No cancer, and nothing to be concerned about unless the PSA skyrockets. The biopsy itself felt like a hole puncher being stuck up my but and punching holes in my prostate. No blood in urine that I could see, a little in stool, and noticeable in the semen. Regarding the latter, I don’t think a little blood from down below is going to elicit sympathy from Ms. P. All in all, I’m glad it’s over and thankful for the good result.
This good news. A little pain for some peace of mind. Cheers.
Very good news! Glad to hear it. The only reason the biopsy feels like a hole puncher being shoved up your butt and punching holes in your prostate is that a biopsy IS a hole puncher being shoved up your butt and punching holes in your prostate.
It sounded just like a hole puncher.
That’s great news!
(And it also makes me very thankful that I do not have a prostate.)
good news!
. . . which, in the process, necessarily jams 400 species of intestinal bacteria into your prostate, none of which belong there. The procedure, as I’ve heard it described, logically includes a ten-day course of some industrial-strength antibiotic pills, some of which (the fluoroquinolone-class drugs) can have some gruesomely devastating adverse reactions of their own.
We have a friend who hasn’t been seen since the beginning of the pandemic. His friends all assumed he was being extra cautious.
He just recently announced that he was diagnosed with prostate problems right at the start of quarantine. Every step of the way he received the worst news possible. Every test confirmed the worst fears.
After having all sorts of surgeries, treatments, radioactive beads, etc he is in remission. He is still immunosuppressed but is looking forward to the day he can leave his house without going to the hospital.
Hooray!
Three days of antibiotics at this end (pun intended) and no after effects apart from an involuntary diving for the floor while yelling “Incoming!” whenever I hear a hole punch or staple gun. Given what they found and the rapid treatments that were called for, antibiotics were the less of my problems.
Do we know each other?!
We may share a friend. Is your friend a really cool dude retired from Westinghouse with family in Mississippi?
No, sorry, I was trying to be funny noting the parallel to my own recent case
My husband is about to get a prostate biopsy. Anything you want to share that you think he’d want to know about?
I had mine years ago and they did find cancer, the good news was that the Doctors all said they had never detected Prostate cancer so early. Some tiny radioactive things the size of a grain of rice were installed, and I am cancer free.
I took a few days off, and had blood in my semen for a couple weeks.
I suppose, if you gotta get cancer, it was not bad at all. Kaiser did a real good job with classes, etc. If you catch prostate cancer early, your chance of a full recovery is very high.
I had little pain from the biopsy and overall, not as bad as a colonoscopy (which aren’t all that bad, either).
Sounds like you had the same treatment my father-in-law had years ago.
There’s a thread in IMHO where I asked that question for myself. I didn’t think it was that bad. I got a shot to numb the area which didn’t hurt much. The doctor warned me before every “hole punch”. I was less painful than I expected. I drove myself home when it was over. I wore a sanitary pad the rest of the day in case there was bleeding from the rectum, but there wasn’t. What really surprised me was that there was no blood in my urine that I could see; I understand that isn’t most people’s experience.
Oops, duplicated my own post. Self-delete
So long as they are generous with the numbing agent, this won’t be too bad. He’ll have a very strange feeling afterward walking around with a numb feeling up inside, but it passes soon. I thing everything else you saw here sums up the typical experience.
Yeah, hardly pleasant, but not as bad as having my ingrown toenails operated on.