How to cope with stress/anxiety, waiting for PSA blood test

@jimgaudette
That breathing exercise actually works. My nurses told me about it when my cancer adventure first started. The only change they said was inhale 4 hold 6 exhale 8.

Hello and...
Congratulations...you are alive SIX YEARS after prostate cancer diagnosis and prostatectomy. You didn't share what your prior PSA levels have been over the last few years, nor your original Gleason score and surgical pathology details, but the good news is that it is very inferred:
Your first year post-op you have a PSA every three months. If < 0.1 ng/ml, then in year #2 you go to a PSA level just twice per year, and that continues until your physician decides you've been doing so well, that you'll only need a PSA "once" per year. The inference is that your PSA levels have been great! If they weren't, we would likely be reading about your subsequent recurrence of your prostate cancer and your radiation therapy or ADT, etc.
I would like to offer the classic saying that I have found to be true in my life...we all have heard it: "99% of the things we worry about NEVER happen." I would say, you should thank God for the blessing of being cancer free without recurrence for six years. With that track record, I would guess that you will have another PSA of < 0.1 ng/ml, and all of your anxiety and worry will have been baseless. Count your blessing for everything that you've enjoyed these last six years. Develop a mindset of hope and continued blessings in and for your life. Remember too the other saying: "Most men with prostate cancer (many/most without ever having the radical prostatectomy) live with this slow growing cancer long enough that they actually die of something else (heart attack, stroke, old age)." My family is a living example of that: My father lived to 99 years and 10 months "with" prostate cancer, never having had the RP. My maternal grandfather lived to 96 "with" prostate cancer, never having the RP. He died of Alzheimer's related causes. My maternal uncle died just before his 87th birthday "with" prostate cancer, never having the RP. He died of a cluster-stroke. Makes me wonder why I had the RP with that longevity in my family genes. I am only 70, but I hope that having had the RP, that I can at least surpass my uncle, if not my grandfather. My paternal grandfather also lived to 96, and never had prostate cancer...he just died of old age. So, long story short: live your life, count your blessings, don't worry about the 99% of things that never/don't happen, and check back in with us with your follow-up about your PSA level. Good luck!

Thank you for all that information. Really appreciated it. My combine Gleeson score was seven. My PSA was 5.6 at the time it was discovered. I was lucky thank God that I had a wonderful doctor. I had surgery to remove the prostate and six years later, here I am And I thank God every single day that I’m alive. Good luck to you and your family. God be with you.