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Retzius-Sparing Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

User
Posted 07 Aug 2020 at 11:27

Great news, John.

Remember to stay well hydrated in this heat 🍻

Simon

User
Posted 07 Aug 2020 at 13:39

John

Good news. I sent you a PM the other day but your inbox was full.

Thanks Chris

User
Posted 07 Aug 2020 at 14:08

Super news John it’s great to see happy customers and continuing to thrive. Stay safe and take good care mate

 Carl

User
Posted 07 Aug 2020 at 16:06

Great news and long may it continue.

I have my first post op PSA on Monday Aug 10th. Hoping for the same.

Jim

User
Posted 07 Aug 2020 at 21:25

Great news for you. My husband is day 11 post op. I must confess that all the ultra sensitive, decimal points chat re PSA testing has me bamboozled. Is there a way I can find out what testing our local hospital has or should I just relax?

User
Posted 07 Aug 2020 at 22:49
Brilliant
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 08 Aug 2020 at 07:01

Lexi, if your results are more than 1 decimal place they are "supersensitive" eg <0.03 or <0.008 are all "good" super sensitive results. If it'd only 1 decimal place eg <0.1 it's good but not supersensitive.

Be careful with that G5 in your Gleason score early treatment of any relapse detected by supersensitive testing could be beneficial. A good example is Ulsterman. Bolinges approach is also valid but less so the higher the Gleason IMHO. I have recently switched to the Bolinge method BUT I am 5 years down the line and G6. Unfortunately there is no one size fits all in PCA and no one should ever think they are cured until they die of something else!

User
Posted 08 Aug 2020 at 09:10

Excellent news. 

Ido4

User
Posted 08 Aug 2020 at 09:17

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
26 month post-op PSA test = <0.1 “undetectable”, here in Coventry yesterday. 

Excellent news indeed. 😃

_____

Two cannibals named Ectomy and Prost, all alone on a Desert island.

Prost was the strongest, so Prost ate Ectomy.

User
Posted 08 Aug 2020 at 11:18

Good to hear

User
Posted 08 Aug 2020 at 13:41

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

John

Good news. I sent you a PM the other day but your inbox was full.

Thanks Chris

Have never been able to work out messages on this bulletin board, but you can email me at re.vision@btinternet.com

Cheers, John

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 17:38
Results from PSA test yesterday arrived on my iPad this morning. Still undetectable after 2 1/2 years, despite the discovery of some lymph node involvement during the post-operative biopsy.

Hayley the vampire at the chemist was a little off her game yesterday, maybe because it was 07.00. I have to laugh when they say ‘You’ll just feel a little pinch’ or ‘a scratch’ when they’re sticking a bloody big needle in your arm.

I like to watch and the vampire was poking around and delving deeper and getting no blood out.

‘Have you had a drink today’

‘Why, does that make a difference?’

‘Yes’

‘OK, I’ll drink six pints before I come next time!’

Try arm two. More pinching and scratching and poking and delving. No good. ‘I should send you to hospital as we’re only allowed two attempts, but let’s try arm one again’.

Success!

I’ll take Hayley some chocolates and a bottle of Big Tom Bloody Mary mix before Christmas!

Thanks again to Professor Whocannotbenamedhere.

Cheers, John.

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 18:05

Great result John.

Some of my best bruises appear after they've been fishing. 

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 18:24

Great news John

i bet you were the model patient 🤪

like you I’m not too bothered with needles after the epidural. That set a new baseline for me...although not as painful as when I jumped on a 6” nail from a tree. Lifted my foot and the wood it was attached too came up with it 👀🥴

Enjoy tonight’s celebratory rehydration tipple 🍻

Edited by member 01 Dec 2020 at 18:27  | Reason: Not specified

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 20:21
I have recently developed a condition which the Dermatologist diagnosed as an incurable benign condition called ‘Senile Perpura’.

‘Oi, who are you calling senile?’

Dermatologist: ‘Anyone over fifty’, with the result that my arms are always riddled with bruises, notwithstanding phlebotomy wounds. I always tell anyone who asks, that Her Loveliness (40 years of being unmarried this month) has been abusing me...

Symantec: As I have said before, my surgery, including the spinal anaesthetic (are you sure you had an epidural?) was virtually painless!

Cheers, John.

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 20:57

Rude not too really...I would have done exactly the same. 🤪

The spinal thingy might have been spinal anaesthesia 🤷🏼‍♂️👀. Went in with a large needle above the lumbar area. Local anaesthetic took the edge off the pain but I did feel the dragons claw when they asked me to lean back slightly into the needle under the careful guidance of medical staff holding me while sat on operating prep table. More pressure than pain. Following this the team were keen to lay me down as everything below the area loses feeling apparently. As soon as I was horizontal the magic drugs were pumped in and I noticed the specific phases of going under which I narrated in detail 🤖. Next thing I knew....three hours had passed I waking with oxygen masks and no prostate. The words ‘were there negative margins’ took two attempts to mumble out 🤔🤠😜Next question which I didn’t verbalise were about any loss of length 🥴

 

Edited by member 01 Dec 2020 at 20:59  | Reason: Not specified

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 21:01
Poor Hayley :-(
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 01 Dec 2020 at 21:08

Great result 👍🏼

User
Posted 02 Dec 2020 at 23:53

Long may it be undetectable

User
Posted 03 Dec 2020 at 11:26

Great result John. 

Ido4

 
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