Covid Vaccine and PSA spike

Frank,

Yeah, about 10 yrs out now, with margin, and monitor every few months to see if it is "high time for SRT". Right at .11 on last two tests.

Seems my numbers since my shots 1 and 2 in Feb have seemed strangely variable. Not what I expected, but how to know if it's covid or vaccine related, or just natural progression that will need treatment? Shot 3 coming next week. See Uro for annual in Dec.

Here's one uro:

https://cw34.com/news/local/palm-beach-county-urologist-seeing-false-psa-levels-in-men-due-to-vaccines

In this study, researchers looked at two other causes of psa changes, inflammation and T levels:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/brady-urology-institute/patient-information/books-publications/articles/two-non-cancerous-causes-for-higher-psa

Does make me wonder, since I apparently do have some left over tissue (3+3=6). If it hasn't mutated.

Will post again if I hear anything relevant.

Robert

The reality is until someone actually studies it we will never know for sure.

People will passionately, emotionally, argue both positions....but until someone follows 1000 or so men monitoring their psa after definitive treatment, some folks in a group that didn't get the vaccine and some that did, nobody will be able to prove anything. Until then it will always be anecdotal.

For me, personally, I became detectable 1 month after my second dose. I will always wonder if the vaccine had a hand in it.....just like how i always wonder how i got PCa in the first place. One day, hopefully like 40 years in the future, I will know. Until then, its all anecdotal.