Raised PSA result worry.

[seppuku]

Big sigh of relief!

Hard to pin point what caused the big spike and chances are it was from prostate inflammation/irritation combined with the pre-test conditions (no ejaculation for 48hrs before this test/kept off the assault bike).

If anything highly doubtful lowering your weekly dose of T and bringing down your. trough FT played any role here.

You are already approaching a few months in on the lower dose so it would be sensible to wait until you get labs to see where your trough TT and more importantly trough FT let let alone give your body enough time to settle in and adapt to your new set-point as in give the new protocol 12 weeks to truly assess whether you still feel great overall on the lower. weekly dose.

If things do not improve then you can easily go back to your old protocol.

Thanks @madman Yes, it's a bit of a mystery. I wish i hadn't lowered my dose now and just done everything else i did, but i wanted to avoid the 'what ifs' had this result come back high again. I watched a video by a urologist who was of the opinion that things like testosterone level, ejaculating before a test, riding a bike etc etc only affect psa results by a small amount and that prostatitis was more likely to cause big spikes. I guess another factor could have been lab error - i took an 'Advanced TRT' test through Medichecks last year, and total t, free t, e2 came back half what i was expecting. I made the mistake of publicly slating the online supplier i use on another forum for selling me underdosed testosterone. They obviously weren't too happy i'd done that, and offered to pay for a retest. I actually contacted Medichecks after spotting one of the liver tests had got no result at all, and they sent me a free retest which i took a week later - all came back as i'd originally expected. So sometimes these labs do make mistakes i guess. Anyhow, after 5 weeks of stressing over thid, today i'm relieved!