LIVING WITH MCL

So why shouldn't we be able to eat all the sweets (sugar) we want? The only good thing about the rain is I have plenty of time to peruse the internet, and find something worthwhile and relevant to post, instead of the useless dribble I'm usually posting. And today is one of those days. Sugar has always been a concern for me, especially after having my first [and only] PET scan. In order to determine if there is active cancer, a glucose mixture is injected into you, which then migrates to the cancer cells, and is picked up on the scan. So I decided sugar must be bad, and it would be best to severely restrict my intake of sweets in an attempt to stop the progression of my MCL. Now if you love sweets, especially chocolate, like myself, you've probably discovered no matter how good your intentions are, restricting sugar intake can be a daunting task. I did it for quite awhile, but now I pretty much ignore that advice. What's more important, I soon came to believe after lear...

Last month when my oncologist said she was going to order additional tests that hadn't been performed for awhile, my only concern was with the PSA test. I had heard having an enlarged prostate typically produces a false positive, which then requires a very painful biopsy to confirm the diagnosis of prostrate cancer. Assuming Certain I had a large prostrate, because of frequent trips to the bathroom, seemingly mostly at night, I was fully expecting to see a high reading, and kept thinking about this painful test, and what to do about it. But NO, my PSA didn't turn out to be a problem at all. It was only .73 ng/mL, which based on everything I've been able to glean from the internet is a relatively low number. (The lab did not provide a reference range for my test.) So then what is causing those frequent trips to the bathroom at night, you might ask? Could it be the blood glucose level of 106 mg/dL, I reported in my previous post , may not be a lab error after all, especially...