Welcome larryandangieohio- first time poster

Welcome to HW. In another thread you said:

The surgery itself didn't present any real problems or pain for me! ... It was the associated problems of the co2 and consitpation that was the real source of pain. After a week that finally that finally passed (PUNN INTENDED)!

Age:58 PSA 8/06 8.74, 10/09 7.46, 12/22 6.50

Needle Biopsy 11/10/09: 16/16 cores positive 2 - 85% of tissue,

Gleason score 7 (3+4 with tertiary pattern 5). CT,Bone, and PET scans all negative.

Da Vinci laparoscopic prostatectomy performed on Jan. 07, 2010 at IU Simon Cancer Center… Indianapolis, IN

Prostate size: 42 g Gleason score (primary + secondary): 4 + 3 = 7

Primary pattern (%):4, 60% Secondary pattern (%): 3, 35% Tertiary pattern (if present) (%): 5, 5%

Greatest dimension, largest tumor focus: 34 mm Additional dimensions: 27 x 9 mm

Histologic type: Adenocarcinoma Variant histology present: No Multifocality: Yes

Extraprostatic extension: Yes Seminal vesicle invasion: No Cancer at surgical margin:No

Bladder neck involvement: No Lymph-vascular invasion: No Perineural invasion: Yes

Catheter removed Jan-19-10 Dry Nights 2 pads/day Baseline PSA checkup appt 2/3/10

HI Larry and Angie....welcome to the forum. Sounds like you have a pretty good path report and may the road to recovery be even easier.

Take care

Welcome Larry,

My first post surgery PSA was at 6 weeks.  Hope things go well for you,

Keep healing,

Dan

Larry, like most things concerning PC, there is no standard, not even for that first post surgery PSA test. My doc did the old school of waiting 3 months post surgery to get a new base level.

I am hopeful that a zero at 6 weeks says that it was all in the prostate, but that is wistful thinking, I think. Made me feel good anyway.

Weloome to the club.

Goodlife