On 31st May this year I went to A and E with acute urine retention. They installed a catheter and did blood and urine analysis. My urine was clear but the blood test revealed a psa level of 12, though I was told at the time that my blood results were "normal" and I accepted that. I was then sent home. 2 weeks later I failed a "voiding trial", so had to have another catheter installed. Six and a half weeks later, on 30th July I saw a consultant who did a DRE which found nothing on the side of the prostate he could access. He informed me about the psa level from my first blood check on 31/5 - eight and a half weeks earlier. Further blood and urine analysis on 30th July indicated a urine infection (catheters are an absolute curse) and a psa level of 18 probably partly raised because of the infection. A week or so later my next appointment with the consultant was made for the end of December - this year! However, that appointment has since been brought forward to 24/9 thankfully, all of which means that 14 weeks after my psa levels were found to be 12 (not particularly high, but above the level where actions should be initiated I suspect) I still don't know if I have prostate cancer and I won't know either way until at least sixteen and a half weeks have passed. All the while, I was thinking that things were moving along at a reasonable pace (though an indwelling catheter hits quality of life really hard if you're normally very active) until I came across refs to the "2 week wait" rule in this forum and elsewhere today??. Have I been missing out?? Has someone been dragging their feet, or is this kind of delay just par for the course? I'm 64. Any info would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
