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Posted 25 Feb 2022 at 15:14

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Roger /Lyn

Does this help. I don't think it mentions orchiectomy.

https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t22790-15-yrs-on-back-to-GP---Hot-flushes-return

Thanks Chris

Thanks Chris - happy memories but definitely all men present still had their testicles. I also note that as well as Ross apparently posting from beyond the grave in 2019, we had Murf dead & buried but happily, both are still alive & kicking ... logged into the forum 3 days ago 🤣

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 08 Apr 2022 at 23:49

Just a an update on the matter of a PIRADS 4 being discovered during an MRI carried out this January.

As the PSA blood test results failed to materialise (lost internally according to the Uro's secretary) from the test carried out at the time of the MRI, I had my GP arrange for one to be done locally and was a little shocked to see that it had risen to 2.3 from 1.9 (Oct 2021), so a rise of .4 in 22 weeks. I suppose my thinking has been based on the PIRADS 4 lesion possibly being something other than my PCa progressing and hence the shock at seeing my belief bubble being burst.

Before I take the decision to go with the Uro's suggestion that I have a TP biopsy, I'm going to request that he arranges for me to have another MRI but this time a multiparametric MRI. I was not happy to have a bog standard MRI back in January and felt that any imaging obtained from it could not be compared with the previous two MRIs which were both multiparametric and showed no lesions of significance.

I have arranged with my GP for another PSA blood test to be carried out in a months time and with this result and hopefully by then the result from a multiparametric MRI, I shall be better placed to make a decision on the need for a biopsy.

Watch this space.

Keep well and safe all of you.

Roger

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Posted 10 Apr 2022 at 19:07

Roger, hope all turns out ok for you. As age increases, now 76, my head/body turns more to if need be whatever path your body will find easiest to take choose that one.

Choose well and keep as good as you can

Thanks all for the memory trip and pleased to read of those surviving.

Ray

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Posted 11 Apr 2022 at 00:05

Thanks Ray, the path my body is taking seems to be pretty much as expected and as long as I can keep on seeing around the bends before I see the end, I'm a happy bunny.

Take care and keep safe.

Roger

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Posted 06 May 2022 at 00:30

Latest PSA has seen a drop to 2.1, a drop of .2 in a month, so what to do now that the upward trend has slipped back!

I'm still of the opinion that the PIRAD 4 result from the MRI at the beginning of the year may be flawed, so what to do now I ask myself.

I'm tempted to continue on AS for the next 6 months and see if I can wangle a multiparametric MRI in the coming months.

Keep safe people and enjoy the summer.

Roger

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Posted 06 May 2022 at 01:30

Any drop in psa is positive I would also be asking for another MRI scan 👍

User

Posted 16 Jun 2022 at 09:56

During the consultation with my Uro last week I requested that I have another MRI but multiparametric rather than the basic one.

He asked why and I explained that the mpMRI would be more precise, to which he said the latest basic MRIs were as good as the mpMRIs and would not consider scheduling one for me.

I asked about the PIRAD 4 lesion that had showed on the MRI image and in context with my stable MRI what was his considered opinion and he said nothing to worry about and he'd see me in a years time.

I then reminded him that he'd arranged for me to have a TP biopsy and why if there was nothing to worry about did he feel I needed a biopsy. "Oh, did I", was his response!

Needless to say I'm slowly losing confidence in the man and shall be looking at a referral to another Uro.

Roger

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Posted 16 Jun 2022 at 10:19

Par for the course unfortunately!

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