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Anyone here after ADT undergone TRT

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 13 6:16pm | Replies (21)

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One reason to wait a year is that once you start using TRT your body won't make it naturally, or will have a more difficult time making it naturally. I'm in that position now--it's been a year since six months of Orgovyx but my T has not recovered. The medical oncologist told me he's fine with me supplementing T at this point if I choose but my radiation oncologist advised against it so I have to decide. It's kind of a rock and a hard place--with hypogonadism I feel crappy and my bones are going to hell but I'm also terrified that starting T might reignite the cancer.

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I was in the same position after a pause in eligard. For over a year my T levels and PSA stayed at zero, but I felt like crap. I was also anemic . I had TRT after that, and my serum T levels hit 1000! So I gradually reduced my T injections to the smallest increment I could see on the syringe, .01 cc. And my T levels dropped to 70, my blood values stayed in range, and my PSA. Stayed 0. That lasted another year til my PSA began to rise.

It seems once eligard turns T production off, in me the natural T production never returned.