If are being treated for prostate cancer with radiation can you still have sex?

Well George, Can you handle an answer from a guy who actually HAS prostate cancer instead of all these yahoos that are guessing or just trying to be smart a..es? I have prostate cancer and yes you can have sex while taking radiation but I would be amazed if you felt like it. I certainly wasn’t in any shape to do so. There IS a treatment when you are told to avoid close contact with your partner due to radiation and that is for several weeks after Prostate Seed Implantation (I had it and I am not even going to TRY to spell the medical term for the therapy!). For several weeks after the implant you are radioactive and are told to stay away -across the room – from pregnant women and not to hold babies on your lap. This is important to a lot of patients undergoing this treatment because (as a lot of the jerks that have posted here would know nothing of) most of the patients are of an age to have adult daughters and grandchildren. The seed implant procedure was followed, in my case, with external beam radiation which is similar to having a super x-ray of the cancer for 21 days straight. The seed implant had already messed me up pretty good and the external beam finished the job. Like I said, having sex became a bit problematic.

P.S. I don’t light up like a fire fly at night and my kids and grandkids aren’t glowing in the dark after giving me a hug.

Additional p.s. The site reccomended by justme talks about more up-to-date procedures since I had my treatment. I wish docs had been using it when I was treated!

yeah but you probably wont be firtile

I suggest asking your DR this one and not listen to people on YA for something as serious as cancer questions……

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_2_4X_How_Is_Prostate_Cancer_Treated_36.asp?rnav=cri

Go there, theres lots of information

my god man, can’t you restrain that thing even for a minute, you have cancer pal!