You don’t think you have a prostate issue, and all is well in your world. Men are notorious for ignoring this portion of their body, so how do you know you don’t? Were you checked? If so, great, but if not you men would do yourselves a great act of mercy if you would just do the screening once a year beginning at age 50; because the alternative should you happen to have this silent disease can be deadly. In the least, you could lose all your capabilities of sexual performance and, think about having this problem face you day by day- urinary incontinence. I’m talking Depends here. At worst, you could lose your life, and many do when just an hour a year could have alerted them to the danger of Prostate Cancer. The whole world can turn upside down by the time you see symptoms and most likely would spell the worst of all after affects. So silly for you Men, to close your eyes when all you need to do is have a yearly Blood PSA test (Prostate specific antigen) and a DRE (Digital Rectal Exam). I’m smiling here because I know you would rather put a bullet in your toe than have a stranger put a finger up your butt, ah but alas, this is your fate. Women have had all sorts of things put in their most private of places, their Vaginas, along with some major things coming out of them all with an audience, so you just need to get over yourself. Your prostate needs YOU to know where it is, what it does, if it is performing properly and is healthy, and how it can screw up your life if you pretend it doesn’t exist. Prostate gland is hidden, it’s quiet, and you all have one. Neglect can have you wishing you could back peddle to a time when you thought you had a brain and wished you had used it to schedule a yearly screening. Yes, I’m being sarcastic, but only because if my husband and I thought along the lines of Joe Blow who doesn’t recognize his body parts, he would be making funeral plans a year from now or less. Please, take the time out of your year to spend one hour on your prostate health to get a screening. No pussy-footing around, it’s time to be a man and step up to the plate, or should I say bend over the table! (You got nothing the doc hasn’t seen before so don’t be bashful.)
I am your mother, your sister, your daughter, your wife, your grandmother all rolled into one telling you the writing could be on the wall. If a male in your family has had prostate cancer, your risks skyrocket. If you want to have a future, then plan for it by taking care of obtaining this screening. Every year, same time, same place, same lab.
I am so thankful my husband did, and so are his five children and eleven grandchildren. He’s only 55, but his father died of prostate cancer that could have been cured if he had his screenings…but he didn’t, instead the cancer invaded his spine and he died in agony with bone cancer.
Long story short, the only symptoms my husband exhibited was frequent night time urination. Sometimes the stream would stop mid-way, and he would have to push, or sometimes he would stand there a while before he could start. Faithfully he always had his PSA and DRE yearly since age 50. It came time this year for the test and the results were told to him by our family practitioner, “Well, I feel a little hardness on the right side of your prostate, but the gland doesn’t feel enlarged any more than what is normal for a man your age, the PSA is up a little higher than last year, but I think you are fine. Try this prescription Flomax, it should help with the night time frequency, and let’s check your PSA again in a year.”
The Flomax changed nothing at all. By pure insight I contribute to God, I thought now is the time to move past the family doctor and get the opinion of an Urologist. We’re now 3 months farther down the road and he took another blood sample for PSA results. It had risen again inside only 3 months time another point and a half, and now it is at 4.7, which isn’t all that bad we thought. The Urologist pointed out however that when the number raises that quickly it spells only one thing- Cancer! I was actually a little mad that he said that so early in the game, I mean how could he be sure enough to scare us like that? He told us a biopsy was definitely the next step, and wanted it done immediately the next week. So, in we go for that and then wait a week for the results. The doctor never tells you those results over the phone he said, and that we must come in for them in one week. Sitting there in his office, the doctor was smiling and telling us how very fortunate we are, that my husband DOES HAVE CANCER! What? Wait! He does?! The blood drains from your brain at this point and your life is changed forever. So WHY ARE WE FORTUNATE? It was caught in the very early stage and is 100% curable! He told us to keep a positive outlook, that it’s best not to tell it at work except to the boss so we can avoid all the horror stories. So we did just that. A robotic laparascopic prostatectomy was performed and one week later he is back to work part time. Now we can tell people because he is free of cancer and all the pathology results show it had not metastasized anywhere else due to catching it so early. Thank God. The Prostate sits so close to the spine, the bladder, and the rectum, and it’s so simple for the cancer to quietly spread. Then you will see huge symptoms, often with dire side-effects and outcomes.
Everyone will not have the same numbers, or the same symptoms, or the same type cancer even if it does occur in the prostate. My husband had two types, one aggressive and one non-aggressive, or slow-growing. For this reason as well as your age, your health, all treatments are different as well for each individual who may need treatment.
Someone said they understood us not wanting to say anything about this cancer because, after all, it’s so “personal”. Personal? Does that mean by chance that if men don’t feel free to hear stories in the open, or that they are “whispered” as if there is some shame attached that men will gain awareness? Ridiculous! There’s nothing “personal” or “shameful” about Prostate topics, and if more men knew about them, maybe they would take them seriously and fewer would die from this.
