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1st PSA results after Proton Beam Therapy

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 5 9:49am | Replies (36)

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saxman911, Good to hear your results. Where did you have your proton radiation done?

I had 30 rounds of proton at UFPTI in Jacksonville FL. What Mayo and UFPTI do is after your last treatment they wait 90 days (3 months) to do a PSA test. This is to allow the prostrate to recover from the irritation of radiation and give a more accurate PSA reading. I am not sure why yours had it done at 6 week follow up as the norm is every 3 months for the first year after treatments.

The norm for PSA is below 4. So yours has returned to under normal. To give you an example, mine was 3.75 (I know under the norm but rising PSA just like yours for several years) prior to treatments and went down to 1.2 after 90 days. I have another PSA test on December 8th the next 3 month mark.

I would asked your provider why they did 6 weeks not 3 months. Great to hear you are normal in the sexual function this tells me you probably did not have ADT hormone treatments (nor did I). Urination should improve with time. It took about 3 months for mine to return to normal. I was urinating a lot, high urge, etc. and slowly improved and back to normal now (soon at 6 months past last treatments).

Drink the water is good for you. Good Luck Alan!!!!

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my proton therapy center is in Delray Beach about 13 miles from my house so it was very convenient. my oncologist told me to come back six weeks later so I just did what he said. I did not have to take any hormones my previous sex life was always excellent (I am still a professional musician ) so the sperm and pre-ejaculation is still coming out which I'm thrilled about.
When I stop drinking water at 6:00 PM I would only go to urinate 2 times over an eight hour period. But if I get very thirsty at night I would end up going 4 to 5 times so I guess this is going to improve as I head to the three month marker. I'm going to have a phone call with my oncologist on December 14 I'm sure he already knows that the PSA did go down and since it is a little bit cooler in Florida I have started my daily 2 1/2 mile walk around evening.

Stay in touch and I thank you so much for reading my post

Alan Russell