I started with viagra type tablets, but they didn’t really work so I moved to injections which worked and again, not as bad as it sounds, you just get used to it!
Really struggled to get over the diagnosis and subsequent operation, I would spend hours thinking about death and expecting it to come back, caused issues at work, and when the cancer did come back, i struggled to the point I had to pack in work, as I couldn’t concentrate properly and meant I couldn’t do my job properly.
Forced me to stop working, which I didn’t want to.
Yes
Because at the time I believed I couldn’t live with cancer inside me, and thought that was the way to go….. and still do despite the consequences.
Radiotherapy was advised when the cancer returned following the removal of the prostate, 33 daily sessions, which actually wasn’t that bad to deal with … unfortunately it didn’t work.
Just the daily impact of having to go to hospital every day for a couple of months, a bit draining, but acceptable.
No
Only because it didn’t work, but if I thought it might work, I would do it again.
The hormone treatment did have significant affect on the sex side, as in penis and testicles shrink , and a total loss of sexual desire, which has an impact on my wife. And whilst she has been very understanding it still has an effect on my mental health when trying to deal with its impact on the both of us.
The sweats were a major problem for me, 12-20 a day , eventually after a year I managed to get some other drug which has almost stopped the sweats. And now I can operate and tolerate the other side effects .
Whilst this treatment has had the most side effects and impacted heavily on my relationship with my wife, the up side is that it’s this treatment that currently has gained control of my cancer, it’s no longer growing and no longer dividing , so whilst it’s been a long 4 years where at times it seemed like it was always bad news, there has always been another treatment to try , and now probably for the first time since diagnosis, I feel happy and relatively good about my future…. Just got hang in there and take it one step at a time!
Yes
Because it’s currently working!
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