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What are the risks and benefits of Intermittent ADT?
I have high risk G8 confined to prostate and just completed 36 radiation treatments and 5 months of ADT. Will soon get 6 month PSA...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 11 8:46pm
Who is a good candidate for Intermittent ADT?
Who is a good candidate to take a holiday from ORGOVYX until psa start rising and then go back to taking ORGOVYX again?Is it only...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 15, 2025
When to resume intermittent hormone therapy?
How do I know when I should re-start ADT? My urologist doesn't seem to be sure. Here's an interesting recent video on the subject, but...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 3, 2024
Intermittent Hormone Therapy (IHT): How is it working for you?
I thought it is a good idea to have separate thread on Intermittent Hormone Therapy(IHT), so we can all learn from other's experiences.Who in here...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 18, 2025
Anyone take a Treatment Holiday? Intermittent use of ADT (hormone Tx)
I wish there was more info. on 'drug holidays' or 'intermittent use of ADT', with or without concurrent or prior surgery or radiation; especially as...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 15, 2025
PSA Nadir main deciding factor when one can start on Intermittent ADT?
I have been on orgovyx from April 1st,2024(11months). I had SBRT 5 sessions started on April 8th and finished on April 18th.My PSA on October...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 11 9:26pm
Buzzing in rectum after radiation
Has anyone experienced intermittent buzzing in the rectum after completing radiation? About a week and a half after radiation I started experiencing buzzing in rectum....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 10, 2025
I want to learn more about ADT
I am an 83-year-old male who is in good health and had a radical prostatectomy on 9/22/2009. I had salvage radiation on 1/15/2012 and I'm...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Apr 20, 2024
Pain when urinating 18 months after radiation
I was 70 this week. Had Brachytherapy, EBRT 15 sessions, last session June 24, ADT for 6 months. Have severe pain when passing urine, had...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 25 2:19pm
Side effects adding XTANDI to ORGOVYX
Who is taking both Xtandi and Orgovyx and what are the side effects of adding Xtandi to Orgovyx. I am asking this question on behalf...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 13 3:21pm
Hot flashes worsening again after years of being tolerable
Hello, My father has received monthly Lupron injections for ten years and after the initial few years, the hot flashes became tolerable and extremely intermittent....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 12, 2025
Update from ucla2025
We had our doctor’s visit yesterday. With the PSA now at .04 he wants to continue with the Orgovyx and Nubeqa and recheck PSA in...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 24 2:16pm
Questions about Prostate Screening EpiSwitch (PSE) testing
Pse testing appears to be a tool to validate or debunk psa numbers. I had psa 18 Gleason 9 grade 5. Had surgery and psa...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 20, 2025
PSA Test: Pain in the Area of Blood Draw (weeks after)
Five weeks after my first PSA test (post-SBRT), I still feel a little pain for several seconds a few times a day, in the area...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 17, 2025
Masturbation post prostatectomy and radiation. Will it affect PSA?
Prostatectomy 12 years ago, and maintained non detectable PSA. recent PSA in 2024 rise rise to .16 and had 37 bouts of salvage radiation. PSA...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 25, 2025
Quandry on my chosen pathway
I was diagnosed with PC late Dec .2025 at Mayo, MN. 1 smaller lesion, PSMA shows no spread. I decided I would do radiation SBRT...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 3 11:32am
Healing process following a urinary sling and penile implant
(Non-Mayo Clinic surgery> Two weeks ago I had a urinary sling and penile implant inserted post three-year robotic prostatectomy. While my surgeon assures me all...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: 1 day ago
Prostate cancer with hematuria (blood in urine): How to make it stop?
I am a 75-year-old man. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in November 2021. I had the LDR brachy therapy in May 2022. The procedure...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 15, 2025
Anesthesia for a Prostate Biopsy
Given DRE, PSAs and MRI results to date which indicate possible prostate cancer, my next diagnostic is a prostate biopsy. Because I have intermittent AFib,...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Oct 5, 2025
Lupron and Medicare Part D
Hello Hopefully someone can steer me to an archived thread, or to some other resources. I'm 64 and 4 months old, so I'm starting to...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 18, 2024