Hi all
Entering a new world here so starting a new thread.
The Road So Far...
RP Surgery July 2017 with a G7 (4+3) with 3% tumour.
PSA OK until about a month to six weeks ago when I got a 0.16 and 0.17. Result from last week 0.24. Onwards and upwards.
Saw the urology onco today.
No beating about the bush - I will be on 6 months of HT with 6 weeks of RT during the last stages of that treatment.
Very professional but to me a little brisk.
Absolutely refused to discuss PSADT, nomograms, probabilities, outcomes etc. His position was that regardless of the statistics. everyone is unique so predictions are worthless and he treats at the time according to circumstance.
Didn't care what I ate, drank or otherwise did apart from cutting back on the volume of alchohol,
So I have an initial 28 days of Bicalutamide / Dasodex, an intial jab up the bum (a hiuge needle!) with Triptorelin / Decaptyl and then another jab in three months then RT planning.
All the usual side effects explained but he really dismissed the potential of gyno.
Pretty fed up and mentally choosing my headstone right now which is daft but I feel the dice are rolling against me at every step.
Overall I felt I was in a sausage factory, unlike with the surgery.
I may of course be projecting my own fears onto the sitiuation so I will just shut up and soldier on. Not a lot of choice really.
Any advice or rays of sunshine welcome.
P*ssed off Pete