Thank you for sharing your story with us. I know it must have been hard to talk about it. This diagnosis can make you feel alone and you telling your story helps others. Sending you positive prayers from Maryland 👍🏻💜
Thank you! I figured I should try to get some good out of it- and I hoped sharing my experience might help someone else. I have another update video coming out shortly. 👍👍
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I am a long time subscriber and have been praying for your recovery and remission!! You will beat this and come back better than ever. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for telling your story. I have just been going through the same thing. Every symptom I have been experiencing indicates enlarged prostate, so I finally made the appointment 2 weeks ago. High PSA, first Urology appointment last week, retaking the PSA and another appointment in November to go over those numbers. There is just too much waiting involved with this and with this darn internet it gives too much time to read all the stories, some good, some bad. Will be 60 in November but my body has just given out on me with so many things. Arthritis through out my whole body, Essential Tremors, Two Back surgeries, Diabetes 2, Asthma, partial collapsed lung, Real bad Hip pain, Lower back pain, and chest issues. So finding out I may have prostate issues really wasn't a surprise to me. I just figured it was the next thing in line. Anyway...Glad I came across your site as it is nice to be able to hear another persons account of what to expect. I pray that everything is getting better for you. Thanks again, and take care. Going to go watch the part 2of your series now. :)
Thanks for your videos on this subject. Was just diagnosed PSA 9 and biopsy showed 4 cores with Gleason 3+4. So I am going through exactly what you are saying. I will be going to MSK center here which is a top cancer center in the northeast. Not sure yet of treatment but looks like I’m going to choose radiation I’m 75 so do not want surgery. I hope you keep on the road to full recovery
Powerful story. A lot is broken in our health care system, I'm sorry that your needs were not met. I appreciate your gentleness and how much you care about your family! Wishing you all the best.
Thank you! It does seem that a lot of healthcare is compartmentalized. I understand the need for specialists but I would like for one doctor to remain my touchstone person through whatever health issues I am dealing with.
@@parristx that's understandable... just keep focusing on the positives. You have a lot on your side. You're young for a start. It sounds like you're getting the best treatment too and responding to it well. 🙂
Hearing the part at the end was comforting for me to hear you are pretty much the poster child for getting through this really well. You got this Parris. Positive vibes coming your way from me since your diagnosis and I will continue to keep that up for you my friend.
Thanks Catrina. They haven't told me yet when the photoshoot is for getting me on that poster. 😊 I still think my improved diet is one of the best things I can count on to feed the good cells and not the bad ones. Food power!!
Thanks John! I have finished the chemo and radiation and am just on Lupron now (for blocking testosterone). Working on recovering from the cancer treatments and getting my health and strength back.
Best wishes! I understand how difficult our Healthcare system is and it's though to go through such a significant life event and not have the medical support we deserve. You are lucky to have your family in every step of the way. Stay strong you can do this, I'm cheering you on!!
Thank you! Family definitely keep you going. And I guess it is on the patient to do the research and make sure they choose the treatment they think is best.
Parris.....catching up with your channel. So sorry you are dealing with prostate issues. Looks like your life style change before your diagnosis was fortuitous. Sharing your story is awesome and so helpful! Sending prayers your way. Take care Parris. Cheers from Lake Jackson!
Thank Orren! I do think my improved diet has helped- both in dealing with the chemo side effects and benefiting more from the chemo in shrinking the tumor. I hope the big freeze coming to Houston later in the week doesn't push things too far below zero in Lake Jackson. Stay warm!
Just found your videos and find them very helpful. My PSA is slightly elevated, 6.7, and in last 2 years has increased from 4ish. I now have a referral and am expecting a biopsy is in my near future. The I known and waiting is causing me a few sleepless nights. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Digital exam didn’t show any problems, lumps, etc. Dr put me on Dutrasteride in addition to the Tamsulosin that I have been on for a few years. If PSA doesn’t come down or plateau I’m sure it will be time for biopsy.
