Testosterone Therapy

Seeing as how testosterone feeds the cancer I would be very concerned. Sounds like throwing gas on embers. You won't know for a long time if all the PCa is gone. The standard for cure is PSA <0.20 at the 10 year mark.

In addition to the surgeon you might ask an oncologist. There is a Patient to Physician site somewhere with a renowned oncologist that you can question. Also send emails to all the guys that have written the books we all read and hawk like Meyers, Sturm, Scholz, et al. Someone is bound to answer. John T could probably put his hands on some info.

There are a lot of other ways to combat your symptoms. I have wondered throughout my journey what the PCa incidence will be 20 years from now with all the attention paid to Low T and the selling of drugs to raise it.

In my case I am on HT so I hope my T is low so we can starve the dickens out of my cancer. In response, I have greatly adjusted my diet and exercise and have solved the weight problem as I have lost 15 pounds in the last 6 months. As for sluggisness, I told my sister that I am just as lethargic as I was before HT and my wife chimed in wondering how one could tell whether I had slowed down! As for the libido....just like Avis....we try harder.

Check out the website Harvard Prostate Knowledge .org.......Testosterone Suplementation after Prostate Cancer. One doc say it may be OK for some men another doc says we don't know, why risk it until we know more. When i googled there were many hits on the subject.

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Hey Benj,

I was on TRT for years before I had cancer due to a congenital issue. After RRP my uro took me completely off because he was afraid that it would increase the risk of recurrence.

After a month I was a basket case. Total depression and fatigue to the point that all I could do was stare at the wall. I locked up my guns for fear of using one on myself. My primary doc got me and apptmnt with another uro that was of a different mind about TRT after PCa treatment. He put me back on T shots and in a week I was back and have been OK since. All with continuing zero PSAs.

Now every man is different so I am not pushing TRT but given the choice I would do it again in an instant. There comes a point where the quality of life gets so low that dying from cancer or from a gun shot seem like equally likely to happen.

At some point we all have to decide how much quality we are willing to give up in order to feel better about our recurrence chances.

One thing about cancer, it WILL change your life.

Good luck,

Jim

PS There are others that hang out here sometimes.  Pete if you are listening, chip in.

Benj I am using test in cream;my surgery was more than five years ago.

my doc do not like to use t-horm,the only reason he prescribed is becouse my surgery was five years ago with two years he will never put his patients on t-hom

Benj,

If you are diagnised as being hypogonadal, nesw flash...you are already lacking functioning hormone production. T is not addicting. It is something your body needs because it isn't making enough (or any) of its own. The body's negative feedback loop will not prompt production of testosterone as long as it isn't triggered to do so.