Joint Pain~Increase

I’m now 6 months since my last Lupron treatment. T is still very low. What I have noticed is an increase in joint pain. It’s not in a consistent area, just all over. Every morning I feel like I’ve played an NFL game or something tougher. I do take Motrin and it seems to help a bit. Any others feeling the same?

Thanks for your comments. Baseball is coming!

sadly that is a known side effect. It should get better as the T recovers.

We're kind of hard to please sometimes. We have our prostates treated so we can keep on getting older and the birthdays keep on piling up. Success! But as we get old and creaky you'd think it would make us grateful -- we ought to think "You know, if it weren't for Dr. C I might not have lived long enough to have such worn out knees." But noooo.

My only actual, you know, helpful suggestion is to avoid prostate cancer tunnel-vision. Your ADT may or may not have contributed to your aches and pains but that doesn't mean your oncologist is the best doctor to treat them. What do your regular doctors say about your joint pain?

Oh, and someone mentioned "Motrin." That's the expensive branded version of ibuprofen. You can save money by buying the OTC generic instead. Pretty much all ibuprofin pills have the same amount of the same drug and the cheapest ones are the little red ones. But I like the blue caplets better... because they are prettier... I buy them at Costco in gross lots. They come in bottles the size of mayonnaise jars.

I woke of this morning wondering about my hand pain and lupron. A little pain in knees and feet too. I am 3 months out of a six month Lupron journey. It worked on helping to kill the cancer with my 1st 3 month PSA at .04 and my T-ToT up to 440. I have the feeling I will need to deal with this joint pain for a while. There are some hand exercises from the Mayo Clinic that help https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/arthritis/multimedia/arthritis/sls-20076952 Also I too will down a couple of ibuprofin in the middle of the night. The best thing to do with arthritis is keep moving. At night you can't move so it gets worse. As far as cancer treatment side effects I suppose it could be worse. I wish everyone good luck on this.

69 yrs., marathon runner, 44 3D-CRT/IMRT Radiation delivered via 3D-CRT in 1.8 Gy minimum dose fractions to a total of 79.2 Gy., 3.2.19 PSA .04 T.Tot 440, 10.5.18. PSA .012, 8.12.18, 1.42 June 18, 2018 (Lupron 5.21.18 & 8.15.18), 12.7 May 2018, 13.7 Jan. 2018, 2.1 May 2012. SpaceOar 9.6.18, testosterone <.7, 8.15.18, Tot Mayo 19 ng .17 testosterone Free 6.18.18, Gleason 3+4=7 involving 15% of the right apex and 15% of the right mid, 3+3=6 prostate cancer involving 5% of the left base. Pathology interpretations by John Hopkins, UNM Cancer, and SF Path 3+4=7 or 4+3=7 MD Anderson Proton Center w/o %. T3 MRI w/ contrast 1.8 lesion left side 5P, Neg. Bone Scan. Prolaris test 3.5 consistent with intermediate and a PTEN test negative. Father PC age 78 RT & ADT now 94 yrs.

Yea, Lupron does that!

I've been doing well, Blackjack.

That's the problem, in a way. When you start getting stuff done people notice and give you more stuff to do. I've been kinda busy with, you know, life and everything.

Could be worse, I guess.