Hi, we've exchanged before. Thx again for your powerful and immensely valuable videos. Some info from a doctor friend (years ago, may not be reliable):"Stage"- indicates progression and contrary to popular impression, no direct relationship with remission/fix potential (Testicular/penile cancers typically get detected in Stage4 and still quite manageable.) "Prostate C": If a man has to get cancer, then this is less aggressive (compared to, for ex, pancreatic); Most people in US w this will pass away with something else unrelated. Take good care, and best to you and yours.
Thanks for the explanation. It is good to have a sense of what one is up against. But it worries me that if someone is told their prognosis is hopeless that it may become a self-fulfilling prophesy because they will in turn have no hope and give up. So I didn't push too hard to have that "Doc, tell it to me straight." conversation.
@@parristx Agree completely. Today is World Cancer Day. I was hoping for an announcement from Pres Biden about enlarging and accelerating the Moonshot program that he started as a VP, but I appreciate that Covid is keeping them busy.
Thanks for this. Being in Fort Worth I know the center you speak of from all of their commercials. Not sure if you are hinting at a good or bad experience. I will keep watching.
Well, I ended up getting my treatment here in Austin, so... I met dedicated and caring people in all the places I have sought treatment, but some of the larger institutions just give the impression of taking a factory-like approach.
Thank you. My brother and I get on the voice chat and do some online gaming together most nights- which is nice since we haven't been able to travel and see each other in well over a year.
It's sad that they didn't do a PSA test every two years as is recommended. This is what it's supposed to be for to catch the cancer early. I just had a biopsy after my MRI indicated a Pi-rads 3 (50/50 chance of cancer). This process was started after my PSA results were high compared to two years ago. I wish you the best of luck.
Thanks Mark. And good luck in whatever treatment course you choose. My doctor and I did discuss the annual PSA testing and that was back when the thinking was that a lot of false positives were causing lots of unnecessary biopsies. But after deciding not to do the test annually it was sort of forgotten for too many years.
It seemed like a cruel irony to me too- but I realized the heart problems and the cancer developed over the same decades of obesity and poor eating. Losing the weight and switching to a whole foods plant-based diet was able to halt and reverse some of the heart damage- can it do the same for the cancer? I feel like I am the sole participant in a science experiment waiting to see.
I don’t understand how your PSA was not done every year . This number should have never been allowed to get that high. I have been getting my PSA for years because it was slowly creeping up. I’m 59 now and I’m scheduled for a biopsy because my PSA went from 4.0 to 4.8 in a year and they noticed a abnormality on my MRI. Hoping for the best
Back 10-15 years ago there was lots of talk about "over testing" and they changed the guidelines for PSA tests in younger men to optional. My doctor suggested not testing yearly and I agreed. I think rescheduling it for every three years or five years or something fell through the cracks. It sounds like they caught your rise in PSA early and I hope everything turns out well for you.
I was diagnosed with 3+4 Gleason score. I got my biopsy sent to Decipher for genomic testing. The results came back as low grade so I am doing active surveillance presently. According to the Decipher test results the chance of my cancer spreading within the next 10 years is 1-2 percent . Just got my yearly MRI which showed no changes .
All men will get this they say. My dad weighs 125lbs. Eats bran flakes coffee breakfast. Apples and peanuts snack. Dinner. Grilled meat and veggies. Bread. Popcorn snack. Maybe a candy bar. He's 78 going through this now. So I don't believe diet contributed always. Some men maybe .
Sorry to hear your dad is having to deal with this. There are a number of factors that can contribute to cancer developing- both environmental and genetic. You are stuck with your genes but there are lots of things on the environmental side that are within our control. And men eating a typical Western diet have higher prostate cancer rates than men in countries where they eat a more traditional diet. This is a quote from a synopsis of "The China Study"- "Considering all the dietary factors, it’s not surprising that a study that compared prostate cancer rates of men in different countries found that men in China had the lowest advanced prostate cancer rates in the world - one in every 100 000 men - while Chinese-American men living in San Francisco had a rate 19 times as high!" Unhealthy eating is right up there with smoking and drinking as a cancer risk in my mind- so to improve my odds I try to avoid all three.
