I am a 48 year old that is seeing an urolgist for minor urinating
difficulties.  My PSA in January was 2.08 and a test yesterday showed
1.90. My urologist is very cautious and uses age-specific PSA levels
and his cutoff for biopsy for someone at my age is 1.6 to 1.8 so he is

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Not a huge surprise but a disappointment.
Three and a half years post prostatectomy.
My numbers have been:
Feb 2002   0.06

Damn that was a long needle!  Those lidocaine shots were the most
painful of the whole procedure.
Wish me luck, will know the result next week.

I have a neighbor who is about a year post RRP and he is using a clamp to
control the incontinence.  He is very satisfied with the device.  He is in
his 70's, a widower, and was very upset about the leakage.   In August I
will be two years post op and am still using 1-2 pads per day ...

Did anyone notice?
The Grass is greener today.
The sky is bluer today.
The clouds are fluffierr today.

I see a lot of talk on this newsgroup about their PSA but little reference
to free PSA.
Just curious why is that?
My PSA tests routinely include a complex score and to me that is extremely

When I delurked under a separate heading I noted I had a couple of
questions.  This is the first.  A rather delicate subject but if this
disease does one thing it is to remove inhibitions about discussing
bodily functions.  Anyhow.  When my erectile function started to

Hello PCa world.  Back from hernia repair surgery.  Two for the price of
one.  Inguinal hernia, the lump I found, and ventral by the RRP incision.
The surgery was nothing.  In at 10:00 A.M., home eating an Arby's roast beef
sandwich at 2:15 P.M..   I had local anesthesia, but they ...

Met with the urologist to review the results of my 1st RP post-op PSA blood
test. According to him the threshold value was 0.4 where anything above that
was going to cause some concern.
The test came back 0.02 so I can breath again - at least until September

I have been fighting PC since being diagnosed seventeen years ago.  Since
then, I have been an avid follower of information on the Web, particularly
of those interchanges between physician and patient such as are associated
with the P2P organisation.

Thanks to Marshall Schuon for sharing your decision to quit Zoladex. Our
paths are very similar. I too received my first injection February 2004. My
urologist wants me on it for two years. My last injection was a couple of
weeks ago and it was a very emotionally draining experience ...