Just to add to the discussion-- my husband was also a doctor. He had a psa test that was above normal and his internist wanted him to have a biopsy. He refused, calling the psa test the "patient...
Hi again, Phil, Just to reply-- my husband used the Ritalin for maybe a month, or a little more, and that was intermittently, not every day, until the side effects of the Xtandi began to fade. He was...
Hi Learning Quickly, My husband used Ritalin for the extreme fatigue caused by Xtandi. I forget the dosage, but he took a pill either once or twice a day. It did seem to help. The irony is that he...
Just to add another two cents-- my husband is also still on Lupron with the Xtandi. And the news for the day is that he says he is feeling better every day. The side effects continue to fade and so I...
Hi Everyone, Just want to chime in about the SEs on Xtandi. My husband has been on it for almost two months now. He also experienced the terrible fatigue, as well as loss of appetite and nausea. In...
Passages-- I hope your husband gets better soon. There is a lot of flu going around and, given our own adventures in the ER, they are sometimes not as helpful as they could be. So, please know that...
Thank all of you for your replies. I am beginning to think that Xtandi is such a new drug that no one is sure how it works. For now, my husband, who got his psa number over the phone, tells me that...
Hi, My husband has been on Xtandi for almost two months. The side effects for him have been fatigue and nausea with lack of appetite. He dealt with the fatigue by taking Ritalin and with the nausea...
Hello Everyone, It's been a while since I posted, but it's been a real roller coaster ride. In 2010, my husband was diagnosed with Gleason 10 metastasized to his bones. His psa at the time was about...
Dear Mary, I am pretty quiet on this board, but feel so much less alone for being here. May you know that you and Willie are in my thoughts and in my prayers. Carol...
Hi Missy, I, too, have been lurking here off and on and am enormously grateful for the information and wisdom I have found here. My husband began Zytiga about two weeks ago. He had undergone spot...
Hello, I wrote a post about my husband several months ago and all of you who kindly answered were so helpful and full of so much support. You all have a great deal of knowledge and have been through...
Dear Mary and Willie, Please know that I am sending all good thoughts and energy and prayer your way....
Dear Mary, Knowing only too well what it is like to be in such a situation, please know that I am crossing fingers and toes for you and sending lots of good energy your way....
Hello again, everyone, and thank you so much for your responses to my latest post. The first thing I did was take your suggestion, rcroller, and read Todd's story. It is truly amazing and...
First, I want to thank everyone again who responded to my first post. I guess about a month has gone by and the news this time is somewhat better. After the urologist added Casodex to the Firmagon...
Thank you so much for posting this story, Bob. I will be keeping it close and passing it on. Bless you. Liefde...
Thank you so much, leeanglo, for the information about Zometa. My husband should be getting it next week and, hopefully, it will make him just feel generally better. And please know that I send my...
How good to know that there is someone who understands what it is like when the doctor becomes the patient and when he is the closest person in the world to you. Thanks DD and also for David's...
Thank you so much Ohio State and Doting Daughter, both for the new contact to explore and for the good thoughts and wishes, and simply for being there. Being a physician, my partner is both depressed...
Well, here I am with thanks to all of you who responded to my first post. Another thought has occurred to me, though maybe it is grasping at straws, but here it goes-- given that my partner had such...
Thank you so much, robertcool. We saw that oncologist at UH once and I don't really know what to think of him (and will know more when we see him at the end of the month) but I knew I had to get some...
Thank you so much, Medved! Liefde...
Thank you all so much for replying and for giving some hope that was all taken away by the urologist. To answer your question, Medved, we are in the Cleveland, Ohio, area and will be seeing Dr....
Hello, I am new to this forum and to online forums in general, but having read some of the posts here, I decided that this was a place that might provide some help and support. My beloved partner was...