Thanks for all the aloha guys---- This forum has been so worthwhile to so many of us.........I wish each of you the best........I'm still learning alot out here!!!...
Always a relief..... 13 years post prostatectomy -- lucky and grateful just got the results-- <0.04 I don't come out here super often but you lads have helped me out time and again--- Gracias!...
Good job B Bum!! Enjoy it----...
Congrats Ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love it-----...
My results were expressed in pg/ml. Free T. so..... I am off scale low at 4.1 pg/ml. My test, which was a screening by my prim care doc, was drawn at 2:30 pm. I'm now going to my uro in a week or...
Paxton!! Huge thanks-- I will track down the Dr. you mention. I see conflicting studies about the safety of T therapy and it's relationship to cardiovascular disease and Pca. My issue is that in the...
Thank you Sailor!! I will check all of that out--- making a uro appointment today as well--- Craig...
Im 66 sorry! 11 years post RP !!!!!!!!!!!!...
I am 21 years post RP and all is well.....except.....last year or so a marked level of fatique particularly my legs. My primary doc sent me for a free testosterone blood test. Results: 4.1...My...
Might be nice if this was a permanent thread out here?...
Thanks Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
10 years today!!...
Happy to report another 0, 10 years post RP from City of Hope. (<0.1) Thanks for being there lads, you guys have talked me off the ledge many times---...
Billy bob@388 Yes I take 3 0z of unsweetened pomegranate juice daily and also a pomegranate supplement This was based on that paper from a few years back regarding reduction of PSA. I stopped taking...
Many thanks to all of you--- although I don't post alot-- I read you guys all the time and deeply appreciate your insights! Thanks for the thoughtfulness-- Craig10...
I almost embarrassed to report this out here. I have been fretting and whining out here for a few weeks about my 10 year post RP psa retest. You guys have all been very helpful in soothing my angst....
Thanks Robert! Great video....
Old Beek- Many thanks. Your insights are comforting. I feel the same way—- I had a hard time finding Meyers paper But I’ll try again! Craig...
Tom— Great numbers!! You’re fine Eat veggies Eat fruit Enjoy life I worry too But your numbers, like mine 10 years out are real good A little bouncing around like that is perfectly normal. There are...
Good one clocknut The perennial tradition applies to everyone...
Halbert! Many thanks That was very useful I think I worry a bit too much and probably ought to take this as undetectable as my uro suggests....
Thanks Matt I thought about that but he said He wouldn’t recommend doing anything about a rise anyway till it got to 0.2 I asked him if there was a varying school of though on that that he respected...
I guess I should have been more clear on my last post with my question—— I am wondering what folks think out here? Does my urologist seem correct? In my case, with this retest being <0.06 should I...
Rocky— like all here have said, thank you, I am moved by your thoughts. Yep, we are all on the same path, as someone I admire once said,”we are all just walking each other home”. I don’t care what...
I had my Uro appointment today. His response.... Dre good You are still undetectable You probably have bounced around before under the test floor See you in a year He agrees I should probably get the...
Thanks-- Yes, he must have slipped up or the lab did the wrong test I guess. I'll ask him on Friday!...
In The Shop--- I will take your advice and stick to a single lab----...
Whoa guys thank you for those insights! I did call the lab and it was like a spy novel trying to get anything out of them. I was trying to learn about the floor of the test. Soon enough, as my...
And---- why the heck does my retest have a less than < on the result? I've never noticed a less than <.06 before....
In the Shop--- seriously think I have no signif issue yet?? My last test <.06 and supposedly the ultra sensitive test...
I hear ya Go Bucks-- I guess my biggest worry is that my PSA tests are not saying .02 The .05 is new to me and I worry alot.....am I worrying too much?...
I have always been undetectable since 2010 RP. always <0.1 at a certain lab (Lab Corp) Last year at a new lab (Primex) it was a 0.01 Then a few months ago Primex reported 0.05 So my Uro ordered a...
In the shop Jasper Island time Halbert I thank you wonderful guys for your words of encouragement and information, all of that will reduce my anxiety —I will retest and get back to you —-thanks fellas...
My psa has mostly been <0.1 undetectable Recently I've used the ultra sensitive test and I got a .01 -And 3 months later a .05 I'm 10 years post rp with good patho 3+4=7 My doc has scheduled a retest...
Update-- I spoke with a URO today who looked over my CT report--- He said its a small stone-- no worries---- yikes--- thanks everyone for your thoughtful and useful comments-- I'll see my other URO...
During my last annual psa check in a routine urine analysis, they found 3 red blood cells. Thats called microscopic hematauria. I've had this a few other times over the years so.... my URO doc, every...
Thanks Old B-- Im down in Orange County. I thought that even post RP we could still get a slight psa rise with remaining tissue in the bed area etc??? I like your advice about getting on with it!...
Go Bucks-- Good point-- thanks for this-----...
Thanks Marc and all for great input!!...
THANKS Old Beek-- I will get Myers article---- I probably should have just never gone to Primex for the different assay and reporting.......also--- I had signif sex atciviy well within 48 hrs of the...
yes-- I think you're right...
Thanks Rick--- I am almost 10 years out from the Da Vinci RP from Dr. Kawachi at Hope. Zero club since then.....til this test....of 0.05 I do know about the salvage options but til now never thought...
Update-- My Uro just ordered me to get another psa test and see him on October 25..... I will go to the same lab as before so I get the same test etc...... Waiting as we all know aint...
it's 0.05 not a less than result----- Primex has, in the past, reported it both ways--- this is 0.05.... my highest in almost 10 years...
I'll check--- thanks...
Pratoman-- NO--- I have always had a very low level and it has always been considered undetectable...for almost 10 years...
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sadly--- I have used two different labs and EACH uses a different assay than the other....
I just got a new annual psa result. It is 0.05..... I know it's low and only a very small rise....but still......any thoughts?...
Always grateful for the annual results-- it's humbling as always to be this vulnerable.....I am thankful for the 0.01 PSA result I got today now 9 years post Davinci RP from City of Hope in...