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Post RP and SRT journey - July 3023 PSA test update

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User
Posted 18 Aug 2020 at 22:47

Not far off. This happens when you unleash the inner engineer 🤖🤓😜

User
Posted 18 Aug 2020 at 23:03

Great results Pete.  So pleased for you.

Ange

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 11:57
Good news. Re interval I rationalise it by deciding what I would do if it went up and what impact another 3 / 6 months would have on the decision.

I have grown to enjoy blissful ignorance safe in the knowledge that 6 months delay won't make a blind bit of difference to my outcome at this stage of the game.

Same logic has made me swap to standard test, why worry about those .00's if it's not going to change my treatment plan or outcome.

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 12:40

Pete 

Great result, you know our Angels will do what we want, I am now on four month testing and the result by text the next day or sooner if available.

Thanks Chris

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 15:42
Thanks folks

I have a little hangover today but am now back in the saddle aiming to get on with my life :)

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 15:46
Lynn

Someone on my other forum suggested four months as a compromise. What are your thoughts on that?

P

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 15:50
good news on your results, think its whatever you think is best that matters or as you say 4 months and then maybe gradually increase to 6.

Barbara x

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 15:52
Cheers Barbara

I am mainly thinking of my wife as I get a bit withdrawn leading up to test time and three times a year means one less grumpy old me period :)

User
Posted 19 Aug 2020 at 21:47

Glad it was a good result.

When the nurse said I was going on annual my first thought was no, perhaps 9 months.  She then added I could go anytime and ring her for the result if I got worried which sounded reasonable.   It's 7 months now and at the moment have no thought of going.

User
Posted 20 Aug 2020 at 00:59
3 months or 4 months or never, only you can decide what suits you..
User
Posted 20 Aug 2020 at 08:46
4 months with a view to easing yourself into 6 months - seems to me that no crisis can result from that.

We have just been holidaying with a man who is a somewhat public figure; his wife confided that he had RP over 10 years ago with "one of the best urologists in the country". I asked how his PSA is now and she replied that he has never had PSA tests since the op because the surgeon was "confident that they got it all." I tried to explain but they were having none of it - apparently, if the best urologist says you don't need to have monitoring, you don't 🤷‍♀️

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 20 Aug 2020 at 15:21

Lyn, re the somewhat public figure not having had a PSA test since the op. Wow, if I had not tested  mine after Prostatectomy I would probably not be here today.

 

 

 

Ido4

User
Posted 21 Aug 2020 at 11:58
Yikes

That is madness. Like most here with ART/SRT, I'd be in trouble without post RP monitoring.

I have always been led to believe that many surgeons have big egos but putting someone at risk because you believe in youself so much would, I would argue, go against the Hippocratic oath.

User
Posted 21 Aug 2020 at 12:19
My cousin died a couple of years ago at the age of 52. His surgeon also stated that monitoring was unnecessary because the surgery had 'got it all' and he even put it in writing when the GP queried it. Consultants with egos are almost as dangerous as GPs with accountants.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 21 Aug 2020 at 16:36
"I have always been led to believe that many surgeons have big egos but putting someone at risk because you believe in youself so much would, I would argue, go against the Hippocratic oath."

Maybe he took the Hypocritic oath instead...

User
Posted 25 Aug 2020 at 14:41
Interesting...

I got my next three month test letter (may request four months when I get a chance).

I noted it also had Testosterone on it.

I never specificaly asked for it but I remember honking about feeling tired a lot of the time and having wipe out days so I wonder if the Dr decided to add that when (assuming they did) the nurse briefed him on my feedback. This next will be two tears post end of SRT.

User
Posted 25 Aug 2020 at 15:38
What was it?
User
Posted 25 Aug 2020 at 16:13

Sorry, what was what?

If you mean the T, I never had it on the last test - the nurse added a request for it on the next one.

Edited by member 25 Aug 2020 at 16:18  | Reason: Not specified

User
Posted 25 Aug 2020 at 21:27

I'm only occasionally on this site at the moment, though I probably should be more with my PSA creeping up 4 years after RP.

But I do want to say how the sentence "Consultants* with egos are almost as dangerous as GPs with accountants" lightened my day. A concise summary of around half the problems with the NHS.

[*I assume this really means "surgeons" though I have enountered cardiologists who possibly qualify].

User
Posted 26 Aug 2020 at 22:00

Going back to the interval between PSA tests. I’m on 6 monthly with a rising PSA. My view is that it’s not going to suddenly shoot up to levels where they need to act. So why put yourself through the angst of an unnecessary test 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bri

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