Long term Zoladex - Zoladex

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Posted 25 Apr 2016 at 20:21

Hi ChrisW, fantastic news about your PSA level ( mine is 0.01, sorry John Surr33) and even better about coming off Zoladex.

Can you do us on here(and especially me) a big favour and let us know how long it takes to get back to something like normal after being on HT for so long. How soon do flushes stop or tearfulness stop and if you start to get energy and enthusiasm back. It will be very interesting and also when it comes to our turn to stop HT we will have some idea of what to expect.

Stay positive and best wishes to you, Chris/Woody

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Posted 25 Apr 2016 at 21:13

Now cjw congrats on such a good score again. And as ever I'm envious when someone is released from the sentence of Zoladex.

Having been granted extra year of HT, all I can say is you are very fortunate.

Now Mr Chris PB. My scores are just resting at the moment. They've decided that 12 months at 0.2 is fine. They're deciding which way to go and it had better be lower!! And as you know I have to wait until July to find out.

Take care all

John

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Posted 25 Apr 2016 at 23:29

Puffingbilly,
in general they say the side effects will take as long to completely disappear as the time you were actually taking them. Apart from that, speed at which the side effects wear off tends to be linked to how long they took to show themselves - e.g. if the side effects came on slowly then they will probably abate slowly and if they came on suddenly then they should disappear quite quickly. Some side effects turn out to be permanent, of course.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 02 May 2016 at 20:21

I was on Zoladex for 3 yrs got hot flushes, bodily hair loss and muscle loss, hot flushes diminished somewhat after about 12 months. After 3 yrs I was off Zoladex but it took about 18 months for the flushes to stop, bodily hair returned at about the same time. After 4 yrs off HT due to an rising PSA I returned to Zoladex but did not suffer hot flushes but lost badly hair and muscle, at this time I have been on the second round of HT for 5 yrs in total HT has been a 8 yr trip iwith a 4yr break.
The experience of HT varies from person to person some get almost all the SE,s others less of them, I did suffer the hidden effect of bone weakening for which I take vitamin D3 and calcium with regular Dexa bone scans.

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