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Recovery after robotic surgery It's been almost a month since I had a radical prostatectomy with the DaVinci robot. Subsequent pathology was very good, very encouraging, cancer wholly removed, very low chance of later complications, etc. How long until I even feel like riding the bike again? I'm a daily rider, commuter, and enjoy log distan... 22 Aug 2008 14:03
Retrograde ejaculation- help I have a prostate operation about a year ago. i am 55 years old. I am having real issues with retragrade ejaculation. I am still sexually active and just cannot adjust to the new sensation. My doc said all would be fine but I was not prepare properly for this. Anyone have similar issues and what are your though... 15 Aug 2008 23:21
Bad News - Interesting Case re. low PSA an false negative I have posted several times in the past when I was first diagnosed, when I recurred, and to discuss various symptoms. I've also reached out for information or thoughts relevant to my very low PSA. Well, I found out this week that I have bone mets and have started hormone therapy. Not the path I wanted to be on (... 27 Aug 2008 20:48
No more Fosamax After taking Fosamax for five years, I stopped last February. I had developed severe heartburn and chest pains during exertion (such as walking and snow shovelling). All kinds of tests (cardiograms, stress test, endoscopy, abdominal ultrasound) were negative. I took daily Nexium for the heartburn and Albuterol inha... 25 Aug 2008 21:40
PSA testing >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/health/12well.html Pure nonsense! Lead-time bias can affect 5-year relative survival statistics. It has no effect on the mortality rate. The truth is that there has been a 37.4% reduction in CaP mortality (1991 - 2005) since the inception of PSA testing. If ... 15 Aug 2008 12:02
Incontinence Surgery... http://www.or-live.com/sentara/2236/ Check out this link. There will be a live presentation on August 21..... Nick ... 14 Aug 2008 20:41
Prostate biopsy--false negative? I have read that prostate biopsy involves about a 25% rate of false negatives. That is, in 25% of negative biopsies, it turns out that the patient has prostate cancer after all. What is current medical practice regarding when a second prostate biopsy is warranted, to make sure that the first biopsy was not a ... 16 Aug 2008 21:47
PCa Conference The Prostate Cancer Research Institute will present: State of the Art Treatments for Early Stage and Relapsed Prostate Cancer Sheraton Gateway - Los Angeles Airport California, USA September 6-7. 2008 Some of the best and brightest will be presenting. For details, see http://prostate-cancer.org/index.html ... 14 Aug 2008 18:38
Hospital Infections Here's something that could affect any of us: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121867229022038907.html?mod=djemEditorialPage or http://tinyurl.com/5rfrk8 I am very suspicious of hospital hygiene. Regards, Steve J ... 17 Aug 2008 03:53
Robotic Prostatectomy For anyone who wants to find out more and see what it looks like.... http://www.or-live.com/daVinci/2269/ Nick ... 14 Aug 2008 12:26 |