Lifting weights while on ADT: hitting a wall?

Posted by bluegill @bluegill, Jan 28 5:30pm

I'm 5 weeks into it (Eligard). This is my second rodeo (the first time I was on it for 3 years).

I've been doing intense weight lifting 3 days a week for several months now, and I thought maybe this would help me keep my energy up and keep the side efffects away. But today I've really noticed they're back.

Crap.

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1bikerchuck | @1bikerchuck | Apr 18 3:54pm

At what stage were you when you started this treatment?

tjv1156 | @tjv1156 | Apr 18 2:24pm

In reply to @jporter "I have an appointment with the radiation oncologist next week." + (show)

how'd it go?

heavyphil | @heavyphil | Apr 16 3:01pm

In reply to @tjv1156 "Did your surgical biopsy reveal that the cancer had spread outside your prostate? Mins showed it..." + (show)

No. The only indication was a “tiny” (my urologist’s words) break in the capsule. But margins, seminal vesicles and lymph glands were all negative.
Hopefully, the Orgovyx and SRT will help us both!
Phil

tjv1156 | @tjv1156 | Apr 16 12:42pm

In reply to @heavyphil "Almost 5 yrs to the day. PSA rise was very slow until final year when it..." + (show)

Did your surgical biopsy reveal that the cancer had spread outside your prostate? Mins showed it had escaped into the seminal vesicles. These are removed at surgery so I hoped he got it all. But...guess not.

heavyphil | @heavyphil | Apr 13 6:47am

In reply to @tjv1156 "I follow a WFPB diet so I have no concerns with diet." + (show)

Not necessarily true; many plants cause gas.

tjv1156 | @tjv1156 | Apr 12 8:36am

I follow a WFPB diet so I have no concerns with diet.

heavyphil | @heavyphil | Apr 12 6:47am

In reply to @tjv1156 "My PSA in 3 years went from undetectable to .05, then .06,then undetectable , then .06,..." + (show)

The only advice I would offer is to start the radiation diet now - about a month before treatment. See how your body reacts to it and take steps necessary to eliminate gas from your bowel, yet still have a bowel movement every day.
Everyone responds differently and in my case it was the most challenging aspect of the whole protocol.
Your RO team should have given you info on this by now. If you have questions just go to the search icon at the top of the page; you know how to do the rest!
Phil

tjv1156 | @tjv1156 | Apr 12 6:12am

My PSA in 3 years went from undetectable to .05, then .06,then undetectable , then .06, then .12.
At that point , figured there was cancer there , so I wanted to get started on radiation,but my team wouldn't do it until it reached .2. Then they could do a PSMA PET. Apparently below .2, the PSMA-PEt may not pick up any cancer. Alos, I think there is an issue with Medicare covering it.
Meanwhile I had a CT scan for another reason and they detected a suspicious spot on my rib.
That triggered a PSMA pet which showed no cancer. Then I had a PSA which jumped to .25. And that got me do Dr . Haseltine, and I started Orgovyx 3 weeks. Radiation starts 5/21.

heavyphil | @heavyphil | Apr 11 5:04pm

In reply to @tjv1156 "....and then you switched over to Sloan?" + (show)

No, then I switched urologists and found one closer to home on Long Island. He is affiliated with NYU and has been doing cystoscopes (bladder cancer) and PSA testing.
When the PSA hit .18 he referred me to a radiologist he works with but I decided on Sloan since they have an excellent reputation and it was no time to fool around.
However, I still see my NYU urologist; he’s operated on my bladder twice already and we’ve developed a urethral connection😉