r/ProstateCancer • u/One-Calligrapher9016 • 1d ago
Test Results Prostate cancer
I’ve had a spa reading of 24.4. I got in with a very good urologist. Done the mri and the biopsy and he called and said it was cancer. Odd thing I’d I’ve had swollen ankle for a while and this morning I couldn’t walk on my left. Got a pet scam scheduled for sept 12. I have a doc and on the 11. I’m totally by myself meaning now wife and kids are grown. It’s messing with me bad now. Any advice or notes please
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u/InchoateSelf 1d ago
Join a support group or get a counselor. I did both. It helped immensely. You may also be tempted to not discuss this with friends. Seek out friends who have had cancer and share what you are feeling and going through right now. Continue to post here and let people support you as you walk this unfamiliar and scary path.
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u/CuliacIsland 1d ago
Pay close attention to your ankle swelling. It could be a sign of severe cardiovascular disease. Im not a Dr, but I would recommend seeing a Dr ASAP.
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u/Past-Oil1032 1d ago
Talking about your cancer diagnosis with family, friends, and new friends in the cancer community will be therapeutic. It helps processing your emotions. Also, you need to learn about the treatment options. Good luck mate!
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u/Financial-Post7610 1d ago
I'm with ya brother. 68 and widowed, no children. See your docs, ask lots of questions. I've found chatting with some of the guys in the waiting room for radiation helps. Everyone feels the same. Shock. Disbelief. Denial. " why me?" You will get through this. Whatever keeps you in a positive frame of mind...do it.
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u/mikehippo 1d ago
It is unlikely that the ankle is linked, what you need to know is the Gleason score, if it 7 or below that is a good sign, but Prostate cancer is highly treatable.
There is not just hope, there is almost the expectation of a good outcome unless you are really unlucky.
If you tell anyone its best not to refer to it as a spa reading in case they think that you have been to a massage.
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u/amp1212 1d ago
Cancer does mess with all of us bad. Been there.
What I'd say about dealing with this stuff is -- one step at a time.
Prostate cancer responds well to a lot of different therapies. Which one is going to be right for you -- you'll find out. But you should have confidence that there's something to be done that will be worth doing.
As to bad ankle. Well, I've got a bad hip and a bad knee . . . and nothing to do with cancer. Just getting old. Nothing about having prostate cancer prevents you from having arthritis !
So you've got a PET scan for the 12th . . . if I were you, I'd enjoy myself and some really nice late summer early fall time, and deal with what comes next after the scan. That's information that will be very helpful, worrying too much about it when you're about to get informatio you need, not really helpful.
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u/Maleficent_Break_114 1d ago
Yeah, sorry to hear about your ankle after you find out your in club that nobody wanted to join. You’ll find it every little aching pain make you think it’s the cancer until you get to a certain point and then after that point you know, I mean you probably had that before it depends now is there any other thing that’s happened to you that you feel should’ve been assigned I mean, I know I did, but they won’t even it’s weird when you go to the urologist like you’d expect them to give you a piece of paper and check off all these boxes about What you have that might be an indicator of cancer, but that never happened to me. Anybody else?
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u/More_Mouse7849 1d ago
Start talking to some of your friends about it. You are liable to be surprised at how many have gone through it or are going through it now. It helps to talk to others about their experiences
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u/Key_Introduction_302 21h ago
I’ll tell my friend, you ore on a shitty road that many of us have travelled. When I was at where you are I was really pissed off, not at anyone in particular just pissed. What the PET did for me was to define the fight. It gave me a map of what I was up against, it wasn’t good but I at the end of it now. It good to know what you are feeling! Write that shit down and it’s easier to get rid of it bugging you. You can do this, it really sucks but there is a future . Fight.
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u/TestLevel4845 20h ago
Maybe this sounds kind of woo woo, but I've accepted my prostate cancer as a teacher, not a punisher, but just part of my life journey, and something that I will accept and eventually heal.. PS I am 66 with a stage three Gleason nine taking hormone suppressant drugs and getting ready for breaky therapy and then HDR… I'm doing all of the stuff the doc orders and then I've got my own protocols. Best of luck, my friend.
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u/andydudude 1d ago
The disbelief is real. I’m still wondering what is up and what bad thing I did to deserve this. Jury was out and this is it.