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Leo Robot spares some nerves

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Posted 21 Oct 2020 at 11:10

Plus ca change. My latest PSA reading is 0.1 yet again. My oncologist says that she has no plans for any further treatment(s) at the moment. If the next reading is no higher I'll be moved on to 4 monthly testing.

In other news, whilst discussing the latest news with my GP I discovered that she had received a letter with detailed results of my CT angiogram at the end of July that I had not. As a consequence of that conversation I am typing this in a ward at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. I'm expecting a triple or quadruple CABG in a week or so if I'm lucky. I'm told I can change my mind right up to the point when I fall unconscious on the operating table.

I've already had two Covid 19 tests, plus one "scare". A chap in our room with an ominous continuous cough was moved, presumably into a room of his own. The rest of us were "locked down" until his swab test came back negative.

Jim

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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Posted 27 Feb 2021 at 00:39

I seem to have unilaterally moved myself on to a 4 monthly PSA rota, in part I suppose due to the CABG op I had last Autumn.

I had yet another set of blood tests earlier this week, only to discover that my PSA has doubled to 0.2 since last October. Not only that but my liver function tests have gone haywire, which I put down to the side effects of the assorted heart meds I've been taking. However my GP thinks that might just possibly have something to do with cancer and so has passed the buck to my oncologist. More from me when I've had that conversation.

On the Covid front I also had my first Oxford/AstraZeneca jab earlier this week. It's all go at the moment!

Jim 

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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Posted 27 Feb 2021 at 02:08
Sorry about the PSA soulsurfer; I was really hoping it had stabilised for you.

Re the liver function tests, I assume you were tested for Covid and got the all clear?

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 27 Feb 2021 at 09:49
Thanks Lyn,

I had numerous PCR swabs when I was in hospital for the heart op. All negative!

Nothing since then apart from having my temperature taken if I go somewhere "medical".

I've been strenuously trying to avoid going anywhere else there might be people, and intend to continue in that vein until a month after my second jab at the earliest.

I also have a theory that I had a bout of Covid-19 at Xmas. In 2019 that is!

Jim

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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Posted 27 Feb 2021 at 10:15
It was just my meandering thoughts. When dad had his mystery illness in Feb 2020 that nearly killed him, his liver function tests were sky high and his skin was jaundiced.

I have asked since but his doctors are still saying it definitely wasn't coronavirus. I have my doubts

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 27 Feb 2021 at 13:34

You may well be correct Lyn:

"Liver involvement is common during COVID‐19"

https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hep.31684

What are your Dad's doctors' alternative theories?

Jim

 

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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Posted 03 Mar 2021 at 16:24

The oncologist reckons my strange liver function results are not prostate related, and suggested doing a scan to the GP. He's booking me in for an ultrasound investigation.

My oncologist is going to give me a call on March 24th.

Personally my money is still on the pills. I Googled "Gamma Glutamyl Transferase" only to discover that:

"GGT elevation has also been occasionally reported following nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (including aspirin)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-glutamyltransferase

According to the leaflets both Atorvastatin and Ramipril can behave similarly.

Jim

 

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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Posted 03 Mar 2021 at 16:55

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

You may well be correct Lyn:

"Liver involvement is common during COVID‐19"

https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hep.31684

What are your Dad's doctors' alternative theories?

Jim

Sorry Jim - I completely missed this! They have never offered any kind of alternative theory for him being on his death bed and then recovering, and they have never tested him for Covid antibodies. Just one of those situations with no known cause, they told us. All they will say is that Coronavirus wasn't in Leeds at the end of Jan / beginning of Feb 2020. I think it clearly was 🤷  

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 03 Mar 2021 at 22:33

Well, my dearly beloved and I were both flat on our backs in bed next to each other in North Cornwall between Xmas and New Year 2019 with the symptoms of Covid-19.

Perhaps it was merely "the flu"? My eldest son is a delivery driver and had a bad case of that a few days before.

Jim


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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Posted 04 Mar 2021 at 00:02
No, it wasn't flu-like at all - at the time, all markers indicated that he was in liver failure and the symptoms and rapid decline were highly indicative of last stage PCa (although fortunately, that turned out not to be the case and he is now as sprightly as ever). A mystery that will never be solved except in my own head where I just know it was Covid.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 04 Mar 2021 at 09:56

Obviously I wasn't very clear last night Lyn!

I meant that my own symptoms might have been caused by "a bad case of the flu", but in my own head it's far more likely to have been Covid. Perhaps my son delivered a parcel to somebody recently returned from China? Or Italy?

Alternatively one of my neighbours is in the Marines:

https://uk.usembassy.gov/peace-through-sports-at-the-2019-military-world-games/

I didn't have any liver problems that I'm aware of, but in March I had a chest X-ray that discovered "emphysema & COPD". I have never smoked and never worked down a tin mine.

Jim

 

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
 
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