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Sorry to hear of your chronic post-biopsy pain.
I experienced severe pain for about 3 months after my initial biopsy, but it faded over time. Read my previous comments, in this thread, for details.
It’s now been 21 months since I’ve had my biopsy and my pain is now more of a minor annoyance. Like you, I have just learned to live with it.
I’m almost sure the pain is the result of nerve damage done by the biopsy needles, during the biopsy.
As you indicate, it’s difficult to find much information admitting to this potentiality; but if you dig deep enough you will find that it does happen.
It goes against the narrative and dogma the industry portrays (in its silence) regarding this possible outcome of prostate biopsy; using the excuse that PCa can’t be diagnosed without a biopsy.
In any case, I will never again submit to another biopsy…there is no need, in my case.
The best urologist I have ever found, willing to confront what you and I have experienced, is Dr. Stephen Petteruti.
I hope you find a solution to your chronic post biopsy pain. And, for what it’s worth, know that others have experienced a similar side effect.
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After watching the video the problem I see with Dr. Petteruti is that he doesn’t give any solution for people who have serious cases of prostate cancer.
Somebody who has cancer on both sides of the prostate and an extensive number of tumors elsewhere should not have the prostate treated, Just let it spread to nearby tissue?. What should they do? No solution.
Many people, these days, have come in with multiple metastasis which includes a prostate with cancer that has spread. What do you do in this case? How do you not treat people in their 50’s and 60’s so they can live into their 90s? This large surge of younger people having advanced prostate cancer is due to the fact that the medical community decided to recommend not doing PSA tests for a long time and the results are showing up now With advanced cases.
What do you do with someone who has BRCA2. If you don’t treat the cancer, it’s going to explode at some point. When somebody has BRCA2 They get cancer younger. I got it at 62 while my brother got it at 75 because he didn’t have BRCA2. He just had a father who died from it.
If the plan was to give people ADT and ARSI for life, that has a major problems since people become resistant to those drugs over time and they stop working. What do we do then, There is no magic bullet for those cases, yet.
Does Dr. Stephen Petteruti have a solution in these type of cases.
The statements about the danger of doing biopsies was very interesting. If only biopsies were not effective in huge percentage of cases. I had three of them, no side effects after the fact. MRI may be good enough to replace the biopsy as well as as tests like the PSE test. He didn’t point out concrete ways to detect prostate cancer and it’s aggressiveness. That sure would be helpful. Somebody with a Gleeson 9 or 10 sure would like to know that fact and The danger it foresees. Yes, they only get one percent but they seem to get the right one percent in a lot of cases.
I think this guy has to be in front of a group of doctors in a debate, More people than ever have been getting prostate cancer in their 50s and early 60s, And in many cases, it’s been advanced. What is the solution for these people? How are you going to get somebody to live 30 to 40 more years by not doing anything to their prostate?. We do not have the medical or scientific capability today to do any more than we’re doing now.