PSA check

[lindyloo59]

my husband has been in hospital recently with uti infection. Had to have intravenous antibiotics.

He has since had a CT scan and cystoscope since ben discharged from hospital.

He had a PSA check on Thursday and was just wondering how long results take to come through?

All his othe tests were fine thank goodness.

He was also wondering if it was too soon after having infection that he had PSA test done.

Thanks

[Gardenpests]

In these parts, my outpatient PSA results are available the following day. If the PSA comes back high, my shoot from the hip response is to expect a confirmatory test before 'action' is taken.

[Tall_Allen]

The PSA will be elevated because of the UTI and cystoscopy. PSA is not a test for cancer, and certainly will give no indication one way or another in his case.

[lindyloo59 in reply to Tall_Allen]

I thought it was a test to see if levels were elevated which indicated a risk of cancer or in the future?

[Tall_Allen in reply to lindyloo59]

No. Many benign conditions affect PSA, and with UTI and cysto, it is probably elevated due to benign conditions.

[conbio]

Hi-

I had a UTI - which luckily for me, is why they found I had PC. But - even on antibiotics it will take at least a week or so for the PSA to come down to baseline. Your doc should recommend re-testing PSA in a month or so. They followed my PSA for 3 months before deciding something was up and then doing the MRI and targeted biopsy.

One step at a time - his prostate is irritated right now and it will take a bit to settle down.