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Your level of exercise should help a lot with the fatigue some people feel with ADT. It almost inevitable that you will notice a belly when your stomach muscles weaken. I do a lot of situps and they seem to help, But I have always been thin and that helps too.
Continuously doing weight training can help slow down the muscle loss and may keep the muscles you have if you’re not on ADT for too long. The amount of walking you do along with the weight exercises will help a lot when it comes to your bones weakening.
Due to their different mechanisms of action. ADT which includes Orgovyx, Firmagon, Lupron, Eligard, Prostap, Camcevi, Lucrin, Zoladex, Trelstar, Pamorelin, and Decapeptyl can cause numerous side effects. Actually due to a lack of testosterone.
Hot flashes
Fatigue
Muscle deterioration
Bone weakening
Brain fog
Depression
Weight gain
Joint pain
Difficulty in breathing
Not all of these side effects occur to everyone on the drugs. Most of them are just things you have to be aware of and circumvent. I walk fast on a track twice a day, 1 mile at least, to help prevent bone weakening, fatigue and muscle deterioration. I also go to the gym three days a week (usually) and spend an hour with all different types of weight exercises. One thing that happens is people get a beer belly from the muscle deterioration, I do a lot of sit-ups to offset that.
Some people get depression but it is not common. It is easily treatable, according to people that have reported it on here and on Online Meetings I have participated in. If he has that problem Come back and ask for help, Or see a psychiatrist about doing something to relieve the depression.
Some people get no hot flashes at all. Others only have a few hot flashes and they are very minor. I had severe hot flashes for the first year on Lupron. As a hot flash was hitting I would feel a lot of fatigue. After a year, my oncologist prescribed a depo-provera shot every three months and it really stopped those hot flashes on Lupron. There are other hormones that can do this, speak to your doctor. If you have this problem, we can give you a list of drugs that can stop it. Ae doctor at a recent conference, put out a big list. I wear a Embrlabs.com Wave 2 device. It can reduce the hot flashes during the day and at night pretty much stops them completely. Megestrol has worked for some people. On Orgovyx I do have fewer hot flashes and they are not as severe, but I have been on ADT so long it may be a factor.
I know one person that says eating tofu every day really controlled his hot flashes, another person in this forum said the same thing. Tofu does have properties similar to endocrine hormones but a lot weaker.
According to a doctor that spoke to a recent webinar, many people on ADT, if they are staying on ADT for an extended period or have become castrate resistant should be taking bone straighteners. I took Fosamax for six years and I’m now on Zometa. That along with calcium and vitamin D taken daily helps keep your bones strong. Ask your doctor about this.
I have never gained any weight while on ADT. I get on the scale every morning and base what I eat on what I weigh. Skip lunch at times. Some people gain a lot of weight. The average is 5 pounds but some gain more and some gain none. Be aware that because you are on ADT you will find it very difficult to lose weight. That is one of the problems when you have a very little testosterone, you really have to work for it. Cutting out meals for weight loss often backfires by causing your metabolism to slow down and promoting fat storage as the body enters a survival-oriented "conservation mode". It leads to nutrient deficiencies, intense hunger causing overeating later, energy crashes, mental fatigue, and potential muscle loss.
Hopefully you have very few side effects from Orgovyx.
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Thank you for the feedback. Has anyone suggested Calcium citrate, Vitamin D3 and K2 supplements? Waiting to hear back from my RO on this. Keep up the great work. Best wishes to you!