Anxiety about biopsy results

Happy New Year to all!

As my sig indicates, I started this journey about a year ago with about as "entry level" a PCa diagnosis as one can have. I had my 2nd biopsy Dec. 17. Uro found nothing on DRE at that time, and described ultrasound as "unimpressive." In fact, as he's walking out the door he says over his shoulder "you probably don't even have to come in for your January 4th appointment for the results of this... If there is little or no change, I'll just call you."

Well, here we are on the eve of the New Year and the phone has not rung. I don't really have a question about all this, but just wanted to vent about my uro having such an absurd approach to delivering results. Either don't give out the results until an appointment (preferred, obviously) or call regardless of the results. Who the F teaches these guys on messaging techniques? It is raising my anxiety level by the hour and effectively wrecked the holidays. Just ridiculous.

Thanks for allowing me the rant!

Paul

Paul,
I suspect your doc is just trying to say in his own clumsy way that all will be fine when the pathology report comes back. But I'm with you. You need to see, and have a copy of the full report for your files and for future reference if ever needed. Some patients don't want this level of information. Not unsurprisingly, those aren't the kind of patients who turn up on a board like this. Your doc may just need to know that you, like most of us here, are an involved patient who sees doctors as respected partners on our decisions, but not the guardians of our medical information.
Jim

Some docs just have any bed side manners. At the first injection with trimix my URO injected 30 units. The script said start at 20 units. Went rock hard in 10minutes with pain level 15. He said , oh yea Trimix causes sever pain in 30% of men as he is walking out, if that does not go down in 3 hrs call me. I said what about taking Sudafed? He says what will that do. See you in 3 months, Bye. This is after he sort of rushed me into RP without expressing the full story of side effects. My GP has even expressed dismay about this guys attitude. Hope the news is good at your appt.

Anxiety and the diagnosis of cancer go hand in hand in my experience. A gift a friend gave me some years ago is to pause, reflect, and ask yourself two questions. What do I know and what do I think?

You know you had a second biopsy, you know the first found one core of G6. You don't know what the new pathology report says. The trouble comes from what you think. I can guess some of the random thoughts of it must be bad that is why he didn't call! We could think he didn't call because there are no results yet.

Unfortunately, I suspect you will stress until you know, that is how I tend to operate. As the old tv show cop said, just the facts ma'am! Stressing will not change the facts, try to let go and wait for new facts. happy new year. Denis

Many thanks for all the responses. It is great to have a shoulder to whine on in this forum. I feel somewhat embarrassed to even post considering how my health compares to others here with much more serious issues. But you guys always come through.

It really is great advice to not worry about something until one has something to worry about. Easier said than done obviously, but certainly something to strive for. And yes, Redwing, viewing this as a marathon can be a good coping mechanism.

-Paul

I'm with Howard3569. My first 2 urologists knew what they were doing but lacked the patient skills I needed, which caused me anxiety. My latest doctor who did my surgery gets it and it's made all the difference.

ejc61
With Gleason 6 and pirads 3 (2/17) with one lesion , I would think getting another MRI before a second biopsy would make better sense.

Paul - hope your doc reached out to you by now and hope all webt well.