[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:
Dr.PowerClean wrote:
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I have been taking saw palmetto and other prostate herbs due to symptoms for the past eight months and I thought my BPH type symptoms had improved.
The question I raise here for all of you...how much can T replacement raise your PSA? And have any of you been through prostate cancer, despite being a doc, I don't have much experience on this one. Doc
This may be of interest, and it can not be accepted on face value:
Change in Prostate Specific Antigen Following Androgen Stimulation is an Independent Predictor of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
The Journal of Urology, Volume 179, Issue 6, June 2008, Pages 2192-2196
Robert S. Svatek, Michael J. Shulman, Elie A. Benaim, Thomas E. Rogers, Vitaly Margulis
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_uoikey=B7XMT-4S9NGJ1-29&_origin=SDEMFRASCII&_version=1&md5=f9de8b45c182f0d81eb52ffbc81bec10
Prostatitis is common.
An ultrasound is inexpensive and reassuring.
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I appreciate the post, but the more I read the more I get confused. I thought I was “out of the woods” with a 2.5 but apparently I am not. I also read that standard ultrasounds detect maybe only 60% of prostate cancers. Constrast may help this but is not frequently used in the US. Biopsies of the prostate are apparently the most diagnostic, as one would expect, but with each study the number of sites needed for high accuracy rises…ten sites, fifteen, eighteen.
To add insult to injury i have to wait a couple month before my new insurance kicks in to get my studies, whichever one I need, because if the news is bad treatment would be expensive.
Not a feel good thread, sorry. Doc