Covid vaccines-temporary false high PSA levels - for 6 weeks

[womanofthehills]

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[MineralMan]

1. Not for me. I had my annual Medicare wellness visit three weeks

after my second Moderna dose. My PSA levels were just as low as they were the year before. I keep my eye on those numbers, because my father had prostate cancer. Actually, I compare all blood test levels from year to year, just to see if anything has changed. I have more time than my doctor does for that sort of thing.

[Dave in VA]

2. Me too!

Had mine done one month after second Moderna shot. Still nearly the same as 6 months prior.

[MineralMan]

3. That's the thing. That news report was sourced to

one urologist. Hardly a thoroughly scientific study. Correlation is not the same as causation, once again.

As a urologist, he's likely to see more patients with prostate issues, so his sample is skewed, I'd guess. If you have a hammer as your only tool, everything looks like a nail.

[womanofthehills]

4. Good for people to know so they don't worry if it happens to them

Similar to telling women to wait a few months after vaccine before getting mammograms.

[doc03]

5. Well I don't know if that has anything to do with it

but my PSA was high my last doctor visit in May. I got my second shot about a month before.

[Yonnie3]

6. My PSA was significantly lower 5 weeks after Moderna 2nd dose,

as compared to a year and a half ago. .39 vs. .76

Mine was elevated from cancer treatments in the late 90s and early 2000s.