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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Interesting stories. i thought I would share mine. Went to an endocronologist complaining of feeling tired all the time. He tested my testosterone and said my levels were low. started injections and felt like a million bucks. until 6 weeks later when I couldn't pee and ended up in the ER. My prostate had swollen from the injections. Also had a bad bladder infection. So my first cath was done by an intern who never did it before with two paramedics watching who had never seen it done before. got a follow up with an Urologist 2 days later. they pulled the cath and still swollen. back in goes another one. had surgery about a month later after having countless caths and cameras shoved into Mr Wiggley. Back to work finally but after 2 months couldn't pee again. Went to a different Dr who said I had developed scar tissue, so after countless caths I had surgery again about a month later. Back to work for about a month and then I couldn't pee again. Dr didn't want to deal so he said I should self cath twice a day. That pissed my wife off because i was only 54 at the time so she asked around the hospital where she worked who was the best urologist and she got a name. got an appointment. Day of the appointment the Dr walks in and is shocked when he saw how old I was, he figured from my history I was in my mid to late 80's. Anyway had surgery with this guy and no problems since. I missed probably a total of 6 months out of that year from work. I can't begin to count how many cathetors I had shoved into Mr Wiggley. Another major problem was the infection I had was very tough to kill. I went through 8 courses of antibiotics and it kept coming back. Also developed an allergy to cipro. Woke up one day and my mouth was full of painfull blisters so I had to stop taking that. Anyway it's over with I'm good as new almost. My testosterone levels had returned to normal shortly after they were checked and found to be low. No problem since. I Would suggest approaching the use of testosterone with caution. I'll never touch it again even if my levels drop, it made for one miserable year for me and the wife.
 
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1stnamebassist said:
Interesting stories. i thought I would share mine. Went to an endocronologist complaining of feeling tired all the time. He tested my testosterone and said my levels were low. started injections and felt like a million bucks. until 6 weeks later when I couldn't pee and ended up in the ER. My prostate had swollen from the injections. Also had a bad bladder infection. So my first cath was done by an intern who never did it before with two paramedics watching who had never seen it done before. got a follow up with an Urologist 2 days later. they pulled the cath and still swollen. back in goes another one. had surgery about a month later after having countless caths and cameras shoved into Mr Wiggley. Back to work finally but after 2 months couldn't pee again. Went to a different Dr who said I had developed scar tissue, so after countless caths I had surgery again about a month later. Back to work for about a month and then I couldn't pee again. Dr didn't want to deal so he said I should self cath twice a day. That pissed my wife off because i was only 54 at the time so she asked around the hospital where she worked who was the best urologist and she got a name. got an appointment. Day of the appointment the Dr walks in and is shocked when he saw how old I was, he figured from my history I was in my mid to late 80's. Anyway had surgery with this guy and no problems since. I missed probably a total of 6 months out of that year from work. I can't begin to count how many cathetors I had shoved into Mr Wiggley. Another major problem was the infection I had was very tough to kill. I went through 8 courses of antibiotics and it kept coming back. Also developed an allergy to cipro. Woke up one day and my mouth was full of painfull blisters so I had to stop taking that. Anyway it's over with I'm good as new almost. My testosterone levels had returned to normal shortly after they were checked and found to be low. No problem since. I Would suggest approaching the use of testosterone with caution. I'll never touch it again even if my levels drop, it made for one miserable year for me and the wife.
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OK. I lift the ban on crying...
 
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Hey 1stnamebassist,
I hate to be a downer, but you might want to read this:
FDA Warning: Cipro May Rupture Tendons
There's now an FDA warning about Cipro and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics causing a tendency for tendonitis and tendon ruptures in some people. I'm one of those people. I took Cipro in the early 2000's and in 2006 came close to fully rupturing my achilles tendon. It took a long time to heal and I still have trouble with that ankle. I'm also prone to tendonitis now.
I'm very cautious about what antibiotics I'll take now and always check for possible drug interactions any time my doc prescribes something. It aggravated him to no end at first, but after I discovered warnings about potentially dangerous interactions he wasn't aware of a couple times, he's come to accept my justifiable drug paranoia.
 
