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ADT: How long until I can expect the hot flushes to kick in?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 15 1:14pm | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
@brianjarvis
I was on ADT for seven years when I stopped taking it because I figured my Testosterone would never come back and so did my oncologist. After seven months, my Testosterone hit 50 was going up 25% a month and my oncologist said I should go back on. I was 77.
It can come back a lot quicker, You just never know how long it will take.
I was on Lupron for the first six years and Orgovyx for about nine months before I stopped taking it.
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@jeffmarc These are things I’m still learning more and more about. It seems that length of time (and one’s age) on ADT not only risks T never coming back, but also of prostate cancer cells becoming hormone-resistant, of the prostate cancers finding an alternative food source, or even adapting to make their own T.
I had two 3-month injections of Eligard; T went as low as 3.0 ng/dL; 6 months after the 2nd injection, T was at 403 ng/dL and eventually returned to baseline.