Clean Post Op PSA

 

Happy Holidays

just thought some good news might be in order. I got my post op PSA results and the levels were undetectable, less than 1%. In the middle of all our healing, it's nice to have something to feel good about. One quick question. My leaking seems to be slowing down, but my urine stream is also weaker than it was say three weeks ago. Pissing is more like milking a cow. Anybody have this experience? I'm worried I won't be able to write my name in the snow.

Birdland

Bird, I still pee like that, well maybe not that bad. A couple of months after my surgery I asked the Doc about my peeing. I told him it felt like a bottle filling up then pouring out slowly over and over till it would stop then 5 minutes later the same thing would happen. The Doc said can you live with it? because if we go in there to try and fix it we may make it worse. I am still filling and pouring 3 1/2 years later. I always feel like I have to pee even right after I finish. I still wonder if I made the right choice??
Your bud, Pete

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53 years old, Surgury, Radical Prostatectomy 8/20/03, PSA 6.6, Gleason 3 + 3 = 6, Adenocarcinoma extent (moderate) Stage & Margin:T2NOMX, No Metastases, Organ Confined, bone scan: Neg.  

Great to hear about the PSA!

Tanya and Ken

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Signficant Other diagnosed: 10/30/06 (age 63)
PSA: 3.7 (up from 3.4 prior year)
Gleason: 3+3
Biopsy: 1/10 positive, 5% cancerous, right apex.

Treatment:  Undecided

Dear Birdland,   *&^%$#@     WOO HOO!!   (*&^%$# undetectable!!!   Great News!!!   Thank you for sharing it with us!   Happy Every-Days for sure.   We were also foreworned about scar tissue.   Urologist said if it happened he would do a little snip, snip in the office and we’d be good as new.   Didn’t seem to be a big deal from the sounds of it.   We were fortunate not to have any scaring…     I definitely would have this checked by your specialist.   He may say don’t worry about it but then again…..   you won’t know unless you ask your surgeon...   Spinbiscuit & Birdland ~ you’re both a riot!!!!   Made me giggle……        Birdland ~ Just make sure no one eats the yellow snow!!!!   Congrats on the PSA readout!!!!!   Hope the dark clouds are staying away my friend….   Just keep seeing the rainbows and undetectable PSA #’s and you will move forward.   In Friendship ~ Lee & Buddy mama bluebird - Lee & Buddy… from North Carolina April 3, 2006  53 on surgery day RRP / Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy with "wide excision" PSA 4.6   Gleason  3+3=6    T2a   Confined to Prostate   June 29th ~ PSA Less than 0.1 Non-detectable