Thanks Marie and Jim, My plan is to check out the NCT01875250 trial first thing in the morning to see if I'm eligible. Frankly, I don't understand the basis for the oncologist's survival estimate,...
Dave, Thanks for your post. It sounds like your pain is from mets. In my case I think it's mostly related to joints and muscles for the reasons I described earlier. Although it's tough at times, I...
Thanks Mel. In fact, ADT2 even before metastasis always made sense to me as a well-educated patient with aggressive locally advanced disease. I don't understand why my oncologists disagreed until the...
Mel, I'm learning the depths of my ignorance, although for clarity I should point out that some of us are being shot up with a different commercial version of leuprolide, Eligard, rather than Lupron...
Thanks Logoslidat. I'm going to try krill oil based on your suggestion if I can find a source. I think that chondroitin has been shown to promote growth of prostate cancer cells so I'm avoiding it....
Sorry for the confusion Compiler, You're right - Casodex is often delivered early at the start of ADT to inhibit flare induced by LHRH agonists like leuprolide but it's employed short term in this...
Break60 - thanks for your post, which arrived just before I sent the lengthier post above. It will help stimulate my brain by forcing me to educate myself about the drugs you described. It's clearly...
Thanks everybody for the unexpectedly rapid response. I'll respond to each post in the order that it arrived, but first a brief clarification of the situation. First, it's not clear whether my...
Gearlose and Cannuck77, Thanks for replying, and I apologize for the delayed response - I became sidetracked on a different thread that turned out not to be relevant and then forgot to look at this...
Thanks again David, I learned a lot from your two posts today in response to mine, including the information that I'm a pretty lucky guy all things considered. It sounds like things have been very...
Thanks David; your response (and your earlier posts to this thread) have been helpful, in part because they've convinced me that I'm not a freak of nature with the similar weird constellation of...
David, I'm new to this forum. I discovered this thread earlier today in a Google search for information about weight loss and muscle wasting and pain associated with prostate cancer. Although it's...
I'm new to this forum and hoping someone can give me some advice. I was diagnosed last spring with 14/14 positive (50 - 100% malignant) cores, Gleason 9 (4 + 5), PSA 34, loads of evidence (DRE, 3-T...