Did you experience a significant amount of stress previous to being diagnosed with PC?

1) Yes I did.
2) No I did not.
3) Not sure.
4) Other possible answers.

I sure did! Still suffering from it before every PSA test.

Good things to you.

Mag

 

So far the poll results seems to be split down the middle 6 yes and 6 no. I really believe there is a relationship between the two and I really hope we can get more input from as many posters as possible.

I'd have to say no even though the doc told me after the biopsy I had a 90% chance of having it....It really didnt hit me until about a month after being diagnosed....guess I was stuck in the denial phase.

FoxRun,

Misunderstood your question. I thought you were asking if I was stressed out by the process of getting checked out for prostate cancer up to the point where I received a positive biopsy result and was 'diagnosed'. I was. But that wasn't what you were asking.

I didn't habitually worry about PC before my urologist started talking about the possibility.

I spent several years either unemployed or underemployed in the decade leading up to my diagnosis. I suppose that could have contributed. PC responds to hormones and cortisol could easily have an effect. On the other hand there doesn't seem to be a lot of research and what research there is gives complicated results. (here is a sample.)

Steve n Dallas said...
"Did you experience a significant amount of stress previous to being Diagnosed with PC?"


Are you asking about the Days, Weeks, Months and Years before going to the Doctor?

Or are you maybe asking about the time period after the Biopsy?

Good question.....the poll is more related to the theory that stress may initiate PC in most/some people so the question is more geared towards before going to the Doctor.......we all know how stressful the post biopsy is...lol

Stress in the past few months has (had) been pretty non existent for me.  However, if you go beyond that 2010, 2011 and part of 2012 then the stress was extreme.  Loss of my mom, family issues related to that loss (settling the estate with my relatives..talk about nasty), loss of job, new job sucked big time.  I had a good psa in late 2010 and earlier and then the bad number in the summer of 2012.  And that is when all the stress was occurring.  Uro estimated I have had PCa for about two years...so maybe there is a stress factor...plus a family history doesn't help.

Snowbound said...
I said no. I don't think I've had unusual levels of stress in my life. I believe that it was just genetics for me, my father had it as did my mother's 2 brothers (all a lot older than when I was diagnosed).

I think that I probably had the tumor for a long time. When I was 42 (8 yrs before my diagnosis) I had a vasectomy and afterwards I had to provide a semen sample so they could verify that it was successful. I remember being surprised at the time by the amount I produced (I don't normally measure it into a container). At the time I thought it was just a factor of aging but in hindsight I think it may have been due to the tumor.

How would the large amounts of semen be related to PC?

I to had a vasectomy!

Yes I did but really only recently. I quit my job of 16 years right at my diagnosis because we had a recent change in management that were in my eyes doing a very poor job. I had bigger things to worry about.

They didn't last very long either...

Tony

FoxRun said...

How would the large amounts of semen be related to PC?

It was a drop in production that I noticed.