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It is rare when a person is politically correct using the phrase, "Men Only." Since I aint getting any younger, this could be my last chance. Carpe chancum! Ladies I am sure you won't feel bad being excluded.
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At first glance I took this postcard for an Orvis Promo. But it is good advice for men between 40 and 75. Consult your physician. Don't worry, guys, it is a blood test.
I'm so glad to hear that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear742
Cuz' the guy on the right making the fist, sure looks a lot like my doctor.
And he's making a fist, which can't be good. lol.Quote:
Cuz' the guy on the right making the fist, sure looks a lot like my doctor.
SHEW!!! Good news! Last prostate exam I got I think the doc used a speculum and a maglight! I'll vote for the blood test version any day!! LOL!
it's called PSA. sometimes gives false positives. mine was good.
They will still want to examine your prostate.
Had one last Friday. Blood, urine, and the finger probe.
Very good advice. Prostate cancer ranks #1.
You actually need a series of the PSA tests over several years. Unless your reading is crazy high, your doctor will want to track your PSA readings over time. It is normal for them to increase gradually with age. A sudden spike spells trouble. And yes, a good doctor will do the finger test as well. Here again, unless he finds something drastic, it will be a comparison test over time.
Had the 'test' more 'n a baker's dozen years ago. Had the surgery too. Now that I'm on social security life is good or pretty much so. Tie flies, fish with 'em, ride the bike & 'things' are OK. DON'T let that sneak up on ya! Pay attention! The tug on the end of yoyr fly line is better than the tug on the end of your life!
Be well
I had my colon check, when I turned 60, my second screening, 1st was when I turned 50. Well in those 10 years I lost 5 inches in hight, and gain 30 pounds in weight. The night before the exam, I had to pour some powder into a large bottle of Gatorade, and drink a cup of the stuff ever couple hours. Then the morning of the examination I was to drink a small bottle of citrus of magnesia. This was to flush the out the colon (intestines). I was up all night long, and not traveling too far from the ivory throne.
It was discovered during the exam that I have a compacted colon, and they only could get the probe up about 6 feet of the intestins. So when I came to... with the still in the knelling position on the examination table with my deryair still pointed towards the ceiling, and the back of the gown gapping open (didn't seem to bother the two nurses that assisted me into a sitting positon) I was informed that I needed to go get a Catscan done.... Got over to the exray lab, where I was laid out on a table in was slid inside this metal doughnut hole, and hold my breath while they did the scan.......got a call from my family doctor the next day, telling me that I had to go see a urologist, because the scan found a growth on my left kidney the size of a golf ball...... got the surgury scheduled to remove my kidney, and spent the next 4 days recovering in the hospital, being given injections of morphine every 4 hours (do not remember much while I was there, but I felt well refreshed when I was released.
The lab report said that the growth was non-cancerous.....
Last fall my wifes colon screening they discovered cancer of the colon, and were going to schedule surgury to remove the section of intestine where they discovered the cancer. Later the surgury was canceled because during the Catscan, it was discovered that she also had the same cancer found in her intestines also in her liver. Category 4 (not treatalbe). Currently my wife is taking chemo injections every third week, and it takes two week for her to recover from the chemo treatment, with one good week before she has to go in for the next chemo....
Doctor said that she has from 3 to 6 years of life remaining, depending on how the chemo treatments take......
Colon Cancer can be cured if found soon enough, if it go undected too long, it becomes not treatable.
If you are 50 years old or older, get your colon check, and then checked again every 10 years....... then you might be able to go fly fishing when you are in your 90's!
I have lost some close dear friends on FAOL to cancer, Al Campbell (brain cancer), Harold Hattaway (liver cancer), Sonny Morgan (cancer of the thorax). I have had two skin cancer lesions removed (basil) and they were able to remove the complete cancer in the doctors office. My wife had a melnoma cancer surgury, and the surgeon got it all... but now my wife has terminal colon cancer, and all we can do is to delay the inevitable.....with chemo treatments. So get a a physical every year from your family doctor, and do the followups with specialist that he recommend that you visit. It is only your life at risk if you don't! ~Parnelli
Was one of the lucky ones....got diagnosed right after my youngest was born. He's 7 and I'm still here. Wan't pleasant, but the option is not worth losing the fight. A blessing that I don't take for granted. Get every check you can, and then some. It's an unforgiving disease that doesn't care what your plans in life are. Both myself and my wife lost our mothers early to it. Already had 2 pre-cancerous polyps rmoved on he 1st check. about due for another.