This morning I looked up the results of my blood draw from last Wednesday...
PSA = 0.00 and testosterone = 18.7. The testosterone had gone down from 30 before RT three months ago, but I was expecting there to be a little bounce in my PSA, since it had been held down to .03 for the past year by Lupron.
Why am I not elated to see 0.00 for the first time in my life? The skeptic in me is suspicious that there must be something wrong. After all, I believed my first biopsy four years ago when it came back negative.
At the end of treatment my RO told me that the radiation would continue to kill cancer cells for another six months or so. And I understood that dying cancer cells spew out PSA. And the Lupron only suppresses testosterone
production. So why was there no bounce? Could the radiation have actually killed all the stray cells so quickly?
While I should be popping
open the champagne, instead I'm wondering how could this be? And does this mean that I could skip next week's Lupron shot? Hopefully I will get some answers when I discuss the results with my Uro next week, but OTOH he usually doesn't tell me much anyway.
Somebody please slap me back to my senses and convince me to not look this gift horse in the mouth.
I should be overjoyed with this result, but instead I find myself in bewilderment.
