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I started out with severe bone pain from metastasis found throughout my spine and ribs. Doctors at first thought the pain was due to my Gall Bladder. I had emergency surgery to remove my Gall Bladder. I thought my pain was over. Nope. Pain continued. I had an MRI. It found bone metastases in spine, ribs, femurs, hips etc. PSA was 25 and 28. I recieved 10 radiation cycles to the spine and 5 cycles to the ribs. At the same time, I start on Casodex for a month, PSA dropped very fast. A month later I started Eligard, Nubeqa (Darolutamide) and Zometa infusions. The doctors immediately started me on chemotherapy docetaxel. I completed 10 cycles of chemotherapy. It was my decision to go beyond 6 cycles.
After 10 cycles of chemo my PSA dropped to 0.234. My PSA continued to drop to undetectable and has remained undetectable for almost 3 years now. I have my annual bone and CT scan June 3rd and June 6th along with my Eligard and Xgeva shots. I get Xgeva now because I became allergic to Zometa. I will also get my blood results including my PSA. I hate the anxiety of waiting on the PSA value.
Yes, I am *so* tired of all the confident ignorance in the media from journalists and social-media types who spent 5 minutes Google-ing "prostate cancer" and think they know all about it now. 😡