THERE WAS NO RESPONSE TO AN UPDATE REMINDER IN 2015 SO THERE IS NO UPDATE.

I was diagnosed in 2009, at the age of 48, with a Gleason Grading of 9. I had the robotic radical prostatectomy, and my surgical margins were all good.

I lost sexual function, but otherwise things went well. It took about 2 months to get complete control of my continence.

In 2011, my PSA started going up again, so we decided I should do the radiation treatments. I had a Lupron shot, waited a month, then did 40 treatments of radiation (and had 2 more Lupron, a month apart).

I have had some problems with bleeding in the colon since radiation.

The last couple of times I visited the Urologist, the PSA started climbing. It quadrupled in back-to-back three month periods (so up by a factor of 9). So we decided to start the Lupron shots. I am not very happy about this, but I have not yet seen bad side effects (3 weeks is all, though).

Am I supposed to put other things here? I am pretty worried about my future, and how much of it there will be.

Dave's e-mail address is: dcooke AT hastings.edu (replace "AT" with "@")

NOTE: Dave has not updated his story for more than 15 months, so you may not receive any response from him.