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Diagnosed with prostate cancer, took multiple samples mostly 5-5, risk factor was 100%. They are giving me ADT (Orgovyx, Abiraterone and Prednisone), and after 3 1/2 months of ADT, radiation for 8 weeks. They are talking another year of ADT but I’m not handling ADT well and I only want to agree to 1 year of ADT as most of the info I’ve seen is that they are generally moving away from extreme long term periods of ADT. I think a lot of my problems with ADT is they never gave any counciling on the real side effects and the counciling they gave was deceptive, they talked about hot flashes, weakness, feeling tired, some loss of libido etc (which I got but were at most only annoying) but then I got blind sided by, no you lose all libido most likely forever, your genitals will shrink to a third of their original size and that will be forever too and you will lose muscle mass so quickly that your blood will have so much debris that it may destroy your kidneys trying to filter it out! Not sure if what they are doing is the right path, the only thing I know for sure is I’m to get off ADT as fast as possible!

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@kharlan oh, also by the time I was diagnosed the cancer had metastasized to my lymph nodes.