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1 1/2 year PSA test
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Apr 06, 2008 - 9:27 pm
I have been on this website since I have been diagnosed. I am having my 1 1/2 year PSA test since surgery. As all of you know, I am scared. Would like all of you to say a prayer that it is negitive. |
Joined: Apr 2008
Re: 1 1/2 year PSA test
This is my first post, althought I have been reading the entries here for a few days. I have seen your name come up a lot, usually helping and encouraging others. Well, it's your turn now- be encouraged, my friend. You have my prayers. I had the robotic surgery 3 weeks ago, and my first post-op PSA comes up in June, so I could use your prayers also. Godspeed.
Joined: Mar 2002
Re: 1 1/2 year PSA test
To both of you I wish only the very best results. Keep positive thoughts and know we are all praying for extremely low, or non-existant numbers.
Roger
Joined: Mar 2001
Re: 1 1/2 year PSA test
A PSA assay does not go into a negative value. However, it can be so low as to be undetectable. Waiting for 1 1/2 years for a post-op PSA is unimaginable. By the same token, a PSA assay directly after surgery would likely be inaccurate due to residual PSA. However, your surgeon or urologist would normally have you back in for a PSA assay a month or so post-op or at least at 3 or 6-months intervals.
Joined: Jan 2007
Re: 1 1/2 year PSA test
This is not my first PSA since Surgery.....I took PSA exams every 3 months after surgery, now every six months.
Joined: Mar 2001
Re: 1 1/2 year PSA test
Sorry...from the tone of the message, I presumed this was a major, milestone event. I'm end stage and not a prayer person. However, if I were, I'd ask the divine intervener to start tending to business by focusing on the 52.2 innocent infants and adolescents that die horrific deaths from this wretched disease every single day.
Joined: May 2006
Re: 1 1/2 year PSA test
please take a look at this:
http://www.tinyurl.com/3dqbxg
thanks!