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David I can understand your anguish I was in the same position four months into my HT. I simply rang my Health Centre and requested a telephone appointment with a GP. As it happened I didn't have to get insistent but I would have done if necessary. When I spoke to the GP she totally agreed with me that I should know the current PSA figure and issued a blood test form.Three months into my hormone treatment , I have had concerns about what is actually happening , allegedly my cancer is being shrunk due to lack of testosterone, but my oncology team do no blood tests to check anything
Trying to get into our doctors is a joke , so I found an online self test option and ordered one. Arrived today , I didn’t realise (or read properly) when ordering but it only says positive or negative , above or below 4
Test done , it’s a bit like a Covid test but using a blood prick sample , 10 mins later confirmed negative
Definitely put my head in a better place
£25 well spentannoying that its so hard to get done as part of my treatment
My main concern was that the cancer wasn’t reducing and if PSA isn’t below 30 I can’t start the RT trial
All good now
Moral of story is that it's your body and your illness so not up to the medics to deny you such things. If necessary do like I did to get my RT appointment dates, go and eye-ball them and be assertive but never rude.