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Degarelix vs Relugolix?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 19 10:57am | Replies (6)

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I responded very badly to Prednisone when I was getting it to try to reduce the swelling in my spine post-surgery and relieve the pressure on the spinal cord -- I ended up with steroid-induced diabetes, and the hospital nurses had to give me regular insulin injections (the diabetes cleared up almost immediately after I stopped).

Most people here seem to tolerate steroids fine — I guess I'm an exception — but I still suggest that you talk to your medical team about the Prednisone as well as the ADT as a possible source of any side-effects you're experiencing. I don't know if that's why my oncologists recommended Apalutamide instead of Zytiga for me in 2021 (the -lutamides doen't require a steroid); the TITAN study was also just out, showing a huge improvement in delaying progression and overall survival in patients with mCSPC taking ADT+Apalutamide.

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Interesting to hear your problem with prednisone, it never bothered me. I tried to switch to dexamethasone because I read studies that showed that it worked better than prednisone with Zytiga, and would allow you to stay on Zytiga longer. Only Need to take .5mg compared to 5mg with Prednisone.

Turns out dexamethasone causes my heart to start putting out extra beats after taking it for a couple of days. Do enough of those and one can end up in afib. Kaiser put dexamethasone on the list of drugs. I am allergic to.

Strange drug interactions for both of us.