I'm actually at the stage of awaiting a diagnosis following a TRUS biopsy earlier today so I won't know for another 14 days if I've joined this club officially.
I had my first PSA test and DRE when I got to 60 as part of the routine MOT I got on reaching that age. My PSA was 3.4 at the time and they said that would be used as a starting point for future tests to be compared against. The DRE didn't reveal anything so nothing happened until a few months ago just after turning 65.
I had a routine blood test in my local surgery and I asked whether they could test the PSA level whilst they were there. They duly did and it came back as 5.
In view of my father dying from PCa at 75 they thought it worth an mpMRI scan which they could do at my local hospital. I had the scan a few weeks ago in which there was a power surge then brief power cut near the end so they couldn't do the last 5 minutes just after the dye was injected.
The specialist contacted me a few days later to say there was enough there to warrant a biopsy but didn't give much detail apart from saying it was suspicious but there was nothing detected outside the prostate. I then had a rectal swab done at the local surgery to ascertain which antibiotics I would need. The biospy specialist today gave more details saying there was an area of legions contained within the prostate and some other areas they wanted to get samples from.
The biopsy went OK and I haven't seen any blood in my urine afterwards so now await the results.
I am fairly sure there is something there from what they've said and its now a matter of what treatment if any I need next. The consultant said a rise of 3.4 to 5 in 5 years was obviously very slow but he also said after the said that my prostate was quite small and therefore it was relatively higher than in some people.
It does make you wonder why more regular PSA tests are not carried out as I might have gone on for a few more years without any symptoms. I feel lucky I did ask for that PSA test at the time and that its probably been detected at an early stage.