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The hyperbaric is helping to reduce my pain levels. I'm now past my 20th treatment with 40 to go if I need them all. It's a huge time commitment every evening but I watch a movie in the tube every night an that seems to help the time fly by. After taking 4-6 Vicodin/day just to get by, I'm now taking only one when I need it at night. I don't like the Vicodin but for several months the pain was horrendous and made it very difficult to concentrate. I guess Vicodin can be addictive but I worked closely with the doc to try and make sure that didn't happen. I have also been a little more than anxious about my PSA readings which have risen every three months since the Lupron was stopped a year ago (Nov08 - undetectible, Feb09 - 0.05, May09 - 0.16, August09 - 0.31) My reading this week was back down to 0.16!!!!! This is a very good sign. I'm still suffering from minor stress incontinence which started a couple weeks after my TURP surgery back in August (funny as I was continent for a week or so after the catheter was removed and then went downhill as I started healing). For example, this prevented me from bowling today as every time I threw the ball slight leakage would happen. I'm hoping that exercises will help after the hyperbaric as the pain from them makes it all but impossible to clench up down there.
***Important Note - I'm not in anyway implying that Hyperbaric Therapy has reduced my PSA but included the PSA drop as it is very good news for me!