Your primary doctor screwed up!For you mentioned that you have been seeing your primary doctor twice a year, and the last PSA test you had was 12 years ago. Had he done more regular PSA tests at least every few years, you would have been flagged earlier that something was starting to look suspicious, especially as your PSA would increase from one test to the next. Instead you waited way way too long for a PSA test, especially as you get older, and now you got a tiger by the tail. The damn PSA blood test is really inexpensive and easily added when already having other regular blood work. So, you, yes you, not only and especially your primary doctor, has to be more proactive about your healthcare. Whether he is a nice guy and you like him is only a secondary concern, it's his diagnostic capabilities that are the most important. Unfortunately, your primary doctor probably sees a thousand patients a year, so these primary doctors are way over worked. Therefore, it's us aging adults that have to be more thoughtful and push your primary for such PSA tests as we age. We need to find suspicious prostate concerns early for the best outcomes. Good luck on you treatment.
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Thank you for sharing your story with us. I know it must have been hard to talk about it. This diagnosis can make you feel alone and you telling your story helps others. Sending you positive prayers from Maryland 👍🏻💜
Thank you! I figured I should try to get some good out of it- and I hoped sharing my experience might help someone else. I have another update video coming out shortly. 👍👍
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I am a long time subscriber and have been praying for your recovery and remission!! You will beat this and come back better than ever. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you- I appreciate the support!
Thank you for telling your story. I have just been going through the same thing. Every symptom I have been experiencing indicates enlarged prostate, so I finally made the appointment 2 weeks ago. High PSA, first Urology appointment last week, retaking the PSA and another appointment in November to go over those numbers. There is just too much waiting involved with this and with this darn internet it gives too much time to read all the stories, some good, some bad. Will be 60 in November but my body has just given out on me with so many things. Arthritis through out my whole body, Essential Tremors, Two Back surgeries, Diabetes 2, Asthma, partial collapsed lung, Real bad Hip pain, Lower back pain, and chest issues. So finding out I may have prostate issues really wasn't a surprise to me. I just figured it was the next thing in line. Anyway...Glad I came across your site as it is nice to be able to hear another persons account of what to expect. I pray that everything is getting better for you. Thanks again, and take care. Going to go watch the part 2of your series now. :)
Thanks for your videos on this subject. Was just diagnosed PSA 9 and biopsy showed 4 cores with Gleason 3+4. So I am going through exactly what you are saying. I will be going to MSK center here which is a top cancer center in the northeast. Not sure yet of treatment but looks like I’m going to choose radiation I’m 75 so do not want surgery. I hope you keep on the road to full recovery
thinking about you a lot parris i really hope you get through this ok, i’ve been watching your videos for like 6 years
I appreciate that- thank you!
Thanks for sharing your story. Sending positive vibes your way, friend. 😘
Thanks Hannah!
Powerful story. A lot is broken in our health care system, I'm sorry that your needs were not met. I appreciate your gentleness and how much you care about your family! Wishing you all the best.
Thank you! It does seem that a lot of healthcare is compartmentalized. I understand the need for specialists but I would like for one doctor to remain my touchstone person through whatever health issues I am dealing with.
Thank you very much for post your videos. You layed out & explained everything so precisely, answering questions I didn't even know I had.
I could listen to you talk all day. I hope your remaining chemo sessions go well. Stay positive dude.
Thank you. I have one chemo session left now. And it is exciting to be almost finished with it but also a little unnerving.
@@parristx that's understandable... just keep focusing on the positives. You have a lot on your side. You're young for a start. It sounds like you're getting the best treatment too and responding to it well. 🙂
Hearing the part at the end was comforting for me to hear you are pretty much the poster child for getting through this really well. You got this Parris. Positive vibes coming your way from me since your diagnosis and I will continue to keep that up for you my friend.
Thanks Catrina. They haven't told me yet when the photoshoot is for getting me on that poster. 😊 I still think my improved diet is one of the best things I can count on to feed the good cells and not the bad ones. Food power!!
