Hi again. I am now 10 weeks post surgery and heading for my 51st birthday. Continence surprisingly good with just the odd leak when I am tired. Surgery was not nerve sparing so I am doing my penile rehab with the vacuum pump and hoping the creams will work rather than having to inject!!!!
The six-week post-op feedback wasn't much fun. I was 'upgraded' from G8 to G9 which was a bit chilling. Cancer had left my prostate and spread to nearby tissues and my margins were positive which wasn't what we wanted to hear. It was in the nerves on both side and in one of my lymph nodes - again, not what we were hoping for. Finally, my post-op PSA was 0.05 which we were told was 'above what we would want to see'.
I am now on the three-month PSA tests until I reach the magic 0.2. Does anyone out there have any idea of how long I will be in this kind of state of limbo? I am a realist and would just like to have a clue of what sort of timescale I am looking at before the next treatment might happen!!