Been diagnosed oct 2020

I don't think I've seen anyone say that after 2 weeks, but definitely after 6 weeks it's possible. Walking is very important post surgery though, and within a week to 10 days you should be well capable of walking about half a mile (if you were before surgery, that is) although it will be a bit slow doing the "catheter bag shuffle".

Although I was getting thoroughly bored of walking, I did wait the full 6 weeks before trying to ride my bike, and then I started back gradually, trying to keep the first few sessions to half an hour.

My post-operative instructions said no heavy lifting or vigorous exercise (including hoovering and lawn mowing) for 4 weeks (because of hernia risk). I tried a short run at 4 weeks, but I hate running anyway. It made my calf muscles ache, so I didn't repeat it. I didn't like the sound of requiring hernia surgery, so was very careful with lifting for about 2 months.

If you are extremely fit to begin with, it can really help speed up surgical recovery. Also the surgery is a lot easier to perform if you are not overweight. Recovery time will also depend on genetics, diet, age and general life circumstances as well.

I don't think this kind of comment is at all helpful. You don't know how he will feel. You only know how you feel/felt. It's perfectly valid to share your experiences, but trying to project them onto others is a step too far.

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Agreed, the needles for the anti-coagulant injections are so short and fine you can’t really feel the injection, in my case there was scarcely a mark left behind and never any bleeding.

Cheers, John.

Hi Paul.

Thanks for update, don't beat yourself up as you are still in the curative 'camp'.  Move onward..

This is the key question, as Peter posts.

...   Quote ...I'd be wanting to know how confident the surgeon is of taking it all if I was seriously thinking of going that way.

Ask about MRI, location of lesions etc , can clear margins be achieved. Any possible attempt for nerve sparing.      Surgery has served me very well.   Any doubts the pendulum swings towards RT, I feel.  I don't believe any other treatment options are available.

Gordon

Cheers Chris,

Sounds very similar to my situation & I hope your positive outcome long continues.

I start my hormone treatment this Fri in daily tablet form & also an injection next Mon, I'm a bit concerned it's gonna play havoc with my system for a bit but I'll take what I can get to keep the cancer at bay. 

The consultant explained its required to halt my testosterone as this is what feeds the cancer whilst I wait for my RP/RT to begin, but the pandemic is causing uncertainty with the timeframe & I know there are other unfortunate people been waiting on their treatment due to this.

I'm a pretty positive person who will fight this tooth & nail anyhow and encouraging posts like yours just show me why 👍

Hello Paul

I was also diagnosed in October, had a PSA of 383 with a gleason score of 9 (4+5), tumour is outside the prostate and areas detected in lymph nodes around that area. At 53 years old felt my world had collapsed. I wasn't offered surgery but immediately put on hormone tablets and have just finished 20 sessions of radiotheraphy. I might be lucky in that I have private health cover with my job and I was put on a fairly new drug called Apalutimide, not sure if the NHS offer it, at the end of December.

This combined with the radiotheraphy resulted in the PSA now dropping to 0.17, the plan is I'm now going to be tested every 3 months and on the Apalutimide for 2 years.

There are so many different treatment options that people get offered it's so difficult to understand which one to take, in some ways I'm glad I haven't had surgery as your hear of the potential life changing side effects but it is such a difficult balance as we all just want to be made better.

Best of luck with your journey.