when i was first told about a PSA test i was 48 my numbers where high the doctor choose to say it is nothing to worry about lets just give you some antibiotics to see if its an infection or you might have cancer.My first numbers where about 6 to a 7 so time went on and my numbers where staying around a 4. i had the normal test of the magic finger saying my prostate wasnt swollen and asked all the questions if i had problems peeing or getting an erection plus others ones. my answers where always no i had not any of the problems they were asking me.
so couple years later my numbers where staying around a 4 this is where a problem is kinda started you can play the number game as i called it or do a biopsy.because i trusted his judgement and fallowed what he told me i didnt second guess him. then when i was about to turn 51 it was suggested that i go see the uroligist and get him to look into my numbers. so i said ok, now comes the tricky part my uroligist told me why the doctors do what they do because the amount of stress alot of males put themselves thru they beat around the bush because of all the different things that affect the PSA levels. so alot of guys play the numbers game i chose the biopsy the only trues way to find out
i told him i already shit in a bag cause i didnt want to take the chance of a reversal going bad and or my Hirschsprung's disease coming back then me wearing a daiper like my house inspector had to do, since there is no 100percent guarantee in anything we have surgery on
so i kept telling him to just set up for the biopsy he kept telling me the down sides and all the shit that would happen and the possibles. so i finally got my tests done yes i did get sick with sepis for a week like he said i would i told him i would rather be sick for a week and able to find out that A i had cancer or B i didnt. well in my case for my birthday present i found out i had prostate cancer.
so the next thing you get to do is set up another visit to find out your level of cancer. then to be told you have to wait 6 more weeks after your biopsy before you can do surgery.then being told they have a nationaly known scale called the gleason scale all the doctors around the world fallow this scale. he was really good at explaing all the stuff to me except for one part that really made me mad it was a small thing to he was thinking of me getting a erection and having sex, i said no its about me having to wear a daiper cause i would be peeing myself he didnt say anything about this part the word he thought he used was ;incontinence me being who i am went off saying what the hell does that mean and it was all about no bladder control, so i told him if he would have said that word i would have asked him what it ment cause i speak in laymen and exspect things to be explained where a first grader can under stand.
after all the things being said he told me i had a slow growing cancer, i could be hit by a bus or have a heart attack or simple out live my cancer and be really old beore it might affect me. i already knew i was going to do the surgery cause my daughter allready lost a step dad to cancer. so when i told her i had cancer she was allread giving me a lecture on getting it out and how she didnt want to lose 2 dads. i told her i was waiting for a doctor that would do the surgery it wasnt easy i had been turned down couple times cause i was not able to do the ;Laparoscopic surgery cause of all my surgeries in the past i needed a doctor that would do a ;radical prostatectomy we found only one in the whole state of montana since denver said no and salt lake va didnt have any either
so to make my story small i would have to say a bigger man will do the biopsy to show everyone he cares and loves them. since i chose to have the surgery i caught my cancer before it spread any were else i just got told that my prostate was the only thing i had 30percent cancer in. all around my prostate was cancer free as was the surrounding eras all free but i still have to have my psa levels check for the next 5 years