PSA...prostate biopsy

Linefinder

Knew it was coming and have been dreading it for 6 months. But truth is....not nearly as bad as I was expecting. Not something I'd care to do on a recurring basis, but if you've ever whacked your thumb with a hammer hard enough to make you cuss, you've already endured far worse.

So, when/if the time comes.....keep a stiff upper lip, boys.

Mike

ETA: The worst part, actually, was the antibiotic shot in the buttocks. I haven't received a shot in the butt for years.

JerryBobCo

****, Mike!  Prayers sent for negative results.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do.

GunNut

Prayers sent for a false alarm brother!

PFD

Fingers crossed!

Linefinder

Will do. PSA levels were 0.97 (great), and the MRI 6 months ago came back negative. My urologist seemed pretty upbeat, but said the gold standard for detection was an MRI and biopsy 6 months apart. So...today was the biopsy part of it.

The biopsy is actually performed by technicians, not an MD. The guy that did mine has 30+ years on the job. After the procedure was over he said, "Of course, I can't diagnose, only your Doc can give you your actual test results. But everything looked good to me and I'm thinking this will turn out to be a whole lot of nothing".

So I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Mike

Diver43

Hope it was just a waste if time for you

RugerFan

I know a few men who got very sick(e coli?) after their biopsy. My dad was one of them. Ended up in the hospital. Hopefully your antibiotic will take care of that.

Linefinder

Yeah, I got an antibiotic shot and a pill this AM, and another pill to take before bedtime. Hope that works.

Hardest part of the day was a required self administered enema while getting headbutted by our new 12 lb cat. Some things are better left alone.

Mike

orchidman

You and I have a date involving beer and food and old port to keep my friend. Will be having words with the guy upstairs to ensure you are still around.

tennmike

Hope the biopsy results are negative, and no infection from biopsy procedure. Hang in there. Prayers out for ya for a good outcome!

Uhhh...............ummmm...................what's this about a new 12 lb. cat?

NN

Just prayed-----and your right, it is not fun; though not as bad as the apprehension.

Linefinder

tennmike said:

Hope the biopsy results are negative, and no infection from biopsy procedure. Hang in there. Prayers out for ya for a good outcome!

Uhhh...............ummmm...................what's this about a new 12 lb. cat?

The wife decided to get right back on that horse. Floki (we didn't name her), is a 3 year old black tabby. Soph was a princess...this one is still about 30% cat.

Six-Gun

Praying for a negative result, buddy! 

Glad you guys got a new cat to help share some love.  

CHIRO1989

Linefinder said:

Yeah, I got an antibiotic shot and a pill this AM, and another pill to take before bedtime. Hope that works.

Hardest part of the day was a required self administered enema while getting headbutted by our new 12 lb cat. Some things are better left alone.

Mike

I'll let you know how many days it takes to get this image out of my head.....

Justsomedude

Can anyone fill me in on why it sounds so common to get an infection with this biopsy? Surely to God they don't use a rusty nail in today's day and age.

earlyagain

I hope its nothing. I may need one someday. Ive had some issues they're watching.

Living in this city I guess I can take another pain in the butt.

zorba

Justsomedude said:

Can anyone fill me in on why it sounds so common to get an infection with this biopsy? Surely to God they don't use a rusty nail in today's day and age.

Cause they basically drive a tack from your colon into your prostate...

I'm hyper vigilant about prostate cancer, my father died from it. NOT the way I want to go...

NN

zorba said:

Justsomedude said:

Can anyone fill me in on why it sounds so common to get an infection with this biopsy? Surely to God they don't use a rusty nail in today's day and age.

Cause they basically drive a tack from your colon into your prostate...

I'm hyper vigilant about prostate cancer, my father died from it. NOT the way I want to go...

Actually 6 or 8 tacks, hollow needles, maybe more in some cases. 

JerryBobCo

Linefinder said:

Yeah, I got an antibiotic shot and a pill this AM, and another pill to take before bedtime. Hope that works.

Hardest part of the day was a required self administered enema while getting headbutted by our new 12 lb cat. Some things are better left alone.

Mike

Only you can make something like administering an enema seem funny.  You paint a picture I NEVER want to see.

Gene L

Linefinder said:

Will do. PSA levels were 0.97 (great), and the MRI 6 months ago came back negative. My urologist seemed pretty upbeat, but said the gold standard for detection was an MRI and biopsy 6 months apart. So...today was the biopsy part of it.

The biopsy is actually performed by technicians, not an MD. The guy that did mine has 30+ years on the job. After the procedure was over he said, "Of course, I can't diagnose, only your Doc can give you your actual test results. But everything looked good to me and I'm thinking this will turn out to be a whole lot of nothing".

