Fatigue

Hi Paulalan sorry to hear of your situation.

I didn't have hormone therapy myself but I do know that there can be many different side effects associated with this treatment , tiredness/fatigue being one of them.

Try and do some excercise every day if possible this does help.

You could also talk with your cancer centre or GP for advice.

What is a 'rebore op', is this to do with the PC treatment?

Hopefully someone will post who has been thru HT

Regards

Steve

Hi Steve,

thanks for replying. The rebore is called a TURP. This is to widen the channel in my prostate to enable me to  wee properly and not so often. It’s about an hour operation and about three days in hospital. I gather it can take up to six weeks to get back to normal. They told me that the plan is to have twenty sessions of radiotherapy  and they will look to start it December or January. I haven’t seen an oncologist yet. They want to get op out of way first. I just hope I don’t carry on feeling so shattered, maybe it will improve after I stop the tablets on Tuesday, and just have the injections.

take care.

Paul

Hi Paulalan, fatigue is a listed side effect of HT. I found my body adjusted a bit over time  to the HT but sometimes there’s no escaping that feeling of exhaustion.

I walk, play golf and try to keep as active as possible but also try to build in rests between activities. Steve is absolutely correct that maintaining a good level of activity actually helps reduce the fatigue. 

The biggest problem I had and still have is poor sleep quality.

Others will reply but a chat with a specialist nurse on Macmillan or PCUK might help too.

This link might help https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information/treatments/hormone-therapy

Also still get hot flushes a couple of times a day but these are manageable.

I was on PROSTAP for 2 years three months but still suffer after having my last jab.

It takes time to leave the system.

All the best,