I was diagnosed with early prostate cancer in June 2023, when a shadow was spotted during a scan for my heart issues. I guess that I'm lucky it was spotted early and that treatment followed after tests to confirm. I started with a hormone treatment by injections at 3 monthly intervals, later requesting radiotherapy treatment, which had been offered from the start. I completed the radiotherapy within 6 weeks and now have follow up interviews with PSA results.

I had no idea how to react to the diagnosis, or the treatments and still don't know how to react now. I didn't feel unwell or disadvantaged in any way. I was receiving treatments and that was that. Any side effects or changes I've experienced and still experiencing are accepted as being much better than outcomes if I hadn't received treatment.

Like others, I suffered weariness after each course of radiotherapy and still get very weary now. I have a few bathroom inconveniences every now and then and am learning to control those. Despite love and sympathy from my family I sometimes have feelings of loneliness. 

That's enough for now. How do others cope?

Mike R