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Side effects three days post prostate radiation ?

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#thitch
From what I was told by my urologist and R/Os what you posted and experiencing were what my R/Os gave me for side affects of hormone treatments. On MCC I try not to assume something or try to give medical guidance as I am not a medical professional and certainly don't have the training or experience to ever try to.

From all the things I read about homone treatments it sounded like is echoed what my R/Os had given me and what other posters who had hormone treatments posted. I was originally going to have hormone treatments as my original diagnosis was intermediate risks. My R/Os at Mayo and again at UFHPTI went over in depth what to expect for side affects of my radiation and hormone treatments.

My R/Os recommended Decipher test before final treatments began. The Decipher came back low risk notthe original itermediate risk from biopsies. This changed my treatments to just radiation not hormones.

The radiation damage to your prostate, surrounding tissues, organs, etc. side affects will get worse and worse as your treatments go on. This comes from my own expeierence and what my R/Os and PCP stated would occur as your prostate and body react to radiation damage. When you mentioned your side affects got worse at end this would echo what my R/Os said about accumulating as more and more damage was done.

Fatique was given to me as a side affect and did come as my treatments continued. The side affects of increase urnination and voiding were worse at end of radiation treatments but I expected that as the radiation damage is cumulative as you have more and more.

You have a better attitude toward your doctors than I would have had. They should have gone over the side affects that very common with your radiation and hormone treatments. Especially the hormone treatments as they are from whay my R/Os explain to me and from what other posters have posted are much worse than side affects of radiation.

But again we are all different. What will happen to one poster will not happen to anohter. One thing though you will read that as time passes the side affects will lesson more and more.
Good luck!!

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Replies to "#thitch From what I was told by my urologist and R/Os what you posted and experiencing..."

I agree, they should go over the possible side effects but they never want to SUGGEST that you may feel that way.

the side effects of the hormone shots lessen?

Mine went over them but didn't do a thing about reported side effects. Took me blowing up on the table twice in one Rad session and refusing to get back on the table until they gave me medication to finally get medication. I will do one follow up and dump him.