My husband was quite unwell in March with what was diagnosed as prostatitis, and had a 2 week course of antibiotics. Had a DRE then and was told he had a large "boggy" prostate.
Symptoms resolved and he was told to have a PSA 6 weeks later which came back at 6.4. GP felt this was just post infection and requested he get it done in another 6 weeks, this result was 11.8. GP was convinced it was all down to infection but did an urgent referral to urology.
Saw urologist in July, had another PSA and DRE. Advised he had a small benign feeling prostate and a PSA was down to 5.2, again told all likely yo be caused by resolving infection, given another appointment with urology as a follow up in Dec and advised to get PSA checked a week before this appointment.
Urologist obviously changed his mind as he wrote and asked for another PSA to be done 1st week of sept and this had risen again to 9.4, called for a biopsy and just been for the results this morning with a specialist nurse.
Of the 12 samples, 11 are clear and one has cell changes, not cancerous at the moment but described as suspicious. Now has to have an MRI to identify the area of change in the prostate, which will be in about 3 weeks and then a further biopsy.
Although I feel this is good news I am disappointed that we now have another 2 months of uncertainty with seems to be the norm in this club!