Until then I was all right, you see. But the trouble arose with the following test, which took place in 2007, when the PSA reading had doubled. So I waited for another six months, took another test, and it had doubled again, and that’s when I started to get a little bit anxious about it. So I asked the GP, and he said, Well, there’s still no problem about it. don’t worry, because the levels are very, very low, you se. He never told me exactly what the level was when I should start worrying medically, you see.

Yes, you see this level stayed down for all these years, six years, until June 2006 it was point three eight. In December two thousand and six it went to point five nine. In March it was five point eight, the following March. The following July it was five point six eight. So there’s not much difference. Then point eight two, then point eight five, so all of those four or five readings it had more or less, it had grown a little bit, but it had stayed down, and then in October 2008 it suddenly went from point eight five to one point four. So that was a big jump, you see, and then six months later it went from one point four to two point six. So you can see the climb, the steepness. December, six months later again, from two point six to three point seven. So I expected this last test, right, to increase by the same amount again, so I expected about five point two, five point four, something like that, you see, or even six, but it wasn’t. It was four point two. So I can’t make any sense of that other than to say I was relieved. Anywaynbsp;

It can be quite worrying to see that sort of trend and then to know that it’s not got that bad and it’s

Yeah, yeah. I was looking at the percentage difference in the climb rate, and it went, at one point, it was eighty-five per cent higher in six months, and that frightened me, see, and now, of course, it’s much better. So some people might argue that you’ve got this information and you frighten yourself to death, but I don’t look at it that way. I look at it from the point of view of it’s like looking at the fuel level on your car. You’re driving along, fuel level is going down and you think to yourself, I must get to a station before I run out of petrol altogethe. it’s that sort of attitude really that I’m adopting, and so I’m happy with four point two.

I still get up in the night, only about twice. Well, I don’t know whether it’s the PSA, whether it’s my prostate or not, because it’s always the same time. I think it’s a habit because about two o’clock in the morning I get up, go the loo, come back, and I get up again at about half past five, six o’clock. And I reckon it’s a habit. I don’t think it’s down to this, you see. It can change that sometimes, if I’ve been very physical in the garden or something like that and I’m really tired when I go to bed, I’ll sleep right through. So I don’t know. I don’t think there’s that much to worry about in that sense.

And when I told the consultant, I said, I’m still getting up two or three times in the nigh, he said, Well, that’s all righ, you know, it’s not a problem is it I said, Well, no, it’s just it disturbs your sleep a bit So he said, Well, it’s all right He said, Most people get to your ag, he said, When they get to your age they’re up in the night anywa , but he said, What about the day time I said, Well, I’ve no problem with the day tim.

I notice that it might be me. I don’t know because I notice things can affect me. If I drink tea, if I have a cup of tea, that immediately goes through me. Coffee is not so bad, that takes longer. Beer takes longer and wine takes longer, and I can drink milk all night long and it doesn’t make any difference, but tea, and I drink quite a bit of water. That was something they told me at the hospital, Drink lots of wate. And I do drink lots of water. And they also said it would be a good idea not to drink much water after dinner at night, you know, which I’ve have to do now, have your drink, whatever it is, and then don’t have anything else, see. And that’s pretty much what I do actually.