Prostate Cancer HT symptoms

Hello all, great site, sure it will be of great help to me. Just finished 8.5 weeks of radiation and did quite well. Now in my 5th month of Hormone Therapy with a drug called Trelstar. My oncologist says I'll be taking it for approx. 2.5 years. Says it's a Lupron equivalent. The side effects however are driving me nuts...Hot flashes, nausea, dizziness, and terrible body aches especially at nite. Would appreciate hearing from any one out there that has experience with HT symptoms similar to mine. Hoping the symptoms will smooth out over time, but I've learned not to expect too much with this condition. Thanks very much, live strong, fight the fight!

Thanx so much for your reply TC-LasVegas Tony. I'll meet with my oncologist again next month and ask about switching from Trelstar to Lupron LHRH. My concern about Lupron was always about the weight gain and breast tissue production and I was pleased to see these symptoms were not present with Trelstar. I was interested to note that you underwent prostatectomy with a 19 PSA and stage III. I had a 14 PSA and a Gleason of 8 and my doctors recommended no surgery, with 41 radiation treatments just completed last week and approx 2.5 yrs of HT. They all agreed that surgery might not "get it all" and we'd have to radiate anyway. It is interesting how many different ways PCa can be treated, I must say however that I do wonder how different I'd be doing if I had undergone surgery. Won't know my post radiation PSA till December when I do blood work. I guess I'm just new at this but I'll tell ya the anxiety is monstrous. I still can't figure out how to participate in chats here at HealingWell but I'd sure like to. Thanks again for your help Tony, Fight the fight, Mark

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