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I went to the ER with having a hard time urinating and frequent time especially at night. They thought a UTI. After 4 days I felt I was getting worse and went to another doctor. He add Flomax and change antibiotics to Cipro. I saw urology 5 days later but had my PSA done on my own before seeing him and and it came back at 50. (Back in August for my physical it was .85) Around the beginning of Dec. The urologist said sounds like prostatitis and follow up just in 2 weeks and we will retest your PSA then. It was 12 and now he's just saying follow up in 2 months. I retested my PSA again on my own and it was 8 on Monday. The wait is stressing me out to just wait and see how low my PSA will go they decide to check for cancer. My urine test showed UTI they say but it does show white blood cells as signalling and infection. I stressing and seem to have inflammation and last night some pelvic pain. It make me thing the cancer is spreading why they just stand by and wait.

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BPH and a large prostate can really screw up people because the PSA number is just way too high, but it’s not prostate cancer, Usually.

Had a friend Who’s prostate was huge and his PSA was always around 50, Had multiple biopsies they never found anything.

It sounds like your case is one that needs to be monitored.

If you are really paranoid about having prostate cancer, you could get a PSE test, which would Definitively tell you whether or not there was cancer in your system and you needed a biopsy.