So I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Mike

Hoping for a positive report,  Hang tough.  Was this routine or did you have symptoms that called for a test?  I need one, but probably won't get one.


Is it possible when you were PD shooting and concentrating on your scope so much that a PD snuck up behind you and decided it was time for some Payback?  They are a burrowing animal, aren't they?

tennmike

Linefinder said:

tennmike said:

Hope the biopsy results are negative, and no infection from biopsy procedure. Hang in there. Prayers out for ya for a good outcome!

Uhhh...............ummmm...................what's this about a new 12 lb. cat?

The wife decided to get right back on that horse. Floki (we didn't name her), is a 3 year old black tabby. Soph was a princess...this one is still about 30% cat.

Give Floki a while to acclimatize and settle in in the new home. Darn cats have to take an inordinate amount of time to settle into a new home and get comfortable. Dogs just take over and sniff everything, and then they're good to go.   

GunNut

Linefinder said:

Will do. PSA levels were 0.97 (great), and the MRI 6 months ago came back negative. My urologist seemed pretty upbeat, but said the gold standard for detection was an MRI and biopsy 6 months apart. So...today was the biopsy part of it.

The biopsy is actually performed by technicians, not an MD. The guy that did mine has 30+ years on the job. After the procedure was over he said, "Of course, I can't diagnose, only your Doc can give you your actual test results. But everything looked good to me and I'm thinking this will turn out to be a whole lot of nothing".

So I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Mike

So without trying to get too personal, really just looking to learn something.  You have low PSA levels and a negative MRI. assuming they did not feel anything in the annual finger up your ass check, why the biopsy?

Linefinder

8-9 months ago I started peeing blood. My primary doc referred me to a uroligist who scoped my bladder and found a mass. He performed surgery and removed a fatty cyst that was the cause of the bleeding. While doing his thing, he noted my prostate was enlarged so he scrapped a bit of it away and sent it along with the cyst to the lab for analysis.

The cyst proved benign, but 4 of the 72 prostate scrapings came back positive for cancer. So he scheduled a PSA test and an MRI. The PSA reading came back 0.97, which is actually pretty low. The MRI came back negative. His opinion was that, by pure dumb luck, the cancer was in the very early stages and his scrapings may have actually got it all. But....he wanted a biopsy 6 months later just to be sure. He said an MRI and biopsy spread 6 months apart was the best way to avoid a false positive/negative. But the PSA reading and the MRI results gave initial results that looke pretty good.

Mike

Make_My_Day

Congrats on the good results. I had the cancer in 2015, and had radiation as the cure. Now my PSA's at 6 months intervals are 0.2

GunNut

Linefinder said:

8-9 months ago I started peeing blood. My primary doc referred me to a uroligist who scoped my bladder and found a mass. He performed surgery and removed a fatty cyst that was the cause of the bleeding. While doing his thing, he noted my prostate was enlarged so he scrapped a bit of it away and sent it along with the cyst to the lab for analysis.

The cyst proved benign, but 4 of the 72 prostate scrapings came back positive for cancer. So he scheduled a PSA test and an MRI. The PSA reading came back 0.97, which is actually pretty low. The MRI came back negative. His opinion was that, by pure dumb luck, the cancer was in the very early stages and his scrapings may have actually got it all. But....he wanted a biopsy 6 months later just to be sure. He said an MRI and biopsy spread 6 months apart was the best way to avoid a false positive/negative. But the PSA reading and the MRI results gave initial results that looke pretty good.

Mike

Damn!  That fatty cyst might have been a stroke of luck!!!

Linefinder

Yep. I've been lucky more than once in the past couple of years. 

Keeps me looking over my shoulder, though. LOL!

Mike

GunNut

Linefinder said:

Yep. I've been lucky more than once in the past couple of years. 

Keeps me looking over my shoulder, though. LOL!

Mike

I’m sure it does 🤣🤣🤣

Justsomedude

Strange things like that can happen. Some say it's the Lord working in mysterious ways and some say its just coincidence. Weird thing happened when my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. He hurt his back at work and needed an xray. They did the xray which showed (here's the part I'm not fully clear on) an injury that would only be solved with surgery, but they also saw a spot on his lung. They set him up for further imaging within the week about the lung spot which turned out to be cancer and lo and behold the damage to his spine "disappeared". Its almost like something or someone was trying to get his attention.

Diver43

Linefinder said:

Yep. I've been lucky more than once in the past couple of years. 

Keeps me looking over my shoulder, though. LOL!

Mike

Sounds like you are one up on the odds.  If you keep checking your six, nothing can ever sneak up on you

JerryBobCo

And all this time I thought peeing blood was a bad thing.

I'm glad you caught it early, buddy.

Rafterman

My Dad was peeing blood = bladder cancer. Lord how that poor man suffered. The whole family suffered as well. Lots of bad memories there.