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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: DoeNut]
#1535442
11/25/15 03:27 AM
11/25/15 03:27 AM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 9,008 Colbert County
Teacher One
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 9,008
Colbert County
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Once you reach 40 every male should have a checkup every six months. It can save your life. My Dr. monitors my psa numbers to keep a check on my prostrate every six months. My numbers have always been high and high numbers usually indicate a possibility of prostrate cancer. With early detection there is almost a 100% success rate.
Just three weeks ago during my scheduled checkup, my numbers had gone extremely high up to an 8.3. The Dr. scheduled me an appointment with a specialist and they did another test on the psa numbers. This time they were up to 16.5 and he scheduled me a biopsy of the prostrate for yesterday and I had it done. I will not get the results back until next Tuesday afternoon. If it is just minor problems and not cancer, it will be no problem. If it is cancer it has been detected at an early stage and is completely treatable. I plan to have the entire prostrate removed if it is cancer. I am not fooling with it at all. I plan on being here for at least another 20 years and the scheduled checkups were what may have saved my life. Don't play around with your life! B
I can't stand a thief.
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: DoeNut]
#1535460
11/25/15 03:39 AM
11/25/15 03:39 AM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 12,918 Old Florida
Geno
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 12,918
Old Florida
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To each his/her own.
I'm good. Emergency medical care is fine if needed but I'm usually good with sewing myself up if I can reach it with both hands, splinting minor non-displaced breaks, removing any weird growths up to about an inch, etc.
I just feel that all that invasive early care for stuff I am probably going to have anyway is stirring a pot that would do better if left alone.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: Geno]
#1535567
11/25/15 04:49 AM
11/25/15 04:49 AM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,652 Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,652
Montgomery
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To each his/her own.
I'm good. Emergency medical care is fine if needed but I'm usually good with sewing myself up if I can reach it with both hands, splinting minor non-displaced breaks, removing any weird growths up to about an inch, etc.
I just feel that all that invasive early care for stuff I am probably going to have anyway is stirring a pot that would do better if left alone. Are you really being serious? Just so I'm clear here, you think preventive care is a waste of time? Dr. B
AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA Member of Team 10 Point 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris 1938-2017 UGA Class of 1960 BS/MS Forestry LTJG, USNR
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: DoeNut]
#1535577
11/25/15 04:55 AM
11/25/15 04:55 AM
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Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,772 Pinson
Sulli
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,772
Pinson
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FYI it's your prostate (gland) not prostrate ( laying prone). Carry on
ROLL TIDE!!!!!!
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1535592
11/25/15 05:02 AM
11/25/15 05:02 AM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,850 Dothan/Hartford,Al
87dixieboy
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,850
Dothan/Hartford,Al
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To each his/her own.
I'm good. Emergency medical care is fine if needed but I'm usually good with sewing myself up if I can reach it with both hands, splinting minor non-displaced breaks, removing any weird growths up to about an inch, etc.
I just feel that all that invasive early care for stuff I am probably going to have anyway is stirring a pot that would do better if left alone. Are you really being serious? Just so I'm clear here, you think preventive care is a waste of time? Dr. B Doc he has just never had anything happen to him before to scare him. When that happens he will sing a different tune.
Only accurate rifles are interesting.
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: 87dixieboy]
#1535621
11/25/15 05:15 AM
11/25/15 05:15 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 15,982 Brierfield
Beadlescomb
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 15,982
Brierfield
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To each his/her own.
I'm good. Emergency medical care is fine if needed but I'm usually good with sewing myself up if I can reach it with both hands, splinting minor non-displaced breaks, removing any weird growths up to about an inch, etc.
I just feel that all that invasive early care for stuff I am probably going to have anyway is stirring a pot that would do better if left alone. Are you really being serious? Just so I'm clear here, you think preventive care is a waste of time? Dr. B Doc he has just never had anything happen to him before to scare him. When that happens he will sing a different tune. I just wonder if he is checking his own prostate lol
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: DoeNut]
#1535626
11/25/15 05:18 AM
11/25/15 05:18 AM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 12,918 Old Florida
Geno
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 12,918
Old Florida
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I've been to the emergency room with chest pains absolutely sure I was having a heart attack (costochondritis from martial arts class I taught earlier in the day), I've been to get things sewn up that were out of reach and needed it, I've been to the eye clinic for an eyeful of construction adhesive (don't ask how that got there), had a node removed from left flank that was too deep for me to get to and similar things.
Preventative medicine that is invasive I am just not interested in. Especially if it's cancer. I've watched friends who were treated aggressively and friends who weren't treated at all and a few in between and I am convinced that someone like myself would be better served by not treating it.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: DoeNut]
#1535731
11/25/15 06:24 AM
11/25/15 06:24 AM
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Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,793 alabama
judge sharpe
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,793
alabama
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As a prostate cancer survivor, I urge anyone who has one to get it checked out regularly. I did not have a problem until I did, it was caught early, removed robotically, Then I had radiation because my PSA was still up. Now I have my PSA checked every 6 months to be sure there nothing going on. Now prostate check is not the only thing a Dr. uses a DRE (Digital Rectal Examination) to check for. There are hemorrhoids, rectal and anal cancer and possibly blood in the stool.Remember Farrah Fawcett? She died of an anal cancer that should have been caught and removed before it got serious. Then there is the colonoscopy that men and women should have every few years. Its as pain in the you know where, but if any little polyps are found and removed you will not develop colon cancer later. Sure, some of this is embarrassing, but it beats going through life with a bag to chit into. Just think of the exams your wife or girlfriend goes through every year, are you less of a man than she is?
Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees Stonewall Jackson Hug your loved ones often, Life is short even on its longest days. I don't see the glass as half full or half empty. I just finish it and order another.
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Re: Going to doc for regular checkups ...
[Re: DoeNut]
#1535741
11/25/15 06:32 AM
11/25/15 06:32 AM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,953 Round ‘bout there
Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,953
Round ‘bout there
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Ignoring medical care is f'king stupid. But to each his own.
I go each year for a checkup. We have a family history of heart disease and cancer. We have good insurance and I don't mind a minor inconvenience of a checkup once or twice a year, EKG, peeing in a cup, bloodwork or whatever to make sure things are OK.
"Oh, I don't want someone poking around my butt!" Fine, get cancer and die an agonizing death.
"Ah, it's just a little stomach pain." Fine, have a burst appendix and get sepsis.
"Eh, it's just a really bad headache." No problem, have a stroke and be an invalid on the goverment tit.
Judge Sharpe is right, too, about women's examinations. Men have it easy. If men had to have their testicles squashed between two metal plates to try to detect cancer like women do for breast exams or lay on our back and have our ass wrenched open with a metal spreader to check for prostate cancer, we'd have had a cure for both of them about 30 years ago.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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