OK guys over 50, are you getting your annual blood work done with PSA tests?

[Care4all]

I'm nearing 80.

Likely not necessary....though it's just a blood test, and doesn't hurt...you'll likely need a second one 6 months to a year later to see if the PSA is rapidly going up....

 

[Care4all]

We're already "goners", eh? We've outlived our use on this earth.

Shoot! My dad is gonna be 94 and mom in a few months 91.... Neither think they are old, yet!!! It's absolutely amazing to watch! They move in a semi slow motion, and don't even realize it...they just view it as..."Heh! I'm still moving!"

You are a spring chicken! With lots of years left!

 

[GLASNOST]

Likely not necessary....though it's just a blood test, and doesn't hurt.......

If I don't cry will I get a lollipop? Anyway, I always turn my head. I passed out once watching the needle going in. It's true.

 

[GLASNOST]

Shoot! My dad is gonna be 94 and mom in a few months 91.... Neither think they are old, yet!!! It's absolutely amazing to watch! They move in a semi slow motion, and don't even realize it...they just view it as..."Heh! I'm still moving!"

You are a spring chicken! With lots of years left!

Highly uplifting words. Thank you.

 

[80zephyr]

I have the BRCA2 gene, Makes me very susceptible to some cancers, including prostate cancer.

I get checked twice a year.

 

[DGS49]

When I passed age 70, they stopped the PSA test and the digital exam of my prostate. I was told that they were no longer necessary.

 

[Care4all]

If I don't cry will I get a lollipop? Anyway, I always turn my head. I passed out once watching the needle going in. It's true.

Same here! But I learned to control my fear and hatred of needles, by closing my eyes....silly, but it works for me....oh and my head is turned away from the shot giver, early on, or blood drawer, early on....so I don't even get a glimpse of the needle or tubes for blood, or any of that...

 

[80zephyr]

When I passed age 70, they stopped the PSA test and the digital exam of my prostate. I was told that they were no longer necessary.

What??

 

[sparky]

I swear they like to aggravated me to death over it. EMs, a phone call....And that was just two days after I got it!

Alright, alright already, I'll shit in the bucket for goodness sake. Jeez.

lol!
they're still workin' on me here, it kinda reminds me of what i can get my dog to do for a biscuit....

~S~

 

[Care4all]

I have the BRCA2 gene, Makes me very susceptible to some cancers, including prostate cancer.

I get checked twice a year.

How do you go about getting the gene test? Does insurance cover it? Is it costly?

 

[GLASNOST]

Same here! But I learned to control my fear and hatred of needles, by closing my eyes....silly, but it works for me....oh and my head is turned away from the shot giver, early on, or blood drawer, early on....so I don't even get a glimpse of the needle or tubes for blood, or any of that...

I don't close my eyes (I turn my head) except at the dentist. Closing my eyes makes me feel like a coward. In any case, the nurse is a beauty, the dentist is not - I have my priorities.

 

[80zephyr]

How do you go about getting the gene test? Does insurance cover it? Is it costly?

When quite a few young women in my family started getting breast cancer, doctors became suspicious. Because my family had a history, my insurance paid. I hear that it is quite expensive

 

[MarathonMike]

My husband's PSA test had gone up to over 4.0 in a short time period, so we went to see a urologist...his older brother had been diagnosed with prostate cancer just two years prior, his dad had died of cancer at 57, so with the higher PSA it was recommended to get it checked out further.

Anyway, at this appointment the Urologist did have to do the finger probe to see if they could feel any tumors I think?, of which the hubby had never had before and was a little nervous....plus the Urologist was a younger woman, I was there in the room on the other side of the curtain.... The whole thing was stressful for him, which usually makes him say something silly or tell some sort of joke to ease his nerves....he was not looking forward to this probe and imagined it hurting...

So, I hear him say to her...."Just remember, this orifice has seen nothing but outbound traffic! Be gentle!"

Oh my gosh, I've never heard a doctor laugh so hard, and I with her, and then Matt too...which eased the tension in the room and his concern!

Hopefully they caught it early enough, my SIL boyfriend's was 7 when he got checked and had to have the operation and radiation.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

LGBTQ+ guys love colonoscopies and getting it shoved up their keisters.

Is this the voice of experience talking?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Hopefully they caught it early enough, my SIL boyfriend's was 7 when he got checked and had to have the operation and radiation.

7? Why does your sister-in-law have a boyfriend who is 7?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When I passed age 70, they stopped the PSA test and the digital exam of my prostate. I was told that they were no longer necessary.

They figure if you have prostate cancer, something else will kill you before it does.

 

[Polishprince]

Is this the voice of experience talking?

Actually, yes.

A couple of homos that I used to work with a while back told me exactly that, and that's what I'm repeating.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Actually, yes.

A couple of homos that I used to work with a while back told me exactly that, and that's what I'm repeating.

That's called hearsay.

I meant you knew for certain!

 

[Polishprince]

That's called hearsay.

I meant you knew for certain!

Actually, I didn't get a thrill at all when I had my own colonoscopy. But then I'm normative.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Actually, I didn't get a thrill at all when I had my own colonoscopy. But then I'm normative.

I don't think you understand colonoscopies. The prep is horrific torture, and the procedure is simply take a nap!