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Posted 3/13/2012 11:32 PM (GMT 0)
Hi,all last week I have a Rotator cuff and Tear surgery,thanks God I am doing well.

In few months I will go for my seven years psa test most likely I will put another zero.

I hate this f... pc when I see many brothers droping from the zero club.

I wonder if it is just a matter of time or if any of us will never drop from the zero club?

I am just very upset. I do eat and drink what ever I like.If pc will ever rises ,I guest no one will stop it.

It is almost seven years and I feel like sh... every time I go for my psa test

Just expreasing my feelings.  yeah

Posted 3/13/2012 11:36 PM (GMT 0)
Understand your frustrations, but if you are coming up on 7 years with zeros, you are doing absolutely great! Many of us wish we could make that claim. I was only in the zero club for 6 months, as I am passing the 3 1/2 year mark of PC.

Good luck on your other surgical recovery, sounds like a rough operation. Never had anything like that done to me.

David
Posted 3/14/2012 8:20 AM (GMT 0)
After seven years I would think you'd get used to good news idea

Just think positive thoughts...
Posted 3/14/2012 8:56 AM (GMT 0)
I guess a guy has to prepare himself just in case but sounds to me like you beat up on pc and took its lunch money. Let me be the first to say congrats on another zzero
Posted 3/14/2012 9:39 AM (GMT 0)
Gold,

Your test is going to be good. Keep saying that to yourself. You've crossed the major milestones: six weeks, six months, 2 years, 5 years. You are going great.
Posted 3/14/2012 10:07 AM (GMT 0)
Gold,

If you believe Johns Hopkins your chances of having an undetecable PSA are 99.6%.  Other studies I have found are around 99%.  Even if you have BCR you still have SRT as a good option to cure it again.  The last study I read on OC G6 people had only 9 fail out of 480 and every single one of them had successful salavage SRT.  I have seen only 1 guy on this forum with OC G6 have to get SRT.  That's out of roughly 42 people and his SRT was successful.  Also, I read anther study about OC G6 people who went on HT that said after 16 years they still hadn't reached a mean response time.  I know that sometimes no matter how small the chance is for BCR it seems like it doesn't matter because it still is a chance.  But the only thing I can say is that even if you have BCR, then fail SRT, which I have not seen happen to anyone yet with OC G6, and then go on HT, you still probably can put this cancer off for another 20+ years. 

If you want to worry about dying, look up your chances of dying from other cancers like colon, lung and skin or having a heart attack.  Do you exercise?  You will find you have a much higher risk of those and you don't worry about them. 

Are you testing every 6 months or annually?  After 5 years you should easily being going annually.  Heck I read one study at from Sloan Memorial that said every 2 years would be fine for you now.

 

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