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Hip surgery while on ADT and meds?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 26 3:45pm | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
Yes and no. My surgeon is on vacation for 2 weeks and won't be back until the day of my surgery. (Refreshed from the beach, I hope)
I managed to talk to a human being in his office over the phone, and she said she'd "get back to me" on the question of my meds.
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@bluegill
I forgot to mention one interesting thing I ran into with the doctor that called about what drugs to stop.
The first doctor said I needed to stop Darolutamide And I told her I didn’t, That I had a previous surgery on my hip and I wasn’t required to stop it. My oncologist was away, so it was not possible to have her comment.
They then had another doctor call me who was an oncologist, who didn’t even know how to pronounce Darolutamide. It was obvious she didn’t know anything about prostate cancer and after I talked to her, I convinced her that I did not need to stop the drug.
The next day, my oncologist, while on break, Emailed in saying I did not need to stop it.
I know that my PSA rises very quickly if I don’t have the ARPI drug in me. I didn’t want to take that chance.
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@bluegill
The doctor that called me about medicine each time was not my surgeon. They seem to have a practice where a doctor that is more specialized in drug treatment calls.