Hello ANB, I am sorry about the predicament you find yourself in at this time... In my brief time on this forum I have read the history of many, many men who are surviving with this disease even at...
To all... Happy, Prosperous and...Healthy New Year!...
Hi MacroMan, It has been a revelation to me how sensitive PSA values are to a variety of regional disease processes (Pca, UTI, Prostatitis, and combinations of all of the above...etc...). After...
Thanks Tall Allen......
Hi all... I just wanted to post this follow up if for no other reason then to confirm that my spiking PSA was "most likely" due to infection as Tall Allen and others suggested. I left off when I...
Hi... May be prone to chronic prostatitis due to recurrent UTI's. Just came off of 2 weeks antibiotics to quite this most recent event. Is there anything I can do to prevent these recurrent episodes...
In Arizona, I can relate...I just had a 4K score of 7 (low risk group) and one of my Urologists still wants to do a biopsy...as Tall Allen commented...paraphrasing...why did he order it in the first...
Hi ejc61... I had the appointment for the colonoscopy for 5 months now so that date is etched in stone (I am already 3 months past due...and...had a pre-cancerous polyp the last time...
Good advice... Thank you.......
Thanks Paulsch...ha ha...I do the same thing! I know how long I am able to be away from a bathroom and try my best to plan my schedule with that in mind! Okay...more water....and no...MD did not tell...
Thanks for the advice...I'm just trying to figure out how I would stay out of the bathroom drinking all that fluid/juice. My commute is 1.5 hours (on average...have been on a commuter bus up to 3...
Hi Paulsch, Wow...I can relate to bladder spasms, urgency to pee, and the pressure in my bladder as well as dribbling at the end of urination.... So my % Free PSA (only one taken) was 17%: PSA, FREE...
Paulshc...Sorry got cut off... What symptoms have you experienced (or are currently experiencing) that lead to the diagnosis of Proatatitis? Does your doctor feel that performing serial biopsies is...
Hi Paulsch, Sounds like we have some things in common... Questions...was the determination to perform your first and second biopsy based solely on your PSA values at that time? Did you have any other...
And...I am sorry but...just for the record...he is the one who brought up having a biopsy...not me. I think he suggested it within the first two minutes of "his" call to me. And, if I were to tell...
Thank you......
Hi Tall Allen...first a Happy Thanksgiving to you and all here on this forum... Thank you! That is the way I thought it should be interpreted...however, I have been on the phone with Urologist #2 a...
Hi Tall Allen.... I posted an addendum in PSA Questions MR123... As mentioned, I couldn't get back into the forum and needed to re-register under an new name Sono.... If you have the time, I would...
Hello...it is MR123...I could not get back into the forum no matter what I tried...so...I needed to re-register...sorry for any confusion... I wanted to sent this follow up and ask a few questions......
Hi everyone... Some follow up...had an MRI...yesterday...waiting for results... Question...and this is just a general question...I know that PCa can/does present this way...but...can my long standing...
Thank you to all.. Sono...
Hi Andrew...thank you...I'm sorry...I wasn't clear...my PSA never dropped...only...it was 1.6 September 1st 2016, then 2.3 September 11th 2017 and then a month later went to 5.6 on 10/12/2017...so it...
Hi ASAdvocate...thank you for your input...I greatly appreciate you sharing your experience and knowledge with me and others... Regards, Sono...
Sorry...61 years old...thank you....
Good morning... I am new to this forum. I have been reading many of the trials that the membership have or are going through. You are all truly inspiring! My concerns are that my PSA went from 1.6 on...