All Good, but...

Well I just got home from Dr. Vogelzang's office and I am still in remission. I won't go into all the details but you can read them at my website in my signature. There was an interesting twist in this doctor's visit. I suffer from hypogonadism and it predates my therapies. Dr. V took a T level test in march of 2007. It was just 218. My brother is currently undergoing testosterone therapy as his was as low as 150.

There is a real irony here. When I had my first PSA test, I was at the doctors office for ED. ED is a side symptom of hypogonadism. That doctor asked if I had had a physical since turning 40 and I had not. It was that day that my first PSA test ever was done. Not only was my T levels low, but my PSA was near 20. I go in for something very personal and simple to address and it just may have saved my life?

PSA history:
October 3, 2006 19.8
October 10, 2006 18.9
November 27, 2006 13.9
Surgery February 16, 2007
February 28, 2007 0.9
March 12, 2007 0.1
March 23, 2007 <0.1
May 16, 2007 <0.1
July 18, 2007 <0.1
September 19, 2007 <0.1
January 29, 2008 <0.1
May 9, 2008 <0.1
September 17, 2008 <0.1
January 13, 2009 <0.1
May 11, 2009 <0.1 T=50
October 7, 2009 <0.1 T=21 PAP=0.3
January 4, 2010 <0.1 T=128 PAP=0.4
May 18, 2010 <0.1 T=230 PAP Untested
November 3, 2010 0.02 <Undetectable> T=263

Many blessings to all!

Tony

I went to a free Saturday morning health screening for men and they found the nodules on my prostate..Can't help wonder what would have happened had I not been screened then...

Thanks guys!
I can't help but wonder if I had normal T levels that my disease would have been further advanced. Just very ironic...indeed!

Tony

Tony.........you know I'm currently immersed in whether to supplement my "T" levels, so I've been doing a lot of researching/reading. Some of the more recent studies point to insuffucient "T" levels as being less protective against PCa, citing evidence that a large number of guys who are diagnosed (who know their T levels) tend to be below normal or in the low range.  So, I'm wondering if your levels would have been higher, would the reverse have been true? It's a rhetorical question, I realize, and there is no answer-----just postulating based on the latest studies...........but hey, congrats on the PSA level at this point!!

Arnie

That's great news! Congrats.

Jerry,
I'm so new on this forum, and I posted a topic "Mystery Diagnosis" in regards to my mom. I just read one of your older posts, and just like my mom, you had drug induced hepatitis from Lipitor. We are so puzzled by this, and her situation got better for a few weeks and her enzymes went back to high levels again. She's been checked for Auto-Immune and the results were negative, but the doctors think she has the symptoms or the pattern for AIH. I wish you can read my post and give me some ideas. Thanks.