The waiting is very hard Sally, we do understand the difficulty. I do think the other answers sound a little harsh to my ears, I hope that’s just my oversenstive soul! I know the guys intend to help. I think the waiting is the worst of it in many ways, I’m one who finds knowledge helpful, I can deal with the known, but not so much the unknown. I think your GP is very sensible, a biopsy in that area can and does cause infection, so it’s a bad idea to do it whilst an infection is in active stage.
How to cope with the waiting, I have honestly no idea how we coped, I think we just lived Day by day and tried not to think about it too much. I guess until we had the actual diagnosis we could kid ourselves that it wasn’t that bad, maybe that is what kept us going. What I do remember, in our case was having a PSA result in October and then only getting a full diagnosis on 23rd Dec! And that was going down the normal route.
One thing I do know is that time is relentless and keeps on turning. I for one was grateful to find this forum and for the knowledge it gave me, I think it’s made our journey a little more scary at times but also because I crave knowledge, it has given me what I needed. I hope all works out for you.
love Devonmaid xxxx