Post surgery medications

Travelingman · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: Post surgery medications

I have received a great deal of information on this forum. As I approach my robotic surgery next Monday I find myself getting down to some of the more mondane issues. I have a pretty good medical plan but have poor drug coverage simply because I pay for my own insurance. Since I am on no medications (other than Flowmax which I won't need after surgery), I keep my premiums low by paying 50% of the drug costs. I have the opportunity to change the plan one time. My question is what PC related drugs do I need to take after surgery?
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PSA 18, Gleason 3+3+6, Age 58, Rising PSA since 1999, Biopsy 5% of one core
Robotic surgery 10/26/09 T2B Tumor 30% of prostate involving left & right lobes NOMX Gleason 3+4=7 Urethral Resection margins & resection surface clean Seminal vessicles clean

Replicant · Moderator Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 860

You may need ED drugs. Viagra, Cialis, or Levitra. Those are extraordinarily expensive, even if you have insurance--about $10 a pill for me. Hopefully you can ditch those, too, after a while.
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Replicant

Dx Feb 2006, PSA 9 @age 43
RRP Apr 2006 - Gleason 3+4, T2c, NXMX, pos margins
PSA 5/06 <0.1, 8/06 0.2, 12/06 0.6, 1/07 0.7.
Salvage radiation (IMRT) total dose 70.2 Gy, Jan-Mar 2007@ age 44
PSA 6/07 0.1, 9/07 (and thereafter) <0.1
http://pcabefore50.blogspot.com

Travelingman · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Post surgery medications

Replicant, thank you as usual for your extradordinary devotion to this forum. My dr did mention that I might need Cialis every day. I sure hope that it is not that expensive but I imagine it will be!
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PSA 18, Gleason 3+3+6, Age 58, Rising PSA since 1999, Biopsy 5% of one core
Robotic surgery 10/26/09 T2B Tumor 30% of prostate involving left & right lobes NOMX Gleason 3+4=7 Urethral Resection margins & resection surface clean Seminal vessicles clean

JohnRH · Regular Joined: 23 Aug 2009 Posts: 42 Location: Denver

I went home with a prescrip for generic Vicodin for pain, which I only used for 2 days, and Diptropan for bladder spasms, which I didn't use at all. My insurance includes drugs so I only paid $7 each copay. At my post-op appt. for catheter removal the P.A. gave me about a dozen Cialis samples, to start taking twice a week for erections as much for blood circulation and healing as for sex at this time. I'm only 3 weeks out of surgery and so far no results on that front.
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07/2009 DX with Gleason 4+3, PSA 4.1, age 63 1/2.
09/2009 DaVinci RRP; Gleason 3+4; Stage pT2c, NX, MX; neg surgical margins, neg for extraprostatic extension, neg for seminal vesicle invasion; est. tumor involvement 10% of prostate
12/2009 PSA <0.01, 04/2010 PSA <0.01

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