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Question whether to add Abiraterone to treatment or not?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 29 11:15am | Replies (19)
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@sicernon3

Sounds very similar to my diagnosis. Gleason 9 and no metastasis. I had radiation for a month and have been on lupron and abiraterone for a year. So far, so good. PSA is maintaining at 0.0.

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stew80 | @stew80 | May 15 12:07pm

Thanks for responding. How are the Abi side effects for you?

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laccoameno5 | @laccoameno5 | May 15 12:26pm

You are so lucky. diagnosed 3/2019 PSA 43 Gleasons 7-9 RP 5/2019 38 lymph nodes removed, 8 with PC, all nerves too. RT then ADT and the horrors of Lupron begun, 2 sessions over 2 years, quit both due to horrible SE's. PSA 0.03 then started to rise again . Now Abiraterone only. Done with Lupron. Bad SE's with this similar to Lupron. How bad? Can maybe crawl to the toilet from bed. Nausea, hot flashes, very weak, dizzy spells, dry mouth at night, almost suffocating. sore all over. Major brain fog. Impossible to get more than 1 hour of sleep. I now understand how some just give up. Suicide while rare, does happen.
Lacco

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