Good evening
I am currently in the recovery stage, day fourteen, of my second round of Docetaxel chemotherapy. My original PSA score was >1000 and I was diagnosed Stage 4 with bone metastasis; after hormone treatment and one round of chemotherapy my PSA came down to 156. My main question is this:
Prior to and during all the treatment I've had for prostate cancer - diagnosis, biopsy, scans, hormone treatment, chemotherapy - I've had zero problem with my prostate or, for that matter, even noticed that it existed. My prostate now seems to realise, after possibly years of growing and lying dormant, that it is being attacked on a number of fronts - hormones, chemo and extreme diet change - and has decided to 'wake up'. There is no real pain just a dull ache inside the 'backdoor'. I am seeing my Consultant on Saturday and will obviously raise this issue with him but wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience? I'm initially treating the as a positive thing in that the cancer is now being 'worked upon' and it doesn't like it. But it could of course be the reverse and that the cancer will fight back aggressively and my
PSA score will rise again.
Any thought and/or observations would be most appreciated.
Boyd