I’m not a professional, so I won’t relate technical terms like symptoms, but I will urge you to look them up yourself at The National Cancer Institute site that offers all the information you could want. www.cancer.gov
You don’t think you have a prostate issue, and all is well in your world. Men are notorious for ignoring this portion of their body, so how do you know you don’t? Were you checked? If so, great, but if not you men would do yourselves a great act of mercy if you would just do the screening once a year beginning at age 50; because the alternative should you happen to have this silent disease can be deadly. In the least, you could lose all your capabilities of sexual performance and, think about having this problem face you day by day- urinary incontinence. I’m talking Depends here. At worst, you could lose your life, and many do when just an hour a year could have alerted them to the danger of Prostate Cancer. The whole world can turn upside down by the time you see symptoms and most likely would spell the worst of all after affects. So silly for you Men, to close your eyes when all you need to do is have a yearly Blood PSA test (Prostate specific antigen) and a DRE (Digital Rectal Exam). I’m smiling here because I know you would rather put a bullet in your toe than have a stranger put a finger up your butt, ah but alas, this is your fate. Women have had all sorts of things put in their most private of places, their Vaginas, along with some major things coming out of them all with an audience, so you just need to get over yourself. Your prostate needs YOU to know where it is, what it does, if it is performing properly and is healthy, and how it can screw up your life if you pretend it doesn’t exist. Prostate gland is hidden, it’s quiet, and you all have one. Neglect can have you wishing you could back peddle to a time when you thought you had a brain and wished you had used it to schedule a yearly screening. Yes, I’m being sarcastic, but only because if my husband and I thought along the lines of Joe Blow who doesn’t recognize his body parts, he would be making funeral plans a year from now or less. Please, take the time out of your year to spend one hour on your prostate health to get a screening. No pussy-footing around, it’s time to be a man and step up to the plate, or should I say bend over the table! (You got nothing the doc hasn’t seen before so don’t be bashful.)
I am your mother, your sister, your daughter, your wife, your grandmother all rolled into one telling you the writing could be on the wall. If a male in your family has had prostate cancer, your risks skyrocket. If you want to have a future, then plan for it by taking care of obtaining this screening. Every year, same time, same place, same lab.
I am so thankful my husband did, and so are his five children and eleven grandchildren. He’s only 55, but his father died of prostate cancer that could have been cured if he had his screenings…but he didn’t, instead the cancer invaded his spine and he died in agony with bone cancer.
Long story short, the only symptoms my husband exhibited was frequent night time urination. Sometimes the stream would stop mid-way, and he would have to push, or sometimes he would stand there a while before he could start. Faithfully he always had his PSA and DRE yearly since age 50. It came time this year for the test and the results were told to him by our family practitioner, “Well, I feel a little hardness on the right side of your prostate, but the gland doesn’t feel enlarged any more than what is normal for a man your age, the PSA is up a little higher than last year, but I think you are fine. Try this prescription Flomax, it should help with the night time frequency, and let’s check your PSA again in a year.”
The Flomax changed nothing at all. By pure insight I contribute to God, I thought now is the time to move past the family doctor and get the opinion of an Urologist. We’re now 3 months farther down the road and he took another blood sample for PSA results. It had risen again inside only 3 months time another point and a half, and now it is at 4.7, which isn’t all that bad we thought. The Urologist pointed out however that when the number raises that quickly it spells only one thing- Cancer! I was actually a little mad that he said that so early in the game, I mean how could he be sure enough to scare us like that? He told us a biopsy was definitely the next step, and wanted it done immediately the next week. So, in we go for that and then wait a week for the results. The doctor never tells you those results over the phone he said, and that we must come in for them in one week. Sitting there in his office, the doctor was smiling and telling us how very fortunate we are, that my husband DOES HAVE CANCER! What? Wait! He does?! The blood drains from your brain at this point and your life is changed forever. So WHY ARE WE FORTUNATE? It was caught in the very early stage and is 100% curable! He told us to keep a positive outlook, that it’s best not to tell it at work except to the boss so we can avoid all the horror stories. So we did just that. A robotic laparascopic prostatectomy was performed and one week later he is back to work part time. Now we can tell people because he is free of cancer and all the pathology results show it had not metastasized anywhere else due to catching it so early. Thank God. The Prostate sits so close to the spine, the bladder, and the rectum, and it’s so simple for the cancer to quietly spread. Then you will see huge symptoms, often with dire side-effects and outcomes.
Everyone will not have the same numbers, or the same symptoms, or the same type cancer even if it does occur in the prostate. My husband had two types, one aggressive and one non-aggressive, or slow-growing. For this reason as well as your age, your health, all treatments are different as well for each individual who may need treatment.
Someone said they understood us not wanting to say anything about this cancer because, after all, it’s so “personal”. Personal? Does that mean by chance that if men don’t feel free to hear stories in the open, or that they are “whispered” as if there is some shame attached that men will gain awareness? Ridiculous! There’s nothing “personal” or “shameful” about Prostate topics, and if more men knew about them, maybe they would take them seriously and fewer would die from this.
I’m not a professional, so I won’t relate technical terms like symptoms, but I will urge you to look them up yourself at The National Cancer Institute site that offers all the information you could want. www.cancer.gov
You don’t think you have a prostate issue, and all is well in your world. Men are notorious for ignoring this portion of their body, so how do you know you don’t? Were you checked? If so, great, but if not you men would do yourselves a great act of mercy if you would just do the screening once a year beginning at age 50; because the alternative should you happen to have this silent disease can be deadly. In the least, you could lose all your capabilities of sexual performance and, think about having this problem face you day by day- urinary incontinence. I’m talking Depends here. At worst, you could lose your life, and many do when just an hour a year could have alerted them to the danger of Prostate Cancer. The whole world can turn upside down by the time you see symptoms and most likely would spell the worst of all after affects. So silly for you Men, to close your eyes when all you need to do is have a yearly Blood PSA test (Prostate specific antigen) and a DRE (Digital Rectal Exam). I’m smiling here because I know you would rather put a bullet in your toe than have a stranger put a finger up your butt, ah but alas, this is your fate. Women have had all sorts of things put in their most private of places, their Vaginas, along with some major things coming out of them all with an audience, so you just need to get over yourself. Your prostate needs YOU to know where it is, what it does, if it is performing properly and is healthy, and how it can screw up your life if you pretend it doesn’t exist. Prostate gland is hidden, it’s quiet, and you all have one. Neglect can have you wishing you could back peddle to a time when you thought you had a brain and wished you had used it to schedule a yearly screening. Yes, I’m being sarcastic, but only because if my husband and I thought along the lines of Joe Blow who doesn’t recognize his body parts, he would be making funeral plans a year from now or less. Please, take the time out of your year to spend one hour on your prostate health to get a screening. No pussy-footing around, it’s time to be a man and step up to the plate, or should I say bend over the table! (You got nothing the doc hasn’t seen before so don’t be bashful.)
I am your mother, your sister, your daughter, your wife, your grandmother all rolled into one telling you the writing could be on the wall. If a male in your family has had prostate cancer, your risks skyrocket. If you want to have a future, then plan for it by taking care of obtaining this screening. Every year, same time, same place, same lab.
I am so thankful my husband did, and so are his five children and eleven grandchildren. He’s only 55, but his father died of prostate cancer that could have been cured if he had his screenings…but he didn’t, instead the cancer invaded his spine and he died in agony with bone cancer.
Long story short, the only symptoms my husband exhibited was frequent night time urination. Sometimes the stream would stop mid-way, and he would have to push, or sometimes he would stand there a while before he could start. Faithfully he always had his PSA and DRE yearly since age 50. It came time this year for the test and the results were told to him by our family practitioner, “Well, I feel a little hardness on the right side of your prostate, but the gland doesn’t feel enlarged any more than what is normal for a man your age, the PSA is up a little higher than last year, but I think you are fine. Try this prescription Flomax, it should help with the night time frequency, and let’s check your PSA again in a year.”
The Flomax changed nothing at all. By pure insight I contribute to God, I thought now is the time to move past the family doctor and get the opinion of an Urologist. We’re now 3 months farther down the road and he took another blood sample for PSA results. It had risen again inside only 3 months time another point and a half, and now it is at 4.7, which isn’t all that bad we thought. The Urologist pointed out however that when the number raises that quickly it spells only one thing- Cancer! I was actually a little mad that he said that so early in the game, I mean how could he be sure enough to scare us like that? He told us a biopsy was definitely the next step, and wanted it done immediately the next week. So, in we go for that and then wait a week for the results. The doctor never tells you those results over the phone he said, and that we must come in for them in one week. Sitting there in his office, the doctor was smiling and telling us how very fortunate we are, that my husband DOES HAVE CANCER! What? Wait! He does?! The blood drains from your brain at this point and your life is changed forever. So WHY ARE WE FORTUNATE? It was caught in the very early stage and is 100% curable! He told us to keep a positive outlook, that it’s best not to tell it at work except to the boss so we can avoid all the horror stories. So we did just that. A robotic laparascopic prostatectomy was performed and one week later he is back to work part time. Now we can tell people because he is free of cancer and all the pathology results show it had not metastasized anywhere else due to catching it so early. Thank God. The Prostate sits so close to the spine, the bladder, and the rectum, and it’s so simple for the cancer to quietly spread. Then you will see huge symptoms, often with dire side-effects and outcomes.
Everyone will not have the same numbers, or the same symptoms, or the same type cancer even if it does occur in the prostate. My husband had two types, one aggressive and one non-aggressive, or slow-growing. For this reason as well as your age, your health, all treatments are different as well for each individual who may need treatment.
Someone said they understood us not wanting to say anything about this cancer because, after all, it’s so “personal”. Personal? Does that mean by chance that if men don’t feel free to hear stories in the open, or that they are “whispered” as if there is some shame attached that men will gain awareness? Ridiculous! There’s nothing “personal” or “shameful” about Prostate topics, and if more men knew about them, maybe they would take them seriously and fewer would die from this.
I’m not a professional, so I won’t relate technical terms like symptoms, but I will urge you to look them up yourself at The National Cancer Institute site that offers all the information you could want. www.cancer.gov
