THERE WAS NO RESPONSE TO AN UPDATE REMINDER IN 2016 SO THERE IS NO UPDATE.

Am still on Hormone treatment after a year. I go for my third 6-month shot on Aug 14, 2015. Am debating whether to take it or not?? Supposed to go 1 more year on this testosterone blocker called Eligard. They shoot you in the stomach and it stings for a while. It has "killed" my sex life and I have really put on weight. If I refuse the shot my testosterine, sex life and well being will return within 6 months but so might my cancer. What a dillema!

The radiation therapy lasted from Nov 2014 till Jan 2015. Now my pee just dribbles out in 2 minute intervals about 50 times a day and 3-4 times in the night. I have read my chances have now soared for diabetes, bone loss, stroke and heart disease due to the hormone treatments. They have turned this once proud man into a woman with menopausel "hot flashes", my stamina is gone. But I guess all is a success if I don't die of cancer. So what? You're gonna die of something anyway. Why is it Ok to die from the afore-mentioned ailments but not cancer? The Doctor told me I would die a "horrible" death! (Gleason 8 yikes) I guess he scared me into treatment. Now my love life sucks and my sweetheart is "deprived". I miss the intimacy of the relationship now all we can do is joke about the lack of sex. I have a feeling this will not end well. I have a great family, grand kids, dad of 87, a lot to live for yet I am just not enjoying life nearly as much since the treatments have started. I find my self eating more, drinking more, Arthritis has gotten worse and then there was my first gout attack last week in my foot.

I don't mean to be blaming this all on treatment but this is where it's left me. The Dr. said I might be dead in a year if I did nothing. The second opinion Dr. told me maybe 10, so there is a big descrepancy. Either way the quality of life is much lower but the prospect of a longer life with diabetes, stroke and heart failure are assured! Such is life and impending death.

Otis's e-mail address is: douglasrosenberger AT yahoo.com (replace "AT" with "@")

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