I haven't written about this before mainly because it's not related to my myeloma, just general health. I've been developing signs of prostate trouble for some months now and finally decided to take it to my GP. His first action was to order some blood tests which all came back encouragingly normal, including the PSA. I had a face-to-face with him a couple of days ago and he did the infamous finger thing. Not as unpleasant an experience as one is led to believe, and all done very professionally. Anyway he immediately declared a benign enlarged prostate and put me on medication for it (the alpha-blocker Tamsulosin 400 micrograms daily, which I believe is the standard opening move). No side-effects yet, but only taken it for two days so far. So, there you go. Not unexpected at my age. Just hoping the Tamsulosin does help with the symptoms. Dr.Singh seems very enthusiastic about it, and he seems to be avery good GP to me.
On the respiratory / CPAP side of things I contacted Bromfield a few days ago as requested to chase the referral and they said yes, you're definitely in the system, we'll get to you at some stage... Well, fortunately it's not life-threatening!
That's about it for this month. I'll be back when there's something new to write about.
Nearly forgot - the NHS super-efficient admin has now given me two separate appointments for my next face-to-face with my haematology consultant, within a few days of each other. So much of Monday will probably disappear down the phone trying to sort that out...
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