Don’t….focus on you kidneys!

stratjag, thank you for your input. I wish you all the best on every aspect of your health!

10% of people with prostate cancer show no rise in PSA, even though the cancer has spread. In some cases, they do not produce PSMA as well, so the scan doesn’t show anything.

In that case an FDG scan is recommended by many knowledgeable doctors, To see if You have Metastasis that it cannot be seen by a PSMA Pet.

I had my prostate removed 15 years ago And 3 1/2 years later had radiation because my PSA rose to .2. That gave me 2 1/2 years more with undetectable PSA Before I had two more reoccurrences. They didn’t have the PSMA pet back then so they could not see any spread, But the radiation did work. I’m now 77 and my PSA Has been undetectable for the last 16 months. Darolutamide alone works well for me, after 8 years on ADT.

I got high blood pressure from ADT and Zytiga. I’m on three different blood pressure medicines to keep it under control, Which it does very well. Did they try multiple different types of BP meds Before putting you on dialysis?

On my morning walk, I walked with a recently retired, cardiac surgeon. I asked him about somebody being on dialysis to resolve blood pressure problems. He could not understand how dialysis could have anything to do with your actual blood pressure. Dialysis has a lot of risks and you have to have ports for it in your body.

He thought you had some other problem that required dialysis and that ended up stabilizing your blood pressure.