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| Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | Eric is right about putting on the lean body mass, when you are ready to work on coming back. You can't do it without a good balance of hormones. My testosterone when through the basement a couple of years after treatment. I started wearing a patch to get the levels back to norm. I thought this really strange, as my family jewels were pretty far from my head and neck radiation. But your pituitary gland gets at least some scatter radiation with IMRT and really gets nuked with XMT that I had. It is the master and commander gland that controls all of your other ones� Eric you should get an 8 AM adrenal gland cortisol test as well.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. | | |
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