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Thread #84216   Message #1554119
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
01-Sep-05 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Prostate cancer
Subject: RE: BS: Prostate cancer
Missed diagnoses are made for this and other diseases all the time. Sadly, it takes a huge amount of time, money and MANY excruciatingly thorough tests to get the real answers.

Keep in mind, if you eat a poison ivy pizza, and then have a reduction in size of your prostate, you could easily assume that Poison Ivy Pizza cured the problem. You go on Oprah's show and say that. Soon, everyone wants that kind of pizza. Pizza Hut puts it on the menu and makes a bundle. THEN the tales begin about those who ate poison Ivy Pizza who got the disease too and then died from their prostate cancer anyhow.

People, there is a whole lot of very questionable and erroneous alternative medicine info ideas running rampant out there. Be realistic and see clearly that sometimes we are too quick to grasp at straws. Go with the ones who are doing the real research for the best leads. And then proceed from there...

My prostate cancer was only found when, after a slew of spinal surgeries over nearly ten years, while in hospital for another spinal surgery, I had a major MS exacerbation. Only then did any doctor think of possible MS as the reason for the same symptoms I had the surgeries for!

Back to the cancer! While in the hospital for two months that time, my urination slowed down more. I had a T.U.R.P. almost as an afterthought, to relieve those enlarged prostate symptoms. A routine check of the pieces left over after surgery found the cancer. Guess I was a lucky guy to've had all those maybe unnecessary neck vert fusions!? They led to the cancer diagnosis. ;-)

BUT now I've got a very itchy bowel track!!!!!

Any ideas on how I can scratch ??

Art