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Re: horseback riding

Well, I was able to resume riding my dirt bike 6 months after my daVinci procedure. No problems what so ever!! I wore a thin pad the first few times, but do not need one any longer. I am very pleased with the procedure and outcome. (My surgeon had done over 400 procedures)

Re: horseback riding

Wow Paul unreal that such things happen, would you care to mention what happened, I know I would listen. Also, perhaps that law firm is affilated with the docs or has a brother whom is a doc, you never know about politics. I would get a second opinion from another law firm, there is a law firm that specializes in PCa patient issues and I heard they have won cases. It used to called accesswatch or such, maybe google searching would help.
I try to tell people to be ware of docs in general, atleast be skeptical and ask alot of them questions, this is why.

Not wanting to start any firestorms, but patients have to realize the total fight of PCa is for us on many fronts.

Re: Re: horseback riding

Bob,
Two law firms refused my case. The one I mentioned specializes in medical work and they even have one lawyer who is familiar with prostate cases. You would think that failing to remove all of the gland would be actionable; especillay sisnce the doc didn't give me the choice of open or the robot because he needed more patients on the robot to gain experience. This just makes me more depressed.

Paul A, USA

Re: horseback riding

Sorry to hear of your diagnosis.

If you were diagnosed with low risk cancer - Gleason 6, PSA <10, stage 1, etc. all treatments are open to you. While having the whole thing out is likely to provide the most cure, it is probably the most likely to leave you with continence issues. Many men suffer from stress incontinence afterward where jolts cause some urine loss.

If you are low risk, you have time to explore all your options. I suspect a dedicated horseback rider might find other treatments better suited to his lifestyle. Surveillance is an option as well.

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