Joint Pain

This is a common problem. I’ve had it for quite a while since I’ve been on ADT for eight years. I take 600 mg of gabapentin three times a day and it no longer bothers me.

You might want to try it, you may not need as high of a dose. Talk to your doctor and see what they think.

yep..ADT isnt for sissies, is it !

Yes, the radiation does not cause sore joints so finishing that treatment will not bring any relief. Since you are on duplex therapy, you probably have many months before the ADT ends.

In addition to what everyone else wrote, if you are fatigued because of medical treatment and become less active, your joint pain may increase because you're not moving the synovial fluid around to lubricate them.

And then because your joints hurt, you move even less, and then they hurt more, and so on.

For joints, motion is lotion.

"Once I get moving it's better."

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

@xahnegrey40 - 🤣🤣🤣

I have the same symptoms but not until years of my radiation sessions had ended. Maybe mine is something else working but I know I don’t sleep well because of it.

I experienced sometimes intermittent and often very severe muscle and joint pain after 3 or 4 months on Orgovyx. The pain would affect different muscles and joints although my more or less painful hip and the front of my thigh were most often affected. The oncologist who was supervising my ADT claimed all this had nothing to do with the drug. A local doc prescribed various exercises. After a while the pains subsided somewhat. I attributed this to the exercise.

When I started a more intense resistance training program at the local YMCA, three times a week for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, all the pains disappeared.

I think the pains were due to the drug. The fact they could be so severe yet moved to different sites and completely disappeared seemed relevant. Exercise oncologists also tend to agree that ADT side effects can be countered with regular resistance exercise.

@climateguy yes they were from the orgovyx. exercise helps but the lack of testostrone causes all kinds of body aches, sleep problems, fatigue hot flashes...but on each person the combo of side effects hit a bit different..but make no mistkae, they are queued up and ready to take their turn, once you start the ADT regimen

@jeffmarc Jeff, is this the dose at which you starting getting relief? I have tried Gabapentin in the past, but whatever dose was prescribed did nothing for me.