Re: PSA spreadsheet for tracking and plotting PSAs and calculating doubling times

[Guest guest]

> In the Files section under PSA Spreadsheet are an  Excel

> spreadsheet (PSA_trends. GLM.20081227. xls) and a PDF file to

> print an example of the spreadsheet (PSA_trends. GLM.20081227.

> pdf ).

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Clever stuff Jon, thanks.

You might want to get in touch with Steve Kramer in

alt.support.cancer.prostate.  He's been keeping spreadsheets for

years with PSA values and notes on all of the posters there who

report numbers.  You could probably provide him with some useful

tools and he could probably provide you with tons of data if

you're interested in validating what you've done or

experimenting with it.

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On a different topic, I notice that you took antibiotics twice

for prostatitis, with relatively small effect.  I was given

antibiotics for prostatitis and it did me zero good, just made

me vaguely nauseous for four weeks.  The prostatitis was still

there.  I've since learned that it is now thought that less than

half of the people suffering from prostatitis have bacterial

infections.

I've come to believe that antibiotics have problems.  They kill

a lot of useful bacteria in the body, including many bacteria

that compete with and hold down the populations of antibiotic

resistant bacteria in the body, leaving the field clear for such

pathogens to multiply. 

I wish that doctors would actually look for signs of a bacterial

infection, e.g., elevated white blood cell counts, elevated

temperature, or urine cultures, before indiscriminately

prescribing antibiotics.  But it's hard to get some of them to

do that.  There are a lot of doctors who don't understand that

antibiotics are a somewhat invasive treatment.

Alan