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Thing is, once you are out of treatment, you start to feel 'out of the mainstream' and you have less questions to pose. But all of us are always here to answer questions we know something about and reply to personal mails etc.
The beauty of this site though, is the way it set out.
New guys can read our personal stories, and like I did back in 2005, focus in on those guys with a very similar diagnosis and prognosis.
I don't know of another site which has such a good format, such as tables of PSA initial readings, T stagings, age at diagnosis etc.
This site gave me HOPE when all seemed totally bleak in those first days after diagnosis.
Like everyone else has stated I too drop by the site on a daily basis with the odd day that I might miss. I am now 6 months after my HIFU treatment and things are looking up but like all the members on this site we have received so much help for others that we consider that we now want to do our part to help newly diagnosed men with the problems that they must face and that we have already faced. I have also referred this site to many men in my prostate cancer support group.
