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Not sure of BCR details, but sorry to hear about your situation.

I had Casodex for all 3 years of my HT, plus Lupron. The usual side effects of HT exist for both, though apparently Casodex increases risk of gynecomastia more than Lupron does.

Hot flashes are annoying and tiresome. I'd usually get 2 or 3 a night that woke me up, often perspiring then too. Fatigue was a constant companion, and probably the interrupted sleep from hot flashes probably didn't help. After a couple years, it seemed there was more mental impact, primarily difficulty multi-tasking. To this day, I have some memory problems, particularly in a window from about 2 days to 14 days back. Same day is ok. Events during meetings, no problem. But a little bit further back becomes a problem. It's weird. Usually it happens due to trying to multitask, but some things I simply can't recall even with reminders. The memories simply aren't there to retrieve.

And yes, it seems we usually end up on HT at some point, but not everyone does. A guy at one of my cancer support groups is a G9, and is about 4 years out of his primary treatment. His PSA hovers around 0.5 +/-, and he hasn't been on any HT for all that time.

TA and 57 thanks for info still trying to get on right path I could see left hip glowing as i went through bone scan doc called next day no need for better scan just talked to sandy at Stanford had a free one lined up thanks for that tip TA uro did everthing over phone he said something he was sending vit.D and something else hope it was tamoxifen there are two people who do SBRT in Reno area hip is painful can't walk without pills all happened in 23 days thought it was arthritis Doctor Hardacre at Renown true beem trying to get name of other to run by here for feed back they have a VA onco. lined up for me don't know when i get to talk to him coasting in the dark will update when i run into something HAPPY SUPER BOWL------NEPOL-----