Well, somewhat, here .
My last hit of Eligard was in Oct of 2014. My last hot flash was yesterday, my last anxiety attack the day before, after my most recent breakfast nausea attack. My testosterone is still very low - around 200, so I got zip for libido. Read recently that they raised that bottom T number to 350. Goes well with my ED from non - nerve sparing surgery.
Radiation side effects peak at about
3 years after the treatment ends. My radiation was finished Aug 1, 2013, side effects got pretty bad in August and September just past (2016), let off some since the second week of November, but the radiation craps and bowel issues are still very much with me today, 'roids are still bleeding and I can still feel those gas blisters in my colon.
Moobs shrunk a little as muscle tone improves a bit, lost 8 of the 16 pounds I gained from the Luprolides. Some of the weight gain is due to the kidneys no longer getting guidance from the pituitary on how much water to leave in your blood. I have had to talk to myself about
accepting a new self image while remaining optimistic about
the future.
My doc told me that the longer you are on the Luprolides the slower your pituitary is to recover and that the hormone levels usually don't come back to where they were before. "It can take years for the function to return to normal. Sometimes it never does." Cost/benefit. The equation always balances.
We know the stuff we need to do in order to maximize our good health. Doing that stuff as best I can at least reassures me that I am giving this the old college try.
