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Testosterone Replacement Therapy after RALP

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 29 4:57am | Replies (25)

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@jeffmarc

The reason they tell you to wait a year before getting testosterone after surgery is that the cancer can come back. It took 3 1/2 years for me, but it did come back and if I had taken testosterone it would’ve come back sooner. Prostate cancer feeds on testosterone.

You are talking about your T level, but that is not the important thing. What was your Gleason score? What was your PSA before you had surgery? Knowing how aggressive your cancer was (Gleason) lets you know whether or not you want to take a chance of doing testosterone. If your Gleason score was above seven, you definitely don’t want to do it before or even after 1 year.

If you have a lot of fatigue because of the drugs, you are on get a lot more exercise, that can defeat the fatigue issues and make you feel a lot better.

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Testosterone is a prostate cancer fertilizer.

Gleason was a 3+4, nothing outside of the prostate, nothing in any of the lymph nodes, etc. PSA reached a max of 6.8 prior to surgery. Fatigue is only one of the several issues low T can cause.