Posted on 10/24/2021 9:17:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
The only thing pols and the media care about are things that affect women.
Get a PSA test. It might well save your life.
If I get cancer, I’ll not take any of the “ama approved” methods of treatment. There are other methods that actually work. But at my age, fatal illnesses are not a thing to fear. Same goes for my wife, who is six days younger than me.
PC is very slow growing. Very slow.
But by the time it goes metastatic, usually into the bladder and lymphs, the cancer becomes fast growning.
A PSA test on a regular basis is a good tattle tale of something is not right.
Frequent nightly urinations is what made me think something had changed and mentioned same to my doc in my annual physical (I was 63 when I was diagnosed with stage 1 PC)
In my case I got external and internal radiation. Outside of the fact my “appendage” glows in the dark now, all is well.
Breast cancer however, can strike and kill very young women, as in their 20's.....not so for PC.....
As many of you here already know, the Great Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer in 1993. He was only 52 years old.
Frank would have loved the internet. He was very bright and would have quickly mastered the digits and widgits.
Key word, “if”. That’s what insurance companies depend on us lifting above all else. A life insurance company is betting you are going to live, while you are betting you are going to die.
And the weird “unconscious” event is a stretch. Sure, it could happen, possibly, maybe. But a card in my wallet that clearly says “Don’t involve any transportation service that will charge money for the service” would be welcome in court, should someone try to charge me.
Get your PSA checked.
That is what all insurance is about. Even if you are not unconscious, but merely unable to move or get up, such as having shattered a hip. Who is going to move you to your bed, and then in and out of it for months? And no one is going to search your wallet before you get to a facility. You’d better tatoo your forehead, “Just leave me to croak or pay my bill.”
A lot of people seem to want to try and live forever, and I don’t see the point.
If I break a leg, I’ll see a doctor.
If I have a bacterial infection, I’ll take an antibiotic.
I actually do get annual check-ups (more or less) but I do not put a lot of emphasis on medical care. I’m not anti-medicine, but it’s not my savior. As you say, the Lord will choose my time.
Went to have my first one. Never again. They couldn’t finish it. Plus, they didn’t give me enough stuff to put me out. I told them when you come up with a better way, let me know
good for you got 5 yrs on me, mine is always low
WOW every 6 months
I did a fair amount of research on it more than a decade ago. So some of it has just slipped away from my mind. PSA and Gleason Scores and all that. But as I recall, when examining older men who passed from any cause they found about 80% of them also had PC. It just happens a lot but it usually happens when a man gets older and it tends to grow very slowly so it doesn’t matter for most. It stays localized and grows slowly.
If it happens to occur in a younger man, definitely keep an eye on it. There is a reason why they start checking men at age 50. It’s not necessarily a death sentence - there hasn’t been as much research into treatment as say BC has received - but there have been good advancements in the last 10 or so years.
Never seen such evil. So sad.
Strange. Don’t recall the particulars of dads issue. Nor know his brother’s. Seems to me dad just had a regular urology appt and maybe regular cystoscope? Don’t recall.
But my dad and his brother both lasted 10 years past it. Seems they were successful. Still have to wonder about dads death, though…too quick to be sure but supposedly acute Lymphoma.
Your first what? Couldn’t finish what?
Glad to hear it, but as a group, men spend billions a year on prostitution in this country alone. That's money that could go into funding the research into prostate cancer.
Your statement makes no sense and is what is wrong with America.
I'll agree all of that money spent on prostitution is a problem, but I'll spell it out for you. 1/10 of the billions spent on prostitution every year would be tens of millions that could be invested in activism and research. That activism is what would bring attention to prostate cancer and result in more research, as it has for breast cancer.
Between funding activism and research and paying for prostitutes, which do you think gets more money from men?
Good point.
Medicine has been quackery for long before COVID.
Yes. People without contact with the medical system think health workers are wise and angelic.
It’s a lot more unpleasant than swallowing IP6 first thing in the morning.
I get a PSA test once a year, but I try not to depend on orthodox medicine to keep me alive. They operate to make a profit, not make people healthy.
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