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Rising PSA after 17 years

Posted by stu6060 @stu6060, Mar 18 11:06am

Hello, I had my prostate taken out 17+ years ago (age 46 , Gleason 3+4)
For 17 years had an undetectable PSA. Now PSA test came back detectable 0.10 last August. I am scheduled for another test in April.
I know everyone is different, but I'm curious if anyone has a similar situation, they have gone through that they care to share. I thought I was done with this stuff. It's kind of messing with my mind. Thank you.

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stu6060 | @stu6060 | Mar 24 3:29pm
In reply to @vancouverislandhiker "Stu , I would ask your medical team for every 3 month PSA until PSA is..." + (show)
@vancouverislandhiker

Stu , I would ask your medical team for every 3 month PSA until PSA is undetectable. I would also ask of you can be put on the list for a PSMA PET scan list . At or above 0.3'ish you should be able to get a "echo" back to show If/where PSA is starting from and a target .Let us know how you are doing and what Dr's say . Im interested . God Bless you ! James from Vancouver Island .

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Thank you very much!
God Bless you too!

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stratjag | @stratjag | Apr 10 1:58pm
In reply to @jeffmarc "On my morning walk, I walked with a recently retired, cardiac surgeon. I asked him about..." + (show)
@jeffmarc

On my morning walk, I walked with a recently retired, cardiac surgeon. I asked him about somebody being on dialysis to resolve blood pressure problems. He could not understand how dialysis could have anything to do with your actual blood pressure. Dialysis has a lot of risks and you have to have ports for it in your body.

He thought you had some other problem that required dialysis and that ended up stabilizing your blood pressure.

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I had untreated HBP for a long time and I also had a case of psudo gout that was very painful. Doctor at the time had me take Advil, recommended dosage times 2. Add a stressful career and an ignored HBP while in the Navy and a scan at Mayo that never should have happened given my kidney health at the time. Without going into detail, the doctor at mayo said he never would have ordered that scan with my kidneys.

So what needs to said to other posters here, is that I am soooo tired with dialysis that if hormone treatment made me ever more tired, I have to say no. If they find cancer, thats a different story. I am not willing to destroy what quality of life I have to indefinitely suppress what can’t be found.

A friends brother has had multiple biopsy’s and scans over a period of 17 years and no cancer was ever found. So what do we all do if we're in that situation??

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