ADT and SRT Journey Part 4

RobLee said...

Saipan Paradise said...
I had lunch with him and Gary once.

Me too... possibly the high point of 2018... and that was January as I recall.

Hoping to get together again sometime.

Hey, I had lunch with them in January too. Was that you I was feeding scraps to under the table? I thought it was a stray cat. The pastrami was great, wasn’t it?

Richard... Don't know about the depression feeling but i sure know about their ADT fog some days it's impossible to concentrate on things I should be doing around house biked with the gang last nite had to quit after 22 miles couldn't force myself to go any more which before I always could no matter the pain and suffering. It will be a year for me in October my wife keeps asking if I'm going to continue and I say yes and I get a kiss and big thank you! After 18 months might be different answer but for now can put up with this craph especially after you see what some of the other guys are going thru! I'm waiting for below zero weather to come. LOL. Well not really but cooler weather seems to help with the hot flashes

Larry

Larry, seeing your post about some of the newer guys about to start their ADT and or SRT journey reminded me that I need to post an update.

I took my last casodex pill this past Friday and my 7 month course of Lupron should hopefully begin to clear my system when I cross that finish line on oct 6th.

I have to say that I made it through SRT with minimal side effects and up until my last three month Lupron shot on July 6th I had no real ADT side effects either. But after that last shot the fatigue levels picked up to where my exercise (biking) routine did suffer. I also went back to my FAA job on July 30th which didn’t help with the fatigue either. I have learned to listen to my body and go slower than my normally high strung nature has me going when I start to feel the fatigue hit.

Mike

Skypilot56 said...
Prato I think you better trade in those shoes for some walking shoes gonna have to do a lot of walking to combat fatigue! LOL Hey wishing you the best as you join the deprivation team the rest of us are in the fog you might as well join us!

Thanks Larry, for the best wishes. Speaking of which...

I’ve been doing a lot of walking the last month or two, I try for 2-3 1/2 Miles a day 5 days a week, in hopes I can fend off some of the fatigue, and also lose some weight before starting Firmagon this week. Haven’t been too successful in the weight department. And the walking is becoming a problem, as my already arthritic, twice operated on, knee is getting considerable worse. I’m seeing an Orthopedist tomorrow, in hopes he can get me some relief with either cortisone shots, or Synvisc (which lubricates the joint).
Worst case I guess, I try the stationary bike that I haven’t used in years (I hate the fact that when you pedal, the handles also go back and forth.)

Dogdays, I had the Synvisc (different name, same chicken extract formula) about 15 years ago. It lasted me way more than the few years they say it lasts. My knee was pain;ess up until about two years ago.
I’m bone on bone

Nice result. Take an undetectable any way you can get it

Nice BobbyMac - zero is zero any way you can get it.

Rob

My three month post SRT PSA is <.0006; my T level is 3. A year ago it was 660.

Saipan Paradise said...
Congrats to both of you, BobbyMac and Gary! We’re on a low-number roll.

Gary, really 660? No wonder you were such a horny ******.

Ah, for the good ol' days, Richard.

May our PSA's stay low, our T levels soar, and whatever SE's we have subside

Congrats on the low numbers.

Tomorrow I’m officially a member of this group. Firmagon shot 12 hours from now as I post this.
Had dinner with the kids tonight and filled them in, they weren’t thrilled, but took it better than I expected.
So here we go.

Thanks Hogo, appreciate it

It's official. I got my first Firmagon shots this morning. Stomach already sore, they told me it will be worse tomorrow. I have to say, i was emotional. Sitting in the waiting room, at MSKCC, i actually thought of backing out, just getting up and walking out the door. But i knew better i guess. And i found MSKCC to be a very efficient, professionally run place, with good, kind people, but still, to me, very depressing just knowing why i was there. My mom was treated there for Breast Cancer, decades ago, that didnt end well, and my mother in law died there of the same disease. So it brought back a flood of memories, that i guess affected me.

Before the shots they took baseline PSA and Testosterone.

PSA - .08, right between the two tests of the last three weeks of .078 and .082, but different lab, so essentially unchanged.
Results cannot be interpreted as evidence of the presence or absence of malignant disease. Assay info: IEMA,Tosoh AIA. Results cannot be interpreted as evidence of the presence or absence of malignant disease.

Testosterone - 322, ref range 221 - 716.

I thought T would be higher, but go know. Doesn't matter now,

Cleaned out my desk yesterday, threw away most of the research i was holding onto re SRT/ADT Post RALP.
They didnt say anything about the next appointment, i guess I'll just have to call in a couple of weeks to set it up

After 8 months since ADT Lupron release my T is up to 54. I'm no longer castrate level! Whoop Whoop! At least it's on the rise.

My PSA also rose from<0.01 in Dec and now is 0.02.