Curt,
That's great news! I'll get my first in April.

Tom

From: hopehowie@webtv.net (Howard and Hope Sharrott)
Hi Curtis.. just got my 1st post op PSA...   .01...is this good
?..Howie
===========hi howie - it's not good........it's excellent!!!!!  :))   and may you
have many many more just like it.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc

Correction..PSA <0.01

That is encouraging. I know you were worried about 0.05. As I said
earlier this week, my PSA went from .03 to .07 over the last 6 months. I
am encouraged that it might also start going down again.
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this is the joker in the deck.  here's some facts.  one person had an RP
5 years ago and has numbers similar to yours now.  but they dropped from
07 to .05 on his last psa test.  

there's seems to be two paths post op RP'ers follow when the psa rises.

1. the psa sorta 'floats' and gradually increases.

2. the psa has a general upward trend without going backwards.

i'm meeting with the surgeon next week for a more in depth explanation
on this and why.  so, stay tuned, if i find out any thing, i will post
it.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc