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Muscle recovery time post 12 months ADT
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Yes, I also wonder if that person on ADT was exercising and adjusted food intake.
My husband actually lost some weigh and even gained some muscle after starting intensive training upon starting taking ADT 2 months ago.
And not only that - his blood work that came yesterday was BETTER than before ADT on all tests involved. His metabolic tests were always good (all in green (normal) range, but now came even better inclooding his kidney function (BUN) since he now makes sure to stay always hydrated. I was laughing and said that he is the only man that I found here that has positive effect of ADT lol
Joking to the side - ADT effects can be mitigated with proper diet and exercise, it is just that nobody ever took time to look into that or make any program for ADT patients which is really shame. Patients should be offered insurance paid PT sessions and paid consultations with nutritionist etc., and not just be told "do some resistance exercises" . HOW, WHERE, WHICH ONES , HOW MANY , WHAT EQUIPMENT , WHAT NUTRITION - those are all important factors for successfully and truly managing ADT side effects.
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@surftohealth88 At the hospital where I attend monthly prostate cancer support group meetings, they do offer those free services. (And at the VA center where I go, they offer them as well.)
(My wife told me the major side-effect of ADT that she saw with me was that I started watching too much Hallmark Channel.)
(I’m a gym rat so, when they said to ramp up my exercise regimen, I knew exactly what to do: focus on multi-joint exercises that utilize the largest muscle groups: squat, deadlift, bench press, row, overhead press, and lat pulldown exercises.)
Plus, there’s a wealth of information online on resistance-training exercise programs. Here are just a few that I’ve bookmarked:
> Drs. Scholz and Moyad talking about exercise and hormone therapy: https://m.youtube.com/watch
> A paper on The Benefits of Exercise During Hormone Therapy: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c68ac6e4b06d2e36a4b8c9/t/55cb7275e4b0d97ae7ff60af/1439396469154/The+Benefits+of+Exercise+During+Hormone+Therapy_Insights+August+2015_PCRI.pdf
> A study about the benefits of exercise to counteract the adverse effects of ADT: (They describe a good resistance-training program): https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fulltext/2023/04000/resistance_exercise_training_increases_muscle_mass.2.aspx
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Hard to imagine that he was doing any type of consistent resistance training. I have also lost a bit of weight since I started Orgovyx 34 days ago, I was concerned it was all muscle mass, but my wife reminded me how many fewer calories I am consuming every day, and how much more I am exercising. On Friday I'm having CMP, PSA and Testosterone blood work done, so I'll see how the ADT has affected my blood. I've gotten plenty of nutritional info from my cancer team, but zero real exercise guidance. This is something that I feel is glaringly lacking from the medical oncologists who prescribe ADT.
I had my consult yesterday with the Doctor who will be placing the SpaceOAR and fiducial markers next week, followed the next day by my sim. Great doctor and nurses, high volume with this procedure, been doing it for 10 years, explained the entire procedure in detail, with visual aids :-). I'm not looking forward to it, but will be happy to have it done and over with. I'm due to start 28 fractions of proton radiation 2 weeks later.