Hello again Loose Rivets.
Your irritative urinary symtpoms are very common post brachy for the first 3 - 4 months. likewise the need for Flomaxtra - type pills. The need for such pills should reduce soon.
If your disease was Gleason 6 - 7 , you have moderate risk disease that hopefully should be dealt with by the seeds . In the longer term, as a urologist, I would like to see your PSA to down to below 1, after brachytherapy. (You can get a PSA "bounce" up to 2 - 3, about a year to a year and half post treatment).
You should make a point of finding out whether your post treatment dosimetry was adequate (i.e did you get the best possible dosage from the seeds) . This would have been checked by means of a CT or MRI scan done after your seed implant : this is important in knowing that the whole gland has adequate treatment.
Continued good luck to you LR.
Aussie
PS Our surgical results are almost as good as brachy, and much better than the 67 % mentioned. Horses for courses though !
Last edited by aussiepax; 10th Dec 2008 at 10:12.
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