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1st PSA test seven weeks after surgery

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 25 3:06pm | Replies (44)

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Hi James! They took out 19 nodes - 13 on the left and 6 on the right. The tumor I had was all on the left side. I will have another PET PSMA scan on July 31 and then start Firmagon for 2 years on Aug 5. My next appointment with radiologist is Aug 20, which I believe is a simulation to get me ready for radiation. Also, results of a DEXA bone scan I did last Friday came back good (as far as I can tell). They also tested my current testosterone (baseline before meds) which came in at 394.
I hope you are doing well! 🙂

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You really should ask your doctor to let you have something besides Firmagon. Many people start to have a lot of pain from getting that shot every month, And the doctors love the income from having a monthly shot.

You would get the exact same results from a three month Lupron shot, And it’s in the hip and doesn’t really hurt, I got them for six years.

Even better ask your doctor for Orgovyx, A once a day pill. If you do this, when you stop, your testosterone comes back much quicker.

Let me know how things go John . Interested . I think I am doing OK. My radiation oncologist has now discharged me from the Victoria Royal Jubilee Hospital. I guess that's a good thing? He told me just to report to my Urologist Dr. Brian Yang. So I get my PSA test every three months and see how it goes. My last PSA test was 0.061 roughly and the one before that was 0.047. One before that was 0.058. So I am kind of hovering in this area. My urologist thinks that I have healthy cells in my pelvic area that is producing a very small amount of PSA. He is not concerned about it at all. Very unusual circumstance I think. I thought the radiation would've got rid of it. I've had the radiation 2 1/2 years ago. Surgery about 5 1/2 years ago. PSA surgery time was 4.0.