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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / October 2008PSA 3.5 years
<0.05 Howie > <0.05 Howie Great news, Howie. Anything new with Paul? Paul has to have biopsy end of month..PSA 700 he said???. I have to have stress test at VA..any idea how long on tredmill ? Would Ul Sound be better ? VA wants to check heart.. Howie > Paul has to have biopsy end of month..PSA 700 he said???. I > have to have stress test at VA..any idea how long on tredmill > ? Would Ul Sound be better ? VA wants to check heart.. > Howie You might get both an ultrasound (echocardiogram?) and a stress test. One is not a substitute for the other. They do different things and give different information. I had a couple of stress tests. As I recall, they were under 10 minutes. The technicians were tailoring the test to the patient. An obese woman got on the treadmill ahead of me and the staff were trying to get her up to 105 beats per minute at what looked to me like a slow walk on an almost level surface. The poor lady was having a hard time and had trouble tolerating it. I got on and they took me fairly quickly up to 150 beats per minute and an uphill jog. I wasn't having a problem and they kept trying to get some stress into the test by making it harder. What they'll try to do is to stress you enough to see the problem that you're reporting to them. They tailor the speed, uphill angle, and duration to meet that goal, while trying not to do you any harm. If it looks like you're in trouble, they'll slow down or stop. Alan Thanks Alan > Paul has to have biopsy end of month..PSA 700 he said???. I have to have > stress test at VA..any idea how long on tredmill ? Would Ul Sound be > better ? VA wants to check heart.. Howie > Paul has to have biopsy end of month..PSA 700 he said???. Geez! That was a month ago! I can't believe he hasn't had a biopsy yet. > I have to have > stress test at VA..any idea how long on tredmill ? Would Ul Sound be > better ? VA wants to check heart. Assuming it's like the two I've done, i.e., stress test with contrast, you'll be on the treadmill longer than you think you can make it. They keep increasing your speed and the slope of the ramp to the point where your heart is beating so hard and you're so out of breath that when you say, "I can't go on," they reply, "one more minute." Of course, at 67, it probably won't be more than a couple of minutes before you get to whatever their goal rate is -- unless you are used to cardiovascular exercise. I had fun with mine. They see this big, fat, balding man come and just assume it's going to be a quick test. They don't know that it's nothing for me to walk five miles in 1½ hours. And, since they have to monitor my heart the whole time and I'm 6'5", by the time I'm ramped up, they're looking for ways to get up to my heart to listen to it. Don't worry about it. They did my mother-in-law, feeble and 83, without a problem. I think they had her doing pedals instead of walking.  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA <.1 <.1 <.1 .27 .37 .75 PSAD 0.19 years EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 PSAD .056 years Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 and every 4 months there after PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 PSAD 1.4 years Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA undetectable since, < 0.04 on 10/09/08 Illegitimati non carborundum Paul lives in Southern California and I need not tell you who comes first with California medical... > Paul lives in Southern California and I need not tell you who comes > first with California medical... I'm thinking, "hard-working Americans" isn't the correct answer. Howie, If you can't do the stint on the treadmill they can stress you chemically and get the same sort of information. Last time I needed a stress test I was suffering from fairly advanced arthritis in both knees and one hip and just couldn't walk fast enough to get my heart rate up to where they needed it. That's not mentioning that I was grossly overweight. They injected something to accelerate my heart rate without doing the exercise and got the data they wanted. Since then, I've had a knee replacement, lost a bunch of fat and had my prostate removed. Good luck! Jim > Paul has to have biopsy end of month..PSA 700 he said???. I have to have > stress test at VA..any idea how long on tredmill ? Would Ul Sound be > better ? VA wants to check heart.. Howie Another fine score! jloomis > <0.05 Howie Thanks to all.. Howie Jim wrote to Howie: > Since then, I've had a knee replacement, If you dropped in to alt.support arthritis, you could perhaps help a lot of folks and maybe calm their anxiety as they look forward to a TKR. Most ASAers have had hip replacements - I've had THR(L) and (R) - and we can't answer all the questions about TKR pre- and post-surgery. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -=> Quoting Hopehowie@webtv.net to All <=- >... I need not tell you who comes first with California medical... You speaking about all the welfare mommies who keep popping out kid after kid after kid? ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 Hopehowie had this to say: > Yep..Hispanics and whatever...My brother who lives near > San Diego said some hospitas had to close ?? While a cop and driving an ambulance, I took untold number of patients to all of these except Coronado: College Park closed (demolished, now Ralph's/Kroger) Clairemont closed (county purchased, then ran into asbestos problems) Mission Bay closed El Cajon Valley/Scripps closed (sold to Kaiser, demolished) Heartland closed (now a Kaiser clinic) Harborview closed (now a hobo shelter) (something else doctor-related) closed Chula Vista sold and renamed South Bay sold and renamed Mercy sold Coronado sold Paradise Valley sold Doctors' sold and renamed Grossmont District - leased to for-profit chain Villa View? Most of the closings and sales resulted because they were going in the hole treating uninsured wetbacks. That is a Federal law/requirement of any hospital receiving Medicare. I swapped my PD badge with the city for a FD badge and DAMN if the fire department didn't take over "first responder" after the EMERGENCY series aired and convinced city after city after city that FD-based was best. <G> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 Paul replied to Joe: > Sounds like you'd have to work your way North County for care. Of > course you wouldn't want to be stuck on the 5 in an ambulance now, > that is unless you had a tank like that guy did some years ago :D But the guy in the National Guard tank headed south into downtown. I've been slowed down by traffic on I-5 and have detoured east to El Camino Real or west to Olde US 101. Amazing how many drivers wear blinders and have only one route from Point A to Point B. If a bomb landed on the highway they were traveling, they would never be able to find an alternate route. Like some doctors who have only one (their) treatment for PCa, regardless of a patient's age, PSA, Gleason, grade, etc. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 El woody thus spoke: >>> I need not tell you who comes first with California medical... >> You speaking about all the welfare mommies who keep popping out >> kid after kid after kid? > Those kids are the ones that will be paying your/our social security > and changing diapers in nursing homes in 20 years. Be nice to them. A) Often B) Usually C) Half the time those kids (female type) wind up on welfare, living with momma, and popping out kid after kid after kid. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 |
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