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@heavyphil the only treatment suggested is Lupron. After 7+ years of ADT I’ve experienced chest pains, compression fracture and now all teeth are loose and surgery to extract next week. Evidently I do not express PSMA protein since it doesn’t show up on scan. I do not want to go back to ADT if there is another treatment available. I should hear back from M. D. Anderson any day now on clinical trials. I chose to stop ADT in late August and early September PSA was .1 now it’s approaching 5.0. It’s moving fast so if MDA does take me I want to be treatment free so they can start from scratch. The issue now is getting Humana and MDA to agree to treat me. Thank you for responding

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heavyphil | @heavyphil | Feb 4 10:56am

@acoope hey brother, no problem…fingers crossed for you🤞🤞
Phil

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Jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | Feb 4 12:42pm

@acoope
You should at least discuss with your doctor about using estradiol Instead of ADT.

It works just as well in reducing the testosterone, but has many fewer side effects. It does not affect bone density like ADT. The patch trials showed how effective it was.

I’ve never heard of anybody having loose teeth as a result of ADT. I wonder if it could be due to something else.

If you go to ancan.org And search for estrogen, you can find two different videos about using estradiol in place of ADT.

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