Thigh pains
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Stress is a good friend of the cancer
BertB
Most probably your symptoms are a cause from the hormonal treatment. Weakness and soreness are typical side effects of HT, particularly from the LHRH agonist Lupron. You may as well experience muscle mass loss and hot flashes.
The best way to counter these symptoms is to engage in a program of physical exercises. You could try a gym or simply do daily energetic walks.
Some guys report soreness caused from the positioning in the IMRT stretcher too. This could be due to unnoticed stress. One week of radiation is too low a dosage for causing any trouble.
Gleason score 9 is of high risk cases and the low PSA is a typical “affair” of these class of patients. PCa likes to metastasize to the bone and that would induce pain, however, I tend to agree with your doctors’ comment that cancer may not be the problem for negative bone scan. Spots should clearly be seen in image studies, in a similar advanced case.
Do not be worried. Stress will be the best “friend” of the bandit. Do not lose “ground”. Confront it with all your strengths.
Wishing you a continuous successful treatment.
Welcome to the board.
VGama0 -
Don't Stress, Don't Stress, Don't StressVascodaGama said:Stress is a good friend of the cancer
BertB
Most probably your symptoms are a cause from the hormonal treatment. Weakness and soreness are typical side effects of HT, particularly from the LHRH agonist Lupron. You may as well experience muscle mass loss and hot flashes.
The best way to counter these symptoms is to engage in a program of physical exercises. You could try a gym or simply do daily energetic walks.
Some guys report soreness caused from the positioning in the IMRT stretcher too. This could be due to unnoticed stress. One week of radiation is too low a dosage for causing any trouble.
Gleason score 9 is of high risk cases and the low PSA is a typical “affair” of these class of patients. PCa likes to metastasize to the bone and that would induce pain, however, I tend to agree with your doctors’ comment that cancer may not be the problem for negative bone scan. Spots should clearly be seen in image studies, in a similar advanced case.
Do not be worried. Stress will be the best “friend” of the bandit. Do not lose “ground”. Confront it with all your strengths.
Wishing you a continuous successful treatment.
Welcome to the board.
VGama
Thank you Sir. I guess I can be assured that the pains I’m experiencing are not cancer related. Several other people, along with my Doctors, tell be the same thing. I originally thought it was stress related but hoped that the pain would go away after convincing myself that it is. The pain is real and now 24-7. I guess it could be the hormonal treatment like you mentioned but the pain actually started before that. I really try not to stress about this but it’s hard not to with a Gleason 9 staring me in the face every day. Thanks again you are helping so many people deal with this bandit.0 -
You are 60 I am 62; RelaxBERTB said:Don't Stress, Don't Stress, Don't Stress
Thank you Sir. I guess I can be assured that the pains I’m experiencing are not cancer related. Several other people, along with my Doctors, tell be the same thing. I originally thought it was stress related but hoped that the pain would go away after convincing myself that it is. The pain is real and now 24-7. I guess it could be the hormonal treatment like you mentioned but the pain actually started before that. I really try not to stress about this but it’s hard not to with a Gleason 9 staring me in the face every day. Thanks again you are helping so many people deal with this bandit.
BertB
You will do well too. Gleason 9 is just a classification; it is not a death threat.
IMRT plus HT will give a blow to the bandit.
If pain is unbearable, I would suggest you to request from your doctor some sort of medicine for pain relief. Do not go over-the-counter by yourself because some medicines react/interact with the treatment.
Hope for the best.
VGama0
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