Saw palmetto

[Meatfreed]

I experienced enlarged prostate symptoms (frequent, limited urination) in my late 30's, which disappeared as soon as I started taking a daily tablet of saw palmetto extract. It's been 25 years and over 9,000 tablets later, I'm still symptom free.

[Tall_Allen]

Saw palmetto may mask PSA.

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[E2-Guy in reply to Tall_Allen]

17 years ago I was coming down the elevator at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas with three urologists who had just finished a day of annual PCa screening. I mentioned to them that I had a significant family history of PCa and I for me it wasn't a matter of 'will' but 'when'. I then told them that I was doing/taking all the recommended 'stuff' like saw palmetto, vitamin E, zinc, selenium, etc in an effort to combat this nasty disease. One of them said, "There is a chance that those supplements (especially the saw palmetto) may mask symptoms/PSA." Sure enough, two years later, totally asymptomatic with a PSA of <5.0, Gleason 8, I was diagnosed with this crap! My surgeon who performed my RP told me that I most likely had PCa for AT LEAST five years.

[Hidden]

I hope that you are being screened for prostate cancer annually. Prostate cancer is asymptomatic in its beginning stages. Screening means DRE and PSA. BTW I did have BPH and received TURP surgery for that, ten years prior to my DRE revealed prostate cancer. Saw palmetto did nothing for my BPH symptoms.

[j-o-h-n]

Great news.... but check your PSA (yearly). Don't worry about the digital exam....It's better to get poked there than being poked in your eye with a stick.

Keep us posted....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 10/31/2019 5:44 PM DST