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Posted 9/9/2012 2:24 AM (GMT 0)
I keep seeing various numbers which are supposedly considered by a few of our resident experts as the zero status. Exactly what numbers are considered ZERO to be included in the "zero club". My last PSA was 0.308 and now, after reading some very current posts, I am NOT considered as being in the "Zero Club".. Someone please help this old coot understand once and for all, exactly what is really considered ZERO!!
I just read that 0.2 or 0.3 may be in need of more treatments???
Maybe I should just stay off Healing Well" and forget about this concern/worry about my 0.308 numbers........
Posted 9/9/2012 2:45 AM (GMT 0)
ER,

You had seeds so your PSA will not reach what surgical intervention should. You are indeed a member of the "zero" club. By looking at the trend in your numbers, they seem to be hovering around the same 0.2 to 0.3 mark.

swim

Posted 9/9/2012 3:03 AM (GMT 0)
Bob:

Zero Club = PSA < 0.10 is undetectable - there is no such thing as an absolute zero.
-different treatments result in different levels and goals.

- though not a zero club member - you can certainly be a member of the go for the low club.

take care,
Bronson
Posted 9/9/2012 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
bob -- the zero club isn't open to us radiation guys.  i'm going to start my own club -- the erection club cool .

ed

 

Posted 9/9/2012 1:25 PM (GMT 0)
"Erection" club? Is it HARD to be a MEMBER?
Posted 9/9/2012 3:38 PM (GMT 0)
The first rule of erection club:  you do not talk about erection club.
Posted 9/9/2012 4:53 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for all the info/responses. I am very happy to say that although I am now going on 76 years of age, am happy with my current PSA results, I still have NEVER had any of the dreaded ED problems that I keep hearing so much about and I can still take a leak like a teenager without the use of any meds. Of course the libido has slipped just a tiny bit but what the heck. My goal is to reach my 85th birthday and my Doc indicated that I have an excellent chance of reaching that goal. :-)
Posted 9/9/2012 6:17 PM (GMT 0)
It is pretty much a given that you may not be a "Zero Club" member if you still have a prostate, no matter what has been done to it. Whatever prostate tissue remains will generate some PSA.

On the other hand, if your PSA is within the objective of the treatment you had, and is stable or declining, I think the guys will let you pull up to the bar. It is, after all, just a way to celebrate the guys who have good numbers at present.

Those of us with no prostate, but a rocketing PSA, have to just get up and quietly leave a seat for the new guys until HT kicks in

cry  

But I will be back - smilewinkgrin

Have trimix, will ....

Posted 9/10/2012 3:43 AM (GMT 0)
Bob,

They wouldn't let me in the zero club either when I finally got to a zero in the ones place.
Posted 9/10/2012 5:53 AM (GMT 0)
Er Bob, why only 85, Im going for late 90's to a 100 and Im 7 years younger than you. You're fine, enjoy your life…..
Posted 9/10/2012 4:53 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for all the encouragement and it really does help this old/somewhat more mature guy.
From all I have read, it appears that most of us PC'ers and "former" PC guys will croak from something other than what the PC has caused.
We just have to have regular check-ups, eat right, get a little more than the minimum amount of exercise and we CAN still be around for a LONG time.
Posted 12/18/2013 11:51 AM (GMT 0)
I had my Dec 2013 PSA test done this week. The result came back <0.1. The nurse in the doctors office said that's as low as it goes. They don't report anything less than 0.1.

So now can I be admitted to the zero club?
Posted 12/18/2013 2:11 PM (GMT 0)
Since not all labs do psa beyond tenths, .1 is considered 0.
Bob
Posted 12/18/2013 2:19 PM (GMT 0)
fulltlt,

You're IN! That is the result we all want.

Congrats!
Posted 12/18/2013 3:40 PM (GMT 0)
Hey fulltlt, good to hear from you again! And BIG CONGRATS on the new low - you big zero you!

Here's to lots more of the same.
Posted 12/18/2013 4:35 PM (GMT 0)
ErBob, you are in the zero club, in that your Psa has stabilized within the parameters of primary radiation tx, which varies from men to men.
Fulltilt you have been a member since your Sept psa results and as your trend has been on a continuous downward, I hereby, by the power invested in me, E Pluibus Unum,etc, etc, grant you,
a lifetime membership of same. But then I am just a man behind a curtain, so pay no attention to me. Er ah, but when the curtain is lifted……..
Posted 12/19/2013 2:35 AM (GMT 0)
I wonder how Er bob is doing, the majority of thread is over a year old
Posted 12/19/2013 2:53 AM (GMT 0)
Bob, being a zero is overated.....I know because I was one in junior high school!

Your PSA is right where it should be and you are welcome in any club I can join. Here's to 85 and beyond!

Jack
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