My husband's prostate journey

Morning Daphna and thank you, The BIG day for you and Jacob, I can guess how your feeling, but know you will have prepared for today so everything goes smoothly. I will have everything crossed for you both and hope treatment goes as well as we all hope it will, best wishes to you both.

Eddie xx

We have to have a bit of fun

Just realised you're not a Barry, you're a lady

Morning AH, that's so true and so important, I am already imagining too much and lacy bits keep popping up. Moving on, how is hubby a week after treatment and how are you doing and did you get a bread maker, take care.

Eddie xx

Thank you Eddie

xxx

What is it about you men and red lacy bits.

Hubby is not experiencing any gut issues after the hammering to his abdominal lymph nodes. Mentally it has been a rollercoaster with a really bad time Saturday afternoon but he has bounced up again for now. Nausea has diminished provided I feed him little and often but he has gone off most drinks apart from water. He is still sleeping for England/ Greece but I think this is often the way the body heals itself. We just keep thinking it was worth it knowing that the cancer has been zapped.

I made a loaf by hand yesterday using my mixer and it turned out well. I will order a breadmaker to pick up from a store when we have to go to town in a couple of weeks for a Prostate injection. The postal service in this area is virtually non existent and everyone in the village has the same address so for couriers it is a nightmare.

Good morning from Yorkshire.  Here's a simple question and let's hope for a simple answer.  If the PSA test measures prostate-specific antigen produced in the prostate what is a PSA test measuring now that I have had my prostate removed?  I'm on a 5 year programme to periodically measure it.  Is this a waste of time?  Can PSA be produced elsewhere in the body?  Is it a signifier of cancer if so?  OK, so it was more than one question.

Hi Huffies

It's important to keep testing for PSA after the gland is removed just in case there are some bits left over, possibly just outside where the gland was or elsewhere.

Reading should be zero or very near and stay that way, 

After a year you can relax a bit assuming PSA not moved up.

PSA not produced elsewhere in the body.

If you have any stats that would help

Best wishes 

Steve 

Hi Huffies .

Grundo has beaten me to it. All I will add is that if the PSA starts to rise then the normal criteria for further investigation is when the level goes above 0.2, at which point salvage radiotherapy is usually offered. There is a very sensitive scan available called a PSMA PET CT scan which can detect very low levels of PSA produced by the prostate cancer cells anywhere in the body. These cells can lay dormant in bones and lymph nodes in particular, then suddenly decide to multiply at a later date. The Gleason score is usually an indicator of how likely this is to happen.

Hi Grundo Steve, PSA is also produced, in very small amounts, by the salivary and urethral glands, though their impact on results are negligible,

Eddie