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ric426 said:
Hey 1stnamebassist,
I hate to be a downer, but you might want to read this:
FDA Warning: Cipro May Rupture Tendons
There's now an FDA warning about Cipro and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics causing a tendency for tendonitis and tendon ruptures in some people. I'm one of those people. I took Cipro in the early 2000's and in 2006 came close to fully rupturing my achilles tendon. It took a long time to heal and I still have trouble with that ankle. I'm also prone to tendonitis now.
I'm very cautious about what antibiotics I'll take now and always check for possible drug interactions any time my doc prescribes something. It aggravated him to no end at first, but after I discovered warnings about potentially dangerous interactions he wasn't aware of a couple times, he's come to accept my justifiable drug paranoia.
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Thanks for the info. i have constant joint and especially ankle pain so it wouldn't surprise me. This all happened about 4 years ago. right as we speak I'm on my 2nd day of a course of clindomycin and bactrim for diverticulitus. Because of the allergy I developed to Cipro and also flagyl, the 2 standard antibiotics for that issue, I have to use alternatives that aren't quite as effective.
 
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ric426 said:
Hey 1stnamebassist,
I hate to be a downer, but you might want to read this:
FDA Warning: Cipro May Rupture Tendons
There's now an FDA warning about Cipro and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics causing a tendency for tendonitis and tendon ruptures in some people. I'm one of those people. I took Cipro in the early 2000's and in 2006 came close to fully rupturing my achilles tendon. It took a long time to heal and I still have trouble with that ankle. I'm also prone to tendonitis now.
I'm very cautious about what antibiotics I'll take now and always check for possible drug interactions any time my doc prescribes something. It aggravated him to no end at first, but after I discovered warnings about potentially dangerous interactions he wasn't aware of a couple times, he's come to accept my justifiable drug paranoia.
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Same thing happened to by monitor engineer.
 
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My pharmacist wife corroborates the cipro deal about tendons, seems to be already a known issue.

I am day-to-day getting better in slow steps, the latest two were that I can now pee again standing up, and we got the dog back from my mother's so I have some company during the days when my wife is working. (Originally, mother wanted to come home to take care of me. How sweet, but, eh, no. It was better to have her have our dog for the 5 days I have been home.)

I also thought I might get an alien tattoo so that the alien would emerge from the scar. Depending on the pathologist report on the tumor, I might get an eight-ball in my lower back instead.
 
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rust_preacher said:
My pharmacist wife corroborates the cipro deal about tendons, seems to be already a known issue.

I am day-to-day getting better in slow steps, the latest two were that I can now pee again standing up, and we got the dog back from my mother's so I have some company during the days when my wife is working. (Originally, mother wanted to come home to take care of me. How sweet, but, eh, no. It was better to have her have our dog for the 5 days I have been home.)

I also thought I might get an alien tattoo so that the alien would emerge from the scar. Depending on the pathologist report on the tumor, I might get an eight-ball in my lower back instead.
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re: patho and continued recovery
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BadExample said:
That's how my doc caught my cancer early. He started testing my PSA 10 years before they are supposed to. It went from nil to 2.5 between tests. He has me in every three moths with full blood work. From the first test where it was rising, but way under the cut off, it didn't increase and we must have done 5 test before it was biopsied. So I had robotic surgery a few months before turning 50, where they normally start testing. It would have passed the test at 2.5, although I had cancer. That would have gone on for who knows how long. The cancer was all contained inside the prostate and I'm as clean as a babies ass now. No measurable PSA. In all likelihood, he saved my life by testing early and often. It would have gone on for years without early detection. Best case, if it wouldn't have killed me and I was destined to die from something else, he saved me from radiation treatment and nasty side effects of that. I worked with a guy who lived and worked into his 90's, he had radiation treatment when he was in his 60's or 70's, and died slowly, painfully and with really bad hips from the radiation. He came to work a lot as he suffered for years, finally they convinced him to retire and he died a year later.

So yes, GET THE TEST!
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This morning I just had my 1st post-radiation psa visit with my urologist. <0.1 which means undetectable in these parts. Hope we can keep it that way. This follows the radical prostatectomy in 2014 and 2 years of clean reports before creeping up early in 2016. P
 
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