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Hot flashes more than a year after ending treatment

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@truly520 I can tell you that when I stopped ADT after 17 months on it, I felt much worse (body, joint and muscle aches) for about 3 months until an endocrinologist used an injection ("stim test") to get my adrenal glands to produce cortisol at the right levels again. That really helped. Discovering that my B12 was low may have also helped. My aches subsided within the next weeks/month. I guess I'm just pointing out that ADT causes all sorts of other delicate systems in your body to adjust and it takes time or sometimes intervention to get things to be working somewhat normally again as I understand it.

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@stuartmpls that is really interesting. How did you decide to see an endocrinologist?
I will suggest that my spouse have his B12 level tested.