Hey, me again here. Tina hasn't yet got our response from the expert yet, perhaps we'll hear today. In the meantime, I'm very hopeful that you got a good meeting with your doctor yesterday, that you got good blood numbers and that a lot of your questions got answered, at least for now. (And I hope you mentioned how frustrating it was to have access to no one in the last several days, especially with your PA recommending a further procedure.)
How did it go?
Did the kidney numbers show that indeed you need to do another percutaneous nephrostomy? I assume that's still scheduled for today, if so. I'm so sorry about that, I know it's uncomfortable at best and painful and mentally taxing at worst. I hope it's not a permanent situation, but rather one that can be returned to normal if the kidneys can heal and do their own work. Either way, I hope it brings your body some relief from the high creatine numbers so your doctors can move on to work on the reason for the PSA numbers.
I did find this "In a successful nephrostomy, the catheter is inserted, and urine drains into the collection bag. How long the catheter stays in place depends on the reason for its insertion. In people with pelvic cancer or bladder cancer where the ureter is blocked by a tumor, the catheter will stay in place until the tumor is surgically removed. If the cancer is inoperable, the catheter may have to stay in place for the rest of the patient's life."
that was here:
http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/La-Pa/Nephrostomy.html
Which suggests to me that if you do have a tumor that is not in the prostate, after that tumor was found and removed, perhaps the nephrostomy also could be removed.
I got interested in searching for reasons (other than the obvious) or other interesting information on high PSA numbers. Just in case any of this is material you haven't found on your own:
Hang tough. I know today's not easy. I hope you are feeling better about the level of information you got from your doctor, and that today's procedure goes well. As soon as we get an opinion from the doctor we asked, it will appear here. In the meantime, I'll check back to see how you're doing, what you've found out recently and if I can be of any research help. Diane
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Philedude,
Hey, me again here. Tina hasn't yet got our response from the expert yet, perhaps we'll hear today. In the meantime, I'm very hopeful that you got a good meeting with your doctor yesterday, that you got good blood numbers and that a lot of your questions got answered, at least for now. (And I hope you mentioned how frustrating it was to have access to no one in the last several days, especially with your PA recommending a further procedure.)
How did it go?
Did the kidney numbers show that indeed you need to do another percutaneous nephrostomy? I assume that's still scheduled for today, if so. I'm so sorry about that, I know it's uncomfortable at best and painful and mentally taxing at worst. I hope it's not a permanent situation, but rather one that can be returned to normal if the kidneys can heal and do their own work. Either way, I hope it brings your body some relief from the high creatine numbers so your doctors can move on to work on the reason for the PSA numbers.
I did find this "In a successful nephrostomy, the catheter is inserted, and urine drains into the collection bag. How long the catheter stays in place depends on the reason for its insertion. In people with pelvic cancer or bladder cancer where the ureter is blocked by a tumor, the catheter will stay in place until the tumor is surgically removed. If the cancer is inoperable, the catheter may have to stay in place for the rest of the patient's life."
that was here:
http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/La-Pa/Nephrostomy.html
Which suggests to me that if you do have a tumor that is not in the prostate, after that tumor was found and removed, perhaps the nephrostomy also could be removed.
I got interested in searching for reasons (other than the obvious) or other interesting information on high PSA numbers. Just in case any of this is material you haven't found on your own:
http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/122/33812/psa-antibiotics
http://www.phoenix5.org/Basics/UndPSAJH.html
http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic129709.html
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/746815.html
Hang tough. I know today's not easy. I hope you are feeling better about the level of information you got from your doctor, and that today's procedure goes well. As soon as we get an opinion from the doctor we asked, it will appear here. In the meantime, I'll check back to see how you're doing, what you've found out recently and if I can be of any research help. Diane
June 23, 2009 - 8:40amThis Comment
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