stanky wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:24 pm
damn, Prez!
mine's been acting up.
did they let you keep it?
did you do the 'roto-rooter' thing first?
without that gland, how will you know when to get up all night to pee?
If my ego was as swollen as my prostate, i'd be exuding confidence.
best to you. hope your dick is ok.
My PSA had been elevated for years, 6ish, 7ish. Has your doc checked yours? (prostate specific antigen)
Got the prostate biopsy back in December, showed a not terribly aggressive cancer but one involving over half the prostate. Different parts of the prostate are targeted based on an MRI and also ultrasound during the procedure. Cores are taken and the specimen cells classified 1 to 5, 1 being healthy differentiated cell, and a 5 being a really fucked-up undifferentiated aggressive cancer cell.
2s are healthy differentiated cells, 4s are undifferentiated fucked up cells. 3s are right down the middle.
The most common type cell found and the second most common type cell found in the biopsy give you two different numbers, which added give you what is called your Gleason score. You get a 3+3=6, thatś pretty much where the doctors say it´s ok to just keep an eye on it, see what it´s like next year, though you don´t want the prostate biopsy done much, they´ll just monitor your PSA.
Mine was 3+4 =7 in the biopsy, 4+3=7 in the prostate pathology. Not terrible but not good.
Theoretically could have lived with it but it was in over half my prostate. Statistically it would have ended my life before I would have died from something else.
Fairly major procedure, these days done as a laparoscopic robotic surgery, little holes are cut in you, abdomen gets inflated with CO2, and with all the micro instrumentation and tiny cameras the surgeon separates the urethra from the bladder. Urethra runs through the middle of the prostate, surgeon slices up the prostate and removes it leaving only the urethra behind.
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Then the urethra is sewn back onto the bladder. Got to have a catheter stuck up your dick to drain the bladder until the new urethra/bladder sew job can heal a bit, abut a week. Glad to be rid of that motherfucker. Got constipated from all the ocxycontin, too, but over that now.
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/urology/ ... ctomy.aspx
Important thing is that there has been no metastasis/cancer spread. Believe I am a-ok in that regard, bone scan, CT scan, pathology on the chopped-up prostate bits all good.
6⁻8 weeks of taking it somewhat easy, no lifting heavy shit, no strenuous work, plenty of easy walking is the thing to do. Maybe in a year my dick can get somewhat hard again, prostate surgeons try to leave the nerve endings around the prostate intact so maybe get your rocks off again a little someday though ain´t nothing going to come out.
I forget, you are about 74? Prostate biopsy is unpleasant. Judgement call if you want to go through all the procedures. Might just be something you die with, not die from.
But get your PSA checked if you want to learn a little more, it´s a simple blood test, nothing to it.