Thanks for the information and pray for full recovery.
Thanks Henry!
Just catching up with the health news about you. Lifting you up in Prayers for healing daily.
Thanks John! I have finished the chemo and radiation and am just on Lupron now (for blocking testosterone). Working on recovering from the cancer treatments and getting my health and strength back.
Thanks for sharing your story. I love your videos ❤❤
Thanks Kamiel!
Best wishes! I understand how difficult our Healthcare system is and it's though to go through such a significant life event and not have the medical support we deserve. You are lucky to have your family in every step of the way. Stay strong you can do this, I'm cheering you on!!
Thank you! Family definitely keep you going. And I guess it is on the patient to do the research and make sure they choose the treatment they think is best.
Parris.....catching up with your channel. So sorry you are dealing with prostate issues. Looks like your life style change before your diagnosis was fortuitous. Sharing your story is awesome and so helpful! Sending prayers your way. Take care Parris. Cheers from Lake Jackson!
Thank Orren! I do think my improved diet has helped- both in dealing with the chemo side effects and benefiting more from the chemo in shrinking the tumor. I hope the big freeze coming to Houston later in the week doesn't push things too far below zero in Lake Jackson. Stay warm!
Great video thanks for sharing your experiences.
Thank you!
Feel better soon 👍🏼
Thank you!
Prayers and hugs to you and yours.
Thank you!
Just found your videos and find them very helpful. My PSA is slightly elevated, 6.7, and in last 2 years has increased from 4ish. I now have a referral and am expecting a biopsy is in my near future. The I known and waiting is causing me a few sleepless nights. Thanks for sharing your experience.
How are you doing so far, im going tru the same
Digital exam didn’t show any problems, lumps, etc. Dr put me on Dutrasteride in addition to the Tamsulosin that I have been on for a few years. If PSA doesn’t come down or plateau I’m sure it will be time for biopsy.
Thank you brother. Scary stuff, going through it now:-/
Hope things go well for you. 💪💪
Hi, we've exchanged before. Thx again for your powerful and immensely valuable videos. Some info from a doctor friend (years ago, may not be reliable):"Stage"- indicates progression and contrary to popular impression, no direct relationship with remission/fix potential (Testicular/penile cancers typically get detected in Stage4 and still quite manageable.) "Prostate C": If a man has to get cancer, then this is less aggressive (compared to, for ex, pancreatic); Most people in US w this will pass away with something else unrelated. Take good care, and best to you and yours.
Thanks for the explanation. It is good to have a sense of what one is up against. But it worries me that if someone is told their prognosis is hopeless that it may become a self-fulfilling prophesy because they will in turn have no hope and give up. So I didn't push too hard to have that "Doc, tell it to me straight." conversation.
@@parristx Agree completely. Today is World Cancer Day. I was hoping for an announcement from Pres Biden about enlarging and accelerating the Moonshot program that he started as a VP, but I appreciate that Covid is keeping them busy.
Thanks for this. Being in Fort Worth I know the center you speak of from all of their commercials. Not sure if you are hinting at a good or bad experience. I will keep watching.
Well, I ended up getting my treatment here in Austin, so... I met dedicated and caring people in all the places I have sought treatment, but some of the larger institutions just give the impression of taking a factory-like approach.
God bless you Parris i know it hit Chris hard he took a few more days off from making Video's but seems good now wishing the very best for you all.
Thank you. My brother and I get on the voice chat and do some online gaming together most nights- which is nice since we haven't been able to travel and see each other in well over a year.
It's sad that they didn't do a PSA test every two years as is recommended. This is what it's supposed to be for to catch the cancer early. I just had a biopsy after my MRI indicated a Pi-rads 3 (50/50 chance of cancer). This process was started after my PSA results were high compared to two years ago. I wish you the best of luck.
Thanks Mark. And good luck in whatever treatment course you choose. My doctor and I did discuss the annual PSA testing and that was back when the thinking was that a lot of false positives were causing lots of unnecessary biopsies. But after deciding not to do the test annually it was sort of forgotten for too many years.
