Bicalutamide Side effects 50mg

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Posted 02 Sep 2020 at 17:24

Knodel,

I do an occasional presentation on how the various different hormone therapy drugs work inside your body.

PCUK recorded one of these and it is available to watch on-demand if you're interested:
How Hormone Therapy Drugs Work

Edited by member 02 Sep 2020 at 17:25 | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 02 Sep 2020 at 18:56

I was diagnosed in Dec 2016 started on Bical for a couple of weeks or so then on to Decap injections for 2 years. Had radiotherapy at the same time at the front end of my treatment (no pun intended).

Jan 2019 I was taken off all meds and just monitored but found that some cells had migrated to my T5 vertebrae and restarted on Bical in May 2020. I asked to stay on this because there was apparently little loss of sexual function as appeased to be being on the injections.

My big issue is at this time the Bical seems to be interfering with the Levothyroxine I am taking (which is a bugger of a drug) and it is causing me to have slight anxiety feelings and also some feelings or trepidation which I have never had before when on the injections.

Has anyone else had something similar and if so how long does it last and does it go away or will I have to change to the Decap injections to get rid of these feelings? I just want to be me again like I was 4 or 5 months ago

User

Posted 02 Sep 2020 at 23:37

The bigger issue may be that with bone mets, bicalutimide may only be effective for a short time before you have to change to full testosterone blockade anyway so you are sort of delaying the inevitable.

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

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Posted 03 Sep 2020 at 08:37

I am probably moving to the Injections when I have my catch up on 15th.

I have had these strange feelings before when I was sort of overdosed on Levothyroxine, this was before my cancer was diagnosed, so I am pretty sure the feelings are to do with that drug but it is not something I have seen in any documents/instruction leaflets, so just wondered if anyone else had experienced it.

Levo is a bugger to get out of your system as the half life is so long.

Thanks for your words. I

should have known a couple of weeks ago what my PSA was doing recently but my Dr surgery lost the bloods they took or at least they didn't get to Pathology at the hospital.

I have another one booked for next week ready for my 15th appointment so I'll know more then

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