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Has anyone had diarrhea with radiation?
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Phil, thanks for the comments. I have felt so alone in my treatment because the people I knew who had received similar treatment had only minor side effects. I have not seen any studies that measure the total harm done by treatments like Lupron. There are the obvious side issues like mine but what about the bone, joint, heart, liver, and brain type damages? For many people does ADT cause more harm than benefit?
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@pesquallie Yes - for many it does and the issue is hotly debated even as we speak.
However, it is well documented that ADT does make a clinically significant change in outcomes for those of us with higher Gleason scores, higher Deciphers and various pathologies like cribriform, IDC or spread beyond the gland.
Look, nobody gets through cancer unscathed. We’ve all seen women in waiting rooms wearing kerchiefs over their bald heads, other patients looking like death warmed over, dragging their IV poles up and down the hallways.
Whatever cancer they have it’s probably worse than this; that doesn’t change the fact that you were hit especially hard by the side effects of ADT. But I think in the long run, you will look back - in total remission or possibly even cured and realize that it was all worth it. Best,
Phil