I hope you are doing well.
Cool video tech talk lol yes ok yep oh ok parris
Thanks Scotty.
Your welcome
When you first told us you had cancer. I am like NOOOOO you were taking care of your health. 😔😔😔😔 So disheartening.
It seemed like a cruel irony to me too- but I realized the heart problems and the cancer developed over the same decades of obesity and poor eating. Losing the weight and switching to a whole foods plant-based diet was able to halt and reverse some of the heart damage- can it do the same for the cancer? I feel like I am the sole participant in a science experiment waiting to see.
Just had a biopsy of my prostate. Uncomfortable but necessary.
That sounds like a good attitude to take towards it. 👍
I got my PSA jump from 2.8 to 4.8. Went to urologist and they discovered soft nodule. I am waiting for MRI and biopsy. My free PSA is very low
Thank you ! and you've helped me cope with this new development. God bless
I don’t understand how your PSA was not done every year . This number should have never been allowed to get that high. I have been getting my PSA for years because it was slowly creeping up. I’m 59 now and I’m scheduled for a biopsy because my PSA went from 4.0 to 4.8 in a year and they noticed a abnormality on my MRI. Hoping for the best
Back 10-15 years ago there was lots of talk about "over testing" and they changed the guidelines for PSA tests in younger men to optional. My doctor suggested not testing yearly and I agreed. I think rescheduling it for every three years or five years or something fell through the cracks. It sounds like they caught your rise in PSA early and I hope everything turns out well for you.
How r u doing so far
I was diagnosed with 3+4 Gleason score. I got my biopsy sent to Decipher for genomic testing. The results came back as low grade so I am doing active surveillance presently. According to the Decipher test results the chance of my cancer spreading within the next 10 years is 1-2 percent . Just got my yearly MRI which showed no changes .
All men will get this they say. My dad weighs 125lbs. Eats bran flakes coffee breakfast. Apples and peanuts snack. Dinner. Grilled meat and veggies. Bread. Popcorn snack. Maybe a candy bar. He's 78 going through this now. So I don't believe diet contributed always. Some men maybe .
Sorry to hear your dad is having to deal with this. There are a number of factors that can contribute to cancer developing- both environmental and genetic. You are stuck with your genes but there are lots of things on the environmental side that are within our control. And men eating a typical Western diet have higher prostate cancer rates than men in countries where they eat a more traditional diet. This is a quote from a synopsis of "The China Study"- "Considering all the dietary factors, it’s not surprising that a study that compared prostate cancer rates of men in different countries found that men in China had the lowest advanced prostate cancer rates in the world - one in every 100 000 men - while Chinese-American men living in San Francisco had a rate 19 times as high!" Unhealthy eating is right up there with smoking and drinking as a cancer risk in my mind- so to improve my odds I try to avoid all three.
My dad had cancer in his back and he didn’t know
Sorry to hear that.
And he died from falling over and breaking his back and he had to go to hospital
Metastatic cancer will have 100 in psa
Your primary doctor screwed up!For you mentioned that you have been seeing your primary doctor twice a year, and the last PSA test you had was 12 years ago. Had he done more regular PSA tests at least every few years, you would have been flagged earlier that something was starting to look suspicious, especially as your PSA would increase from one test to the next. Instead you waited way way too long for a PSA test, especially as you get older, and now you got a tiger by the tail. The damn PSA blood test is really inexpensive and easily added when already having other regular blood work. So, you, yes you, not only and especially your primary doctor, has to be more proactive about your healthcare. Whether he is a nice guy and you like him is only a secondary concern, it's his diagnostic capabilities that are the most important. Unfortunately, your primary doctor probably sees a thousand patients a year, so these primary doctors are way over worked. Therefore, it's us aging adults that have to be more thoughtful and push your primary for such PSA tests as we age. We need to find suspicious prostate concerns early for the best outcomes. Good luck on you treatment.
Prostate cancer is the first stage and then it’s real cancer
I think you are saying when it spreads is when cancer usually gets you- and that's true for many cancers.