Re: Erectile difficulties from dutesteride and finesteride

From: pete@xxxxxxxxxx (Pete)

This is scary stuff, especially when you read c. palmer's response
(which accuses the physician of not being a physician - which could very
well be true), and then read Genes response, which thanks him (i.e. just
the opposite). That is why it is dangerous to believe everything you
read on the Internet, and you have to be very careful. I have seen stuff
like this before (maybe from the same person - who knows).

By copy of this, I request Dr. Sancha comment on the "supposed
physician's" post. It sounds pretty shady to me also, since the author
did not identify himself like our Dr. Sancha does...Pete

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hi pete - i can't speak for the physician, but i have a real address, a
real name and i've been there - done that - got the t-shirt.

i've studied prostate cancer for over 15 years in great detail.

what started my studies into pca was my dad. they told him to do
watchful waiting and i couldn't understand why. so, i started to
research it. he had a psa of 6 and was in good health.

he had an 8th grade education, so he trusted doctors.

so, after two and a half years, my dad's psa went from 6 to 288. keep
in mind, this was a urologist that was treating him, not a general
doctor.

it was at that point, they put him on lupron shots.

i watched what the shots did to him and i watch my dad go hormone
refractive.

i watch the bone pain set in the last years of his life and i watched as
the prostate cancer took his life.

so, when i see something so blatantly obvious wrong in information, i
will speak up.

now, in defense of gene........ every one is entitled to their own
opinion. i have no problem with that. and as he said, he believes a
poster who calls himself a physician, that's fine.

i believe in live and let live.

i responded to the physician's post and gave my facts.

i realize that this is a BPH newsgroup. i want to respect that.

i had BPH symptoms for three years before i was dx'ed with pca.

my BPH was so bad, that the prostate was over 2 1/2 times it's size and
had enlarged and pushed it's way into the floor of the bladder. the
ultra sound testing showed that i was retaining 50 ml of urine each
time.

my flow kept getting worse and i was thinking it was the BPH that was
causing it.

my nightly trips to the bathroom were getting more frequent, so i
thought it all just went hand in hand with BPH.

it was when i was on the operating table that the surgeon found a finger
of the BPH tissue had grown out of the prostate muscle band and was
pushing into the bladder causing the bladder wall to fold over the
output hole. he told me that i would have been in total rental shut
down within 6 months anyway. so i was really lucky - if you want to
call it that - that all of this happened.

now, that i have all of this behind me, i'm have no regrets with my
choice of decisions. it was scary to make these decisions and i believe
that each person has to choose the treatment that is best for them.
there is no one answer to fit all problems.

when i got told i had prostate cancer, i ask the doctor, "how long will
i live if i watch it grow?" his response was, "you will not see your
first social security check and the last three years will be in pain"

i knew he was right.

i turned 60 a few months back and am planning on what to do for my 70th
birthday party.

oh, before my surgery, i timed it and it was taking me between 2 to 3
minutes to empty my bladder. now, it takes less than 15 seconds if i
have a full bladder.

i'm a vietnam vet - agent orange positive - so that could be why i had
the prostate cancer so young. (30 years younger than the age my father
developed it)

peace to all,

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc

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