I haven’t posted for a while but following completion of OH’s treatment I have a few questions for you brilliant people!
OH has just completed 6 rounds of radiotherapy following 6 rounds of chemo which finished in October. The docs said the chemo worked well and the sternum is ‘healing’ although we didn’t really know what this meant. Also lymph nodes back to normal size.
He’s feeling tired and has some usual symptoms mainly urinary and bowel related but he also has leg and hip aches. Is this normal and could be due to the radiotherapy - he didn’t have this after chemo? Obviously as he is g10 I’m worrying it is down to the cancer in his pelvic region.
The ‘what next’ is a big question and one we are not really wanting to face. Docs said they won’t scan him again and so we will be on the rollercoaster of PSA tests. First one is next week. In October PSA was 0.1. Would we expect to see a fall after radiotherapy or I have read it sometimes causes a slight rise? I assume he is then off the appointment list at the hospital until the PSA changes?
He has only just been prescribed a pump and medication to help erections. Is this too late to have any effect given that he hasn't had any for months now since the start of HT? I have been trying to advise the ‘use it or lose it’ message but it took him a long time to mention it to the docs and given the months of treatment this is understandably the last thing on his mind - although not mine unfortunately but I fear that boat may now have sailed.