I wish my doctor told me...

[Darryl]

Please finish the sentence, "I wish my doctor told me..." below as a reply.

[MacInCT]

How exhaused I'd feel all the time.

[Rob54]

How it intrudes into every aspect of your life...

[Iam4allseasons]

Nothing will ever be the same...

[cajun1949]

My Doctor, 14 Years ago, was very informative. Gave me all the possible options and enough time to make my decision. Radical prostatectomy.

But if the sentence read "if I knew then what I know now" I'd still have the cancer and not suffered through all the many complications I've endured and enjoyed a normal sex life.

[Hidden]

That you will never be the same again.

[JLINSCHEID]

About the email group that preceded this one (and now about this site). I only found it by googling prostate cancer and gay men and even then only buried in an article that turned up.

[sps333]

"Catheters sometimes get blocked; if it doesn't appear to be filling the bag, go directly to ER and they will remedy the situation." "p.s. Tell your friends to find out the weekends I will be on call and schedule your late-week surgery ahead of those weekends.".

[novatimo]

I wish my doctors (med onc and rad onc) had told me that hormone blockade and radiation would cause my penis to shrink and my orgasms to be dry.