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[Mollygrace666]

Just had my seventh dose of Docetaxel.....fatigue is getting worse each treatment.....lost all my body hair and a great white beard which was my pride and joy at 53.....bone pain and chest pain.....and my taste buds go wonky for about a week....my fingernails look like a Klingon's forehead......could be worse.....PSA is lowering... chemo began after being on Zytiga for a year....PSA went from 78 to 3.4.......then it stopped working....

[Tall_Allen]

They should make a cold cap for chins to preserve beards.

[Mollygrace666 in reply to Tall_Allen]

nothing there to preserve now

[Tubbo]

Have you done a genetic test?

[Mollygrace666 in reply to Tubbo]

what are the advantages to that??........for my family??

[dhccpa]

How's your general health (before doing chemo)? Any heart, lung, diabetes or blood pressure issues? Weight? Some have said that can affect impact. I may have it this year.

[Mollygrace666 in reply to dhccpa]

no I had a physical job , had lost 120 lbs , cut way down on my drinking , I was doing well

[dhccpa in reply to Mollygrace666]

Thanks, people seem to have wildly varying responses, some with awful side effects and others with almost none. Not sure why.

[j-o-h-n in reply to Mollygrace666]

You lost 120lbs? Holy Shit...... must have been some heavy beard.....

P. S. please post more of your bio on your home page. It's voluntary, Thank you.

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 01/28/2021 7:13 PM EST

[MateoBeach]

Enjoy the smooth hairless and odorless newborn-baby look with pride and for more time for being alive. Treat it as a temporary experiment. See what you observe from how people respond and relate to you hairless. It can be interesting. The hair and beard will be back in due time.

[Shooter1 in reply to MateoBeach]

Maybe!!! Mine didn't.

[bellyhappy]

Hope you found some time to do