Everyman’s guide
When you get the diagnosis, there is no doubt about what happens next: fear. This after all is a potentially fatal disease. The body is flooded with adrenaline (a hormone which gets the body ready for flight or fight by increasing the heart rate and blood flow) and cortisol. That’s OK for a short term…
My own experience of the perils of this unseen little gland – ’13 grams of danger’, as one specialist put it – is instructive, because it is fairly typical of what happens. I had been ordered to have the usual battery of tests that most doctors like to see every year or so. My PSA…
When you know you have a problem with your prostate – it has swollen, or is painful, or there is blood coming out in the urine – you need to take action. What are the questions to which you will need to find answers? What is causing the problem? It could be: Prostatitis (inflammation of…