Zytiga question

[Fight11]

I hope all of you are do as well as can be and better!! 🙏🙏❤️❤️ Also my husband has finally resumed the Zytiga yesterday after having Salmonella and a relapse of Salmonella. This has been going on for a month. Back on track praying we are. How long will it take to see a drop in the psa? I know he just started yesterday once again. Just curious. ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[SPEEDYX]

Like all treatment each individual is different some have quick results in a month or two...some have a PSA flare where it goes up for a few months as cancer cells die off...I for instance when I started Zytiga my PSA rose for 6 months from 22 to 39 and now it has come down for 7 months to 13...all good so far...pray for best results!!!

[j-o-h-n in reply to SPEEDYX]

way to go.....Moe

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 09/03/2020 7:38 PM DST

[Lettuce231]

Hello, I hope Zytiga works as well for your husband as it is doing for me. I was on other treatments before which didn't cut the mustard. Zytiga hit the cancer along with injections almost immediately, the PSA took a nose dive.

Just be prepared for the normal side effects, but over a period of time, they should lessen.

All the best to you both.

Phil

[Fight11 in reply to Lettuce231]

Phil are you castrates resistant? That seems to put a whole different spin on things

[Myhubby58 in reply to Fight11]

Yep, that’s so true myhubby58 is castrate resistant as well.he has stage 4 pc metesis,lymph nodes,spine,and pain on the left side of his back that has never went away since 2017..I feel so bad for him and all I can do is be here and love him..he is on second segment of cabotaxel chemotherapy every 3 weeks and now has a fungus in his mouth..but his scans shows that tumors are shrinking..Prayers please

[Walter_Gould]

I have been on Zytiga/ Prednisone/Lupron for 10 years. Everybody reacts differently to Zytiga. After robotic surgery, beam radiation and hormone suppressant therapy over four years, my PSA went from 35 to 5.5 to .5 to undetectable in four months and has stayed there for the nine years since. I hope it works for you as good as it has for me!

[toml77 in reply to Walter_Gould]

Walter, just curious, are you taking the recommended dosage? (1000 mg/day with 5 mg prednisone 2/day). My situation is similar to yours except my PSA only went to 4. I have been on Zytiga for 1 year. Didn't start until I went castrate resistant after 13 years of intermittent lupron/casodex.

I am impressed with your results.

Tom

[Fight11 in reply to toml77]

How long have you been castrate resistant?

[toml77 in reply to Fight11]

A little more than a year.

[Fight11 in reply to toml77]

Is the Zytiga working well?

[toml77 in reply to Fight11]

It dropped the PSA from 20 to 4 in the first 6 months. Now maintaining around 4. MO says that is good as long as it is not increasing. I have many mets, spine and ribs, but none causing any distress.

[Fight11 in reply to toml77]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Walter_Gould in reply to toml77]

Yes, 1,000mg with 5mg prednisone

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

Walter what trial are you on at MD Anderson? Heard they are amazing

[Walter_Gould in reply to toml77]

Yes, I take 1,000mg of Zytiga on an empty stomach the first thing when I get up every morning. I take it with 16 Oz. Of water and wait an hour before I eat.

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

Walter are you castrate resistant?

[Walter_Gould in reply to Fight11]

Yes

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

How long have you been on the Zytiga? Are you on Lupron as well

[Walter_Gould in reply to Fight11]

10 years on Zytiga and Lupron

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

What will they do now seem as though you have become castrate resistant. I’m confused how Is the Zytiga and Lupron working if your castrate resistant? What will they do?

[Walter_Gould in reply to Fight11]

I am in a clinical trial at MDA in Houston

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

What clinical trial may I ask!!! Will you still be taking the Zytiga and Lupron seen as though it isn’t working

[Walter_Gould in reply to Fight11]

Zytiga and Prednisone are working, my PSA is undetectable.

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Fight11 in reply to Walter_Gould]

Wow that’s amazing!!! How long have you been castrate resistant?

[Scootman]

I just started Zytiga a month ago so I do not know if it is working yet or not . I was told to give it about 2 to 3 months.

[j-o-h-n]

Hope is eternal.........

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 09/03/2020 7:40 PM DST

[CaseydelaTor]

🙏🙏🙏