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Are my partner's Hormone therapy side effects affecting me?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 24 4:36pm | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
My husband is taking hormone therapy and since he started this for prostate cancer, I have been having terrible hot flashes. He left for a week to go visit his brother and while he was gone, it took a day or two, but I was finally free! Three days ago he came back and got his second shot and now I am miserable. I am going to move him into the guest room and I am not going to touch him and see if that helps! Any suggestions?
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@gehler7
It is physiologically impossible that your husband's hormone blockers can effect you just by being near him.
IF he was using some topical creams and patches that were hormone REPLACEMENT and you came in contact with them than yes , you might have some effect. But he is on BLOCKER for testosterone that is not in any contact with you. Besides, for females only drop in estrogen causes hot flashes.
You might have hot flashes due to high stress and yes, your husband's disease is causing you being stressed but removing poor guy to another room would not be fair since it not his ADT that is causing your hot flashes.
@gehler7 Is it that he is flushed and sweaty and you feel that? When my wife went thru menopause it was like sleeping next to a steam engine, so I diplomatically moved to the edge of the mattress…
That’s the only way you would experience someone’s else hot flashes…you cannot ‘catch’ them.
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@gehler7
What you have said is very confusing. Your husband got hormone therapy and you are getting hot flashes. There is no correlation between his treatment and your hot flashes.
I know, hundreds of men that have had hormone therapy and none have ever said anything about their wives having hot flashes as a result. I’ve been on it for nine years and my wife’s never had hot flashes.
Stress can bring on hot flashes quicker than just about anything. If you are at the age where menopause is common, the stress of him being around may be what is causing your hot flashes.
It is technically impossible for his hormone therapy to affect you directly and cause you to have hot flashes.