off surgery for a year to “wait and see,” but I still opted surgery over radiotherapy as in my specific circumstances, it seemed the rational thing to do with all the information available, and this was the guidance of my urologist.
Got my follow-up PSA test three days ago and 0.01, which is to be expected given the lack of a prostate, but it’s not a given, and scores can tick up suddenly or over time and indicate something going on.
Good news, @Qadgop_the_Mercotan, and sending support to everyone navigating through treatment and recovery.
Yay for good news!
Hooray indeed!
This is good news is, if you remember from the other thread, my diagnosis and treatment has been the same as yours. I have six months left on the hormones
Let’s keep the good news coming!
And while I don’t share similar medical concerns with @What_Exit right now, I totally get how the anxiety rises as events approach. If it’s far enough in the future, you can just keep the worries over there somewhere. Even mundane things can assume massive proportions as they approach. Lots of sympathy for that anxiety from me.
I’ll go every 6 months now that I’m over 2 years out from the end of radiation and 9 months out from hormone blockade.
I remember it well. Congrats on your progress. I really started feeling better once the hormone blockers ceased. By 6 months after stopping them, my androgen levels had returned to normal. I also returned to my previous level of near baldness but my beard came in thicker. Body hair is slowly returning too. Other things have returned too, gladly.
Thank you my friend
I believe I said this upthread, but I’ll repeat because it’s that important.
Thank you all for taking the time to go through the difficulties of treatment, as well as all the appropriate followup. I have family who are too reluctant to do this, and it’s a pain-point in our family.
So thank you for giving your friends, family, and internet weirdos like us the continued benefit of your existence.