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Getting second lupron injection
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@guybe
I was never into exercise before ADT. After I started ADT, I didn’t exercise for the first five or six years. First, I started walking every day, At least a couple of miles, As fast as I could go.
Then I found out I couldn’t get off the floor without pulling myself up on something.That started me going to the gym 3 days a week. That enabled me to stand up without holding on.
I never did have fatigue or mood issues, so I didn’t need to do the exercises in order to reduce the those problems..
Everybody reacts differently to ADT. I also wasn’t getting informed about the benefits of exercise, Unless you participate in some prostate cancer groups, you don’t hear about the need to exercise.
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@jeffmarc Exercise won't get the attention it needs among the ADT "community" until MOs actively encourage it as a basic part of treatment, even to the extent of tracking their patients' physical activity. Prednisone, despite its known dangers, is prescribed along with abiraterone in order to promote some level of energy among ADT patients. And yes, it's necessary, no argument there. So why not give the same level of treatment emphasis to activity that is entirely beneficial, costs nothing, gets no argument from insurance companies, and supports the same results? Maybe MOs just have an easier time getting pills to be swallowed than weights to be lifted, and they don't want to cause resistance to the former by insisting on the latter.