PSA 7.3 - referred to urologist

Have you only been prescribed Diazepam? What dose? 5mg tablets? It works instantly, but I'd be wary about taking it for more than a few days because it does have dependency issues. I'd still ask for one of the drugs intended for longer-term usage such as Sertraline if I were you.

Glad to hear you're feeling a little better, anyway. It does take time to come to terms with something like this, but you will. 

Take care,

Chris

Been to urologist. Don't know what to think tbh. I didn't do a flow test or have ultrasound. He asked the questions of when my urinary symptoms had begun and I told him 6 weeks ago after a week of extreme stress. Also turns out I'd mis-heard GPs PSA of 7.3 - it is 7.9! This freaked me out, but urologist seemed less concerned by the .6 differential. To me, it felt like a mountainous rise.

Anyway, he then did a DRE, which felt more uncomfortable than GP doing it. GP has said "smooth" and slightly enlarged - urologist said it felt completely normal. Why symptoms of BPH though I asked? Didn't really hear his answer. Then I had to do another urine sample, followed by another f...ing PSA. I had googled that a PSA after a DRE can lead to a higher reading, but I forgot to ask the urologist this.

I then pressed him about my chances of Pca (stupid question, but I was bound to ask). "I'd say about 80/20 in your favour". What? Where did he pluck a stat like that from? I guess I asked for it though. Felt a bit like the odds on Harry Kane scoring the first goal at the next Euros.

Anyway, I have mp/MRI coming next week sometime, at which point he said if it was clear, we would wait 3 months and check PSA.

None of this did anything other than lead me to my diapezam and more confusion about the whole bloody thing.

Hello all. It's depressing old me again. Tomorrow is my MRI scan. Anyone know the time scale for results and whether to expect a letter/phone call?

God knows how I have managed to keep going until now. In truth, I haven't really. I have become monosyllabic with pretty much everyone other than my dog. I avoid humans at all costs and I am now chain smoking - I'm off diazepam simply because I didn't want to converse with another human in order to get a repeat prescription. Finding out from the urologist that my PSA was 7.9 and not the 7.3 that I thought didn't help, but then again I have read many PCa cases diagnosed with much lower scores than mine. The DRE being normal offers no solace to me, because they can only feel one side of that anyway. Besides, with a "smooth but slightly enlarged" from GP and a "normal" from urologist, it all seems subjective crap anyhow. Urinary issues of needing to go more than I should come and go depending on how much stress or coffee I have and life has generally been horribly bleak; I can only sense it becoming bleaker.

That's it for now from Mr Morbid. Good luck to all you brave souls out there.

Thanks Bob.

Thanks, John. As usual, you do cheer me up a bit and my morose-ometer sort of shifts the right way. If someone offered me 15 years now, I'd bite their hand off. Might even be long enough to see West Ham finish in the top 6. 

H

:)

May I refer the Honourable Member to the reply I gave earlier:

“Calm down dear!”

Cheers, John.

P.S. I regularly sail on a cruise line that has ’Tornado of Beef’ on the menu. They pretend to take notice when I tell them it should read ’Tournedos’, as in Rossini. I’ve told them for years, but now I’ve given up!

Cheers,

Chris

I don’t know why I have not asked this before....have you discussed you situation with your male work colleague and friends.

The reason I ask is you may be surprised how many of them either have PC or know someone that has.

Iplay golf and of the 30 odd of us that play together there is a least 4 that have gone through treatment.

It is good to be able to talk to someone firsthand about it.

Bob