Help With Treatment Decision

Hello, DonJ ----

Summertime is here ---- just a few lines to check back in with you, and see how you're faring.

Did you start some ADT injections, as you had discussed?

Any course of action on the radiation front, with the identified met that was discovered in your vertebra and lymph nodes?

You're under the protective "canopy" of the Mayo Clinic system, and I visit Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

I'm sure you feel that you are in good hands --- with the Mayo medical team focused on your case.

Here's hoping this finds you doing your best ~~~

CYCLONE ••• # Iowa State University

Just noticed your post Cyclone. Thanks for checking up on me. Halbert- you are right. The Eligard is hitting it hard!
My PSA came in at 0.3 at the end of June. I haven't had it checked again yet. I was scheduled to go to Mayo Clinic in Phoenix Sept 9th and have scans, radiation consult and meet with the oncologist but canceled that due to the difficulty in getting back there from the NW Seattle area. My wife's radiation oncologist at Overlake Cancer Center in Bellevue ordered my PSA when we were doing a follow-up about her throat cancer (all good). His thoughts were to wait until the PSA gets to 0.5 and then have an Axumin scan to see if the cancer could be spot radiated. He said at that time he would also refer me to an oncologist with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. So now I am waiting to decide when to get another PSA. I am on a 6 month shot of Eligard so my thinking is maybe wait until the end of the 6 months which is December to check again.
My other concern is that maybe I should be adding Zytiga or Taxotere to the Eligard. But I'm not sure I can handle the additional side effects. So I'm kind of in limbo right now. Not sure how to proceed. Thanks!