psa tracking after RT and HT finished

Yes I am starting to take note on psa readings , finished rt last feb 2019 last zoladex injection mar 2019 , I only had 3in total, saw onco on my 65th birthday April ,

where he told me all my psa readings from my diagnosis to April 2019  15/5/18 6.4

1/11/18. 0.64

11/1/19 0.19

4/4/19 0.03( 65 birthday when I saw onco , who then said no more zoladex ,blood test every 6 months ) 

12/9/19  0.01

saw own gp to renew my yearly tamsolium tablets who wanted to do psa test last week 

6/2/20  0.06 

So as I was told by onco last April expect a gradual rise , which is ok but no spike in readings ‘allowed’ and magic number of 2 is the limit ? , so getting on with life and next blood test 6 months time . Ok still getting side effects from HT , night sweats . How long do they last ? 

Hi Malcolm and Pete;

Thanks so much for replying!

We thought 0.4 was ok but were just a bit spooked by the nurse mentioning getting us in for scans etc. at 0.4 (with a Prostate). Maybe it was because it had doubled from 0.2 to 0.4 in 5 months I don’t know. 

Hopefully will get news from the Onco on Tuesday . 
my husbands lowest is 0.1 ( we only do it to 1 point here) so the cut off would be 2.1 I think for us.

Re the night sweats the OH had them for a year but they reduced steadily and now at 15 months he maybe gets 1 a night at most . 

Thank you both for your replies and stay in touch and let me know how things go . There are lots of positives in your replies so keep going!

x

jen 

Enjoy your trip to the sun and hopefully PSA will stabilise or reduce.

I’ve been on holiday many times with the dark shadow of the next test.

Hopefully you can park those thoughts and enjoy a well deserved holiday.

Nevertheless monitoring is important to check on the pattern and extent of increasing PSA.