Bazza

I'm a just few weeks ahead of you and I hope my experience might help.   I've been checked regularly for eight years following an earlier suspicious PSA reading and just before Christmas it was up again (6.5) so I had an MRI scan followed by a biopsy and then a face-to-face session with the consultant and specialist nurse.   The biopsy, which was a bit uncomfortable but nothing more, showed Gleason stage 9, which was a bit of a shock, especially as they then started me on some initial hormone therapy that morning.   A bone scan followed which didn't show any sign of the cancer spreading so its a choice now between surgery or hormone/radiotherapy.  As I've just turned 78, surgery isn't recommended and I'm going for the latter.   Its all been a whirlwind but I suppose it was always been there in the background.  Everyone at the hospital has been  very helpful and the prognosis is good.  It's still scarey, though, and at one stage when I was feeling really down the helpline adviser at Prostate Cancer UK was very approachable, really helpful, and did put things in perspective.

Bazza

I'm a just few weeks ahead of you and I hope my experience might help.   I've been checked regularly for eight years following an earlier suspicious PSA reading and just before Christmas it was up again (6.5) so I had an MRI scan followed by a biopsy and then a face-to-face session with the consultant and specialist nurse.   The biopsy, which was a bit uncomfortable but nothing more, showed Gleason stage 9, which was a bit of a shock, especially as they then started me on some initial hormone therapy that morning.   A bone scan followed which didn't show any sign of the cancer spreading so its a choice now between surgery or hormone/radiotherapy.  As I've just turned 78, surgery isn't recommended and I'm going for the latter.   Its all been a whirlwind but I suppose it was always been there in the background.  Everyone at the hospital has been  very helpful and the prognosis is good.  It's still scarey, though, and at one stage when I was feeling really down the helpline adviser at Prostate Cancer UK was very approachable, really helpful, and did put things in perspective.