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Who here has been undetectable the longest? (Survey)

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How many years have you been undetectable since treatment?
1-2 - 18.3% - 11 votes
3-4 - 18.3% - 11 votes
5-6 - 15.0% - 9 votes
7-8 - 10.0% - 6 votes
9-10 - 11.7% - 7 votes
More than 10 (tell us how many) - 26.7% - 16 votes
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Posted 10/26/2020 2:12 PM (GMT -8)
Wonderful stories of victory
Posted 10/26/2020 4:52 PM (GMT -8)
Never been undetectable to my knowledge...all I really care about is I feel and look great...at some point in time that may end...is this a contest?...well good luck...logo
Posted 10/26/2020 7:46 PM (GMT -8)
Hello to everyone. I rarely get to the forum and seldom post. But I'm thankful to say I will be 5 years undetectable in spring 2021. It is good to see old friends still on the site, unfortunate to see many new ones.
I consider you all brothers. My PSA post RALP in 2016 have all been <.01
Best wishes and blessings to all,
Mack 54
Posted 10/27/2020 8:32 AM (GMT -8)

logoslidat said...
Never been undetectable to my knowledge...all I really care about is I feel and look great...at some point in time that may end...is this a contest?...well good luck...logo

If it's a contest, everyone here is a winner!
Posted 10/27/2020 9:00 AM (GMT -8)
Tim G. said: "If it's a contest, everyone here is a winner! "

LIKE!
Posted 10/27/2020 10:18 AM (GMT -8)
8 years undetectable with 0 SE's.
Posted 10/27/2020 11:22 AM (GMT -8)
graarsh...even me??..aw .shucks... what would Woody Allen say...or was it Groucho Marx?..any way...I still love a parade...
Posted 10/27/2020 11:28 AM (GMT -8)
I still member Ya Yoop...good on ya....time steals but always gives back
Posted 10/27/2020 12:27 PM (GMT -8)
8Yrs in Dec
Posted 10/27/2020 1:20 PM (GMT -8)
Yoop, so great to see you!!! Glad you are undetectable and still setting records.
Posted 10/28/2020 5:13 AM (GMT -8)
I am a bit reluctant to comment my own results after I started with the post surgery test. But I guess this thread is perfect for it and, morever, I reached the mark of 3 years, which is generally considered relevant. I never get a < or indetectable result, but nobody I know gets it in this particular lab, they generally get something in the 0.02-0.06 range. Although sometimes I slightly exceed this range, my values have clearly remained below 0.1. Last time I visited my urologist he said that in other places he has been these results are written as <0.1 instead, and I am happy with this explanation. Of course, I would prefer to have a series of untrasensitive indetectable results, specially given my high grade update in the path report, but I do not know where to go for the tests and now, after a few years, I guess keeping with the same lab reference is not a bad idea.
I will keep fighting with the psa anxiety at least a couple of times a year, you know what it means. Good luck to everybody with PCa and the other threads we face in this uncertainty time.
Posted 2/23/2021 10:16 PM (GMT -8)
David (Purgatory)
So good to see you are still posting. I hope things are going better for you.
I rarely visit here except when I have my annual physical which I did on 2/22/2021.
Now for the 11th year, still undetectable. I know I am one of the lucky ones.
I did vote in your survey.
Good to see you (virtually anyway).
Go Gamecocks! LOL
RickyD
Posted 2/25/2021 10:07 AM (GMT -8)
Not undetectable, but 14 years out and PSA seems stable at the .2 -> .4 range for the last couple of years. Possible benign tissue left over...

pasayten
Posted 2/25/2021 10:41 AM (GMT -8)
Although not quite the same question, but similar, my MO said the record for his patients is a 17 year run on Lupron for staying undetectable.
Posted 3/25/2021 4:07 AM (GMT -8)
14 years for me . Zero psa every year since my surgery in 2007. The only side effects I have now is that I have stress leaks if I move the wrong way or I coaugh. Also, I can't hold my urine in my bladder. When I feel the slightest urge to go, I have to go immediately or I will start to leak. It is frustrating, but I have kearned to live with it.

ED wise, I have had no problems after my surgery. I was getting rock solid erections ( without drugs) since the day the catheter was removed, and still have them to this day. The only really strange thing is that after my surgery, now when I climax, I ejaculate urine. I ejaculate urine like a fire hose with more force then I ejaculated sperm when I had my prostate. From my research, I guess this is a side effect of this type of surgery that no one talks about and the docs don't tell you.
Posted 3/30/2021 6:01 AM (GMT -8)
Never made it to undetectable. After surgery, PSA was .07. Did 39 radiation sessions about six months later and post radiation PSA was .14. Since then, number has migrated to other side of the decimal point.
Posted 3/30/2021 7:22 AM (GMT -8)
Having voted now, my being undetectable was based on an assay with only one decimal place. ie <0.1
Every since I switched to two decimal places I have been detectable.
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