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Now they moved my Pelvis scan from a CT scan to a MRI scan on 8/31. Still have 5th rib CT on 20th because something that showed on PSMA back in January (they say 100 % sure it’s nothing but scanning anyway). Also another PSA test next week, 6 week one was .06, and this will be a 16 week PSA test. Is it true I shouldn’t be lifting weights and doing my 3 mile walks right before PSA test?
On the swollen area, right side same place the fix hernia I didn’t want fixed. No one is even talking about lymphedema or any of the other tests mentioned like Lymphoscintigraphy or Indocyanine Green. Sonographic test was normal. They just aren’t saying what that swollen area is. It’s still sore, but not getting worse. I am feeling small movement on the cough test, but no doctor has done the cough test on that right side lately- just me. Didn’t feel anything a few weeks ago. I mentioned it to PA Monday, but she didn’t give me the cough test, just said get the MRI. Maybe the surgeon I see on 18th will do it, but I know I feel something. But surgeon is the one that said it was nothing and but fat after his 30 second look. Sonogram Tech, Express Care doctor and PA said- not normal something wrong. Maybe MRI will come up with why?
I wish he just had taken the prostate out and left the hernia I had since the 1980s that never bothered me alone. That would leave out another possible problem and then they could focus on one issue.

Article some might find interesting? Clues Hidden in Failed Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy Trials. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/clues-hidden-failed-prostate-cancer-immunotherapy-trials-2026a1000phy

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Worrying about a rising PSA after having your prostate removed is like worrying about the horses getting out and closing the barn door after they have already escaped.

Temporary exercise-related increases happen when physical pressure or friction stimulates prostate tissue. Without the organ, that source is gone.