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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / March 2007PSA
I've always tried to keep up on men's health issues. I have a check up at least once a year and request the PSA test. My last test gave me a good reading of 3.3. I convinced a friend to have the test. His Dr is concerned. The test came back 8.8. They want him to take another test a week to confirm this reading. He is worried and asking my advice. I pushed him to take the test. Is this a very high reading? He is in 60s, Could this entail meds. and/or surgery, Btw: I've been taking Hytrin for 7 years for enlarged prostate and it's working very well for me. I'm now up to 6mg a day from a start of 2mg. I find I only need to get up once in the night. Appreciate any advice Glen >I've always tried to keep up on men's health issues. I have a check up >at least once a year and request the PSA test. My last test gave me a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >working very well for me. I'm now up to 6mg a day from a start of 2mg. I >find I only need to get up once in the night. A PSA of 8.8 seems high, and that means something is bugging the prostate, or the prostate is big. (Big prostates make more PSA.) So that should be investigated. Could be cancer, or prostatitis, or too much riding a bicycle. The doc will probably be interested in doing a DRE (digital examination). And maybe a biopsy is in the works if the PSA is confirmed. Actually, PSA values are all over the place. My uro says it's not the value of the PSA but the trend. One week does not establish a trend, though. I think that doing PSAs just for screening someone who does not have any other relevant symptoms is not recommended these days. It can scare perfectly healthy people, and maybe lead to unnecessary tests. But now that he has had it done, better follow through. Ed hello glen were you breast fed? hugh > I've always tried to keep up on men's health issues. I have a check up > at least once a year and request the PSA test. My last test gave me a [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Glen |
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