November Tests

Some Saturday this month, I go in for my annual master health blood work (cholesterol, liver function, sugar, etc) for my PCP. They are open saturday mornings for blood work, I'll call tomorrow to find out which saturday this month. Then, Nov 30 I go for my 9 month post surgery PSA. It's all good.

I'll add some good news to the November Tests
Just received my latest numbers... drum roll please...
PSA <0.05 testosterone around 720's
Todays is another good day!

I just had a draw 3 hours ago at Mayo:
Still undetectable!
C-11 results are not available but should be good also.

Nice #'s too young! Is that testosterone # right? Wow, it came back strong... Good for you!

16 and thats after my sixth session of taxotere. zytiga is next.

Greg, in my case the counting started as of surgery day. My next blood draw will actually be at 9 months plus almost 2 weeks.

Greg, not sure what the standard is, but my experience was same as Halbert. 6 weeks from surgery, the 3/6/9/ and next up, 12 months after surgery

That's good t know 2young4this

I know there are other threads on here on testosterone recovery but I don't think they talked about guys like us trying to recover our T while still in our 40's! Hopefully a good sign, that is if I get the Lupron/Casodex vacation I'm holding out for next year.

Halbert, I had the same profile as you for years. Cholesterol ok, HDL low, and high (very high) triglycerides. I finally got it under control, but it was a little late, and I now have coronary artery disease. If I were your age, and could get a mulligampn, I wouldn't have waited as long as I did ypto do something besides meds. When it's genetic, there is only so much that meds can do.
You should be very focused on diet (and exercise on a consistent basis. I could give you some ideas if you want, but you probably know already, and if you don't, see a nutritionist.
If you do need some tips, let me know, I've learned so much over the last few years.

Good luck on the PSA, BUT YOU WONT NEED LUXK WITH YOUR (our) pathology

Went for my 4 week check. My PSA went up from 3.35 in October to 3.51 this week. That is a little lower than it was in August. Does this mean the Zytiga is starting to lose effect? I hope not. Or is this maybe a bounce and not significant?

Right at 6 months since RP, and 8 years since diagnosis. First PSA post op was <0.1. Since then I read a lot of posts with more sensitive testing. Got my draw yesterday, and results today 0.015. Feels even quite better than <0.1. I have continued with what's essentially a macrobiotic diet and vigorous yoga practice that I stuck to in my pre-op WW years. Can't imagine changing that now. BMI 19.5.

Just got home from third session of taxotere.

PSA is down to 18.4, so another 35% drop from 3 weeks ago. Just as important, Alkaline Phosphate I'd down from 661 to 473 still a ways to go, but numbers are trending down.

Well it's a new world for me ...

Testosterone! = 135 (3 months after dropping Lupron/Zytiga)
PSA = 0.25

Don't know if that's OK or not; since i still have a prostate, I know I'll have some PSA now. We're watching it to see if it is stable or starts increasing/doubling ...

Ray

Pratoman,

Sure. I was told about it maybe 15 years ago by a trainer. It worked for me. I had tried niacin and I was training for triathlons but nothing helped. I have a long family history of bad cholesterol and early heart attacks (50's), so I tried everything to increase HDL.

Currently, I am pretty much a vegan, and I also take a lot of fish oil (for triglycerides). I also take Lipitor. HDL is in now in the low to mid 40s (was in low to mid 30s). BMI average (6'0"; 170 lbs). I am 69 y.o.

Here are a couple of articles concerning weight lifting and HDL that I just googled;
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3824017
healthyliving.azcentral.com/cardio-weights-raising-hdl-4308.html

I can not tell you why weights worked (for me), and maybe weights do not work for everyone, but folks who worry about low HDL might want to give weights a try. So far I have outlived my father and his father and grandfather by from 10 to 15 years (knock on wood).

Hope this helps.

Ps. Oh yeah, I consume one drink a day (usually wine), sometimes two .... I read somewhere a dink a day helps HDL ... or maybe it was an apple!?

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