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Going to the doc tomorrow to get my yearly finger check. Not as bad as the scope job I had a few years back. If it helps me add a few more years, I guess it is worth the trouble. stan
 
PSA blood test is more effectie as to check for prostate cancer. But the finger wae will check for enlargement. Just for fun ask the Doc when was the last time he had that finger calibrated.
I am coming up on my four year anniversary operation for prostate cancer. Still testing clean.
 
Good luck with that ,,, "...My great Uncle would be around 115,, lived to be 94 with a healthyprostate ,,I recall Him complaining to my Dad that the Doc wanted him to come Back everydam Yr !,, he told dad he was gonna ask the Doc if he was one of them Funny GUYS that gets his jollies from such Exams ...
 
(quoted from post at 23:25:17 12/14/10) Going to the doc tomorrow to get my yearly finger check. Not as bad as the scope job I had a few years back. If it helps me add a few more years, I guess it is worth the trouble. stan
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At least with the "scope job", they put you to sleep. :)
 
Have mine every year at our local annual free clinic, staffed by local doctors. Where else can youy get someone to stick their finger up your butt for nothing! Had a lady doctor do it two years ago, she told me this will be easy, I have small fingers. After she was done I told her it would have been better if you'd trimmed your fingernails. Better get checked, the consequences aren't good.
 
Buddy of mine had to get checked a while ago (we're still to young for that sorta thing as a rule) Had a goodlookin lady doc. Said he had to stop himself from laughing cause he got the notion that it'd be humorous if he were to let out a little moan...

Ben
 
The DRE digital rectal exam or finger test can miss the mark. I am a year out from an open radical prostetectomy. My cancer was very forward on the prostate and on the upper side. It never showed up with the DRE and got by the first biopsy 18 months earlier. My PSA was not that bad by the old standards but was slowly increasing. A newer test called the PCA3 checks for rna tracers in the urine and is very accurate at telling if cancer is there. While waiting for the surgery every doctor I saw insisted on doing the DRE. It got to a point that I would bend over and put my elbows on the table if a waiter in a white jacket walked by. I had an aggressive form of the cancer, but they caught it before it got outside of the prostate. Did not have to do Chemo or Radiation. I had the open surgery so that they could dig out all of the lymph nodes. They can't dig them out so well with the robotic methods and the cancer can come back in the lymph nodes after the prostrate is out. The key is to catch it as early as possible and have a good urologist keeping track of your system. Good luck with your test!
 
Just had my annual physical at the VA, and they just go by the PSA. Mine was same as last year, .4 on a normal range of 0 to 5. Also, unmedicated blood pressure normal and cholesterol 159. Not bad for a 76 year old geezer a few pounds overweight.
 
(quoted from post at 00:24:24 12/15/10) I wouldn't worry about it ,,,unless he has BOTH hands on your shoulder....LOL
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Had a doctor (or tech) at Fort Leonard Wood that had a rubber arm sewed to his sleeve with the hand in the pocket. You thought he just had a bad arm and didn't think about it. Every now and then when he'd do his little touch exam, if someone looked real tuff, he'd lay that other arm on thier back.
 
Last time I went in, Doc asked if I'd mind if an intern did it. I told him, Yeah, but you're so good at!" Most docs don't like to give 'em and better than we like havin' 'em.

Larry
 
Get a Lady Doc! fingers are much smaller, pretty much no discomfort. A friend who was in the reserves for many years told how they had a lady doc at the base for exams and all the guys would ask for her for that exam.
 
The digital exam is similar to an oil pressure idiot light. Better than nothing but by the time you get an indication, it's too late.
I pay out of pocket for the PSA test and will look into this PCA3 test asap.
 
I hear that they are not necessary anymore and that they pretty much do them as a gag to see if they can get away with it. I hear at the end of the month that the doctors that do that get together over a few beers to compare notes and have a few chuckles.

"I tell you fellas, I had this one guy, now hold onto your chair fellas because this one's going to have you laughing so hard that you'll cry yourselves out of your chairs, but I got my nurse to hide behind the curtain with a video camera as I gooped up all four fingers and my thumb for this one guy...".

Good luck Stan.

Mark
 
We had an old female flight surgeon who wore a great big diamond ring on her insertion finger. I think she did that as a joke. We asked her if she did hemorroids while she was at it. Fortunately, I never experienced her experienced phalange. For many years I drew a guy who would exclaim loudly: "And now! HA,HA,HA,HA,". And I would scream: "NO,NO,NO, NOT THAT AGAIN!!" We would both end up laughing. One time I walked out of his exam room to see about 5 or 6 patients with a look of horror on their faces. They had heard the whole episode.
 
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