I will pray for you brother and thank you for the reminder.
Hang in t here pardner and don't give up hope. Will keep you in our prayers.
A quite a few men have caught the meaning of why I posted this thread, here and over on the cast boolits forum. Made a few men think about getting checked. Don't just think about it make an appointment! If you have a family doctor, any doc can do it, there must be bunghole 101 in med school. He could also refer you to a urologist . One respondent said he had regular checkups when he was in his late 40's, just 2 years after a clen check, he was found to be in stage 4 prostate cancer. BUT it was removed and was clean 5 years later.
It IS humiliating to have a finger pushed up where the sun don't shine,
GET OVER IT! The anatomy of our bodies is such that the rectum lies just behind and tight against the prostate. A good doc can feel for the relative size, and any lumps. Those lumps could be cancerous.
Second, have a blood test for your PSA.(Prostate-Specific Antigen). A family doctor can also order that test. An enlarged prostate, or one that's NOT smooth, AND a PSA of over 4.0 would indicate the need for a biopsy(step three). That's when a urologist would enter the picture. That gets pretty complicated and is even more humiliating. It's called hollow needle biopsy. They numb the,,--Aw phooey if you get that far you'll find out!
In my case they supposedly caught it early, enlarged prostate, rising PSA, and of the 6 or 8 biopsy needles one had cancer cells. Several times the cancer was missed. When my prostate was removed via the Da-vincy robot,(2010), some cells were left behind. The PSA didn't drop low enough, so I went through 33 treatments under the beamed radiation. It missed some too. Then the testosterone control injections called Eligard. That worked for the last6 years. I was told back then that the survival average was 5-10 years, well, not too bad, it's been fun.