re: What age did your prostate problems begin?

Thanks

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Every man gets it eventually. Very un-scientifically I can say that it happens earlier to heavy drinkers.

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Not true in my unscientific study. Heavy drinker here for past 30+ years and I still piss like a Russian racehorse.

It's not my prostate, I swear. I just have a narrow urethra.

Do these sick freaks keep their prostate?

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You can now add "STD" along with CIA, DIA and FBI to this list of federally funded alphabet acronyms. Good lort, look what Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman, both of the Manhattan Institute, discovered. Before you dive in, grab an air-sickness bag. In this era of DOGE and radical transparency we expect there to be much more of this.

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Only thing I will add here is that a lot of things can artificially lower PSA. It doesn't mean it has resolved your high PSA issue, it just covers it up. Don't take anything for the purpose of lowering your PSA. If you do you could easily be covering up signs of worse and worse cancer.

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This is good advice. PSA tests are already pretty inadequate as a diagnostic tool given the amount of things other than cancer which can elevate PSA levels...I have asked many urologists about the effectiveness of PSA testing for prostate cancer and its a lot like capitalism, it is lousy until you compare it to all the alternatives. It is the tool we have. It is entirely possible to substantially lower your PSA with all sorts of over the counter supplements and prescription drugs...doing so simply to lower PSA is a bad idea....it can mask a very serious health condition.


Speaking of tests that aren't great diagnostic tools consider the DRE (Digital Rectal Exam - the finger up the backside). I have asked every urologist and oncologist who have treated me for the last 17 years about the DRE as a diagnostic tool and everyone of them agreed it is basically something the patient expects and is not overly informative. The first one done by a trained professional can indeed indicate an enlargement and possible even a lump or lesion...subsequent DREs, especially performed by another doctor several months later, rarely add any new info which is not known from imaging etc. I have told doctors I was fine with them NOT fingering my arse and nary a one disagreed with the sentiment....its pretty useless as a diagnostic tool by all accounts