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Support for wives with the Orgovyx tornado: Needing an olive branch
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 22 2:08pm | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
I had every side effect on your list plus painful migraine headaches, soaking sweats, and bone pain. I had to stop ADT (Lupron) after 4 months and it took 5 months of severe pain for the side effects to start to subside. Lupron would have killed me if I had continued. Now I read articles saying that ADT may not be effective for some types of Prostate cancer and might make it worse. New AI studies underway may better define when and if ADT should be used. It will be too late for me but hopefully there will be new and better methods for ADT use in the future.
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@pesquallie It could have been that leuprolide ADTs (like Lupron, Eligard, Prostap, Camcevi, or Lucrin) would have those terrible side-effects for you, but other non-leuprolide ADTs (like Zoladex, Trelstar, Pamorelin, Decapeptyl, Firmagon, or Orgovyx), might have worked well for you.
Yes, it’s that way with many pharmaceuticals - sometimes it’s the active ingredient that causes problems; other times it’s the fillers. There’s no way to know except for trying others.
There is currently an AI tool to help determine if using ADT will be helpful (or not). As time goes on. Medicine continues to advance and provide more options.