Glad you made it through this phase AZguy2. I seemed to get more anxious before the biopsy than anything else I've been through before or since. I think it was because everything was still unknown at that point. Once the diagnosis was made all my will and energy turned toward getting rid of the cancer and anything that led to that end didn't seem so bad.
I had a 12-sample biopsy; my PG was quite enlarged but my Uro didn't know that before he started the biopsy and he planned on 12 all along. The moving the probe around was the worst part. The actual needle hits led to a building burning feeling that become somewhat uncomfortable and also felt like a 10 minute digital exam - like someone was fingering the PG and wouldn't stop.
When I got home my pent-up anxiety got the best of me and I had a 'cold-sweats' reaction. I was advised to eat something with sugar and drink something with caffeine and it would go away and it did.
The diagnosis is where the people here can really help you. Once you get your report if it's positive (
and we're praying for you that it isn't), please post this info:
prostate volume (size)
number of positive samples and location and % of each positive sample that contains cancer.
whether the cells are 'well-differentiated' or not
what lab/doctor did the pathology - some places are much better than others and if there is only one positive sample or it's only suspicious but not definite cancer then there's a lot of experienced people here can share about what to do next.
Others may add more info that will be important to post if you want to get the most out of this community. I got my catheter out today and I haven't leaked in 3 hours so I'm kind of giddy right now.......
My one piece of advice is (if you haven't already) to go ahead and read as much as you can now about prostate cancer, treatment options, the types of surgery, recovery protocols, incontinence and impotence issues from the different treatments, etc. A week after my biopsy when I got the news that I had cancer, all my reading made it easier to accept since I knew what the road ahead was. I didn't have the anxiety of a new set of unknowns. My wife was in tears; I was not only at peace with the diagnosis for myself but I could help comfort her by telling her what would happen next, what the likelihood of total organ containment would be and thereby the odds of a total cure from a prostatectomy.
Again you're in my prayers.....hope you sleep well tonight......how is your daughter doing?
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