Accept that you may be impotent after treatment. At my age it wasn't so bad as I'd already had my family. Keep remembering that getting rid of the cancer is better than dying from it. If these side-effects apply - it's because you are still alive.
Many of these treatments create these side effects - they are normal factors.
You will not be the same as before but you are still here, to enjoy your family and friends in whatever way you can - be it an old or new experience.
My prostatectomy spread to the prostate floor. The subsequent radiotherapy and hormone therapy have greatly affected my life. I have both urinary and faecal incontinence and I am total impotent. I believe that the hormone therapy has left me prone to emotional states that I did not experience previously.
Yes
Because the prostatectomy was the greatest guarantee of removing all evidence of the cancer.
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