Living with Advanced Prostate Cancer

Hi,  I am a 68 year old male who had 6 sessions of chemotherapy and 37 sessions of radiotherapy - last session was in August 2023.  Getting regular PSA tests.  My last test was 0.02.  However, I am always tired and have no strength or flexibility.  Tried mobility exercises and gentle yoga.  I can put up with aching muscles but my hip bones are sore and not showing any sign of improvement.  With bone pain and always feeling extremely fatigued I am concerned that my cancer has returned.  GP refuses to do anything as PSA has not increased.  Am I worrying unnecessarily.

  • Hi Teignager,

    welcome, you don't say if you are on hormones, I'm on Abiraterone and it dries out the joints, exasperbates my arthiritis. Keeps choosing a different joint, currently playing havoc with my feet. I changed brand and had inprovements.

    As regards tiredness, keep moving......I'm working my way through it and not getting enough sleep, normal symptoms of the treatment.

    Justin.

  • A uro-oncologist at whichever hospital provided your treatment(s), or a clinical nurse specialist may be able to give you more helpful and informed advice than your GP. Nothing against GPs, but they aren't specialists. A PSA of 0.02 (and stable around that value when it is re-checked at whatever interval you have been advised) sounds quite encouraging. The symptoms you report sound more like side effects of the treatments than a return of the disease itself.