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Optimal Duration of Hormone Therapy

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All good! And you are researching, which is good also. I have no idea regarding how much you know about how adt affects men and their spouses? So I will just give you some of my random thoughts, after 5 months. I thought I knew a lot, but there is so much to know. Here is an excellent Canadian website that will help a lot. I am in USA and I emailed them and they allowed me to join a zoom meeting that they do I think every other month. You may wish to try and join an educational meeting. If Canadian, you get the book for free, but you can find it on Amazon. Really good book. One thing you need to understand is that 12 months of any adt will be hard on sexual health. Penile atrophy is a real thing. A man normally has multiple erections while sleeping, and the purpose is to keep the penis working. That will highly likely stop happening while on adt. So you need a plan to mitigate that, and your husband needs to understand this sooner rather than later. Highly likely that your oncologist will not have a plan for this, so you need to do your homework.
https://www.lifeonadt.com/

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@oldgreenpaint Thank you so much. I always want to know more. ADT and radiation therapy are very new to us. Though I’ve spent 5 years researching, there are still more that I don’t know. I very appreciate that you inform me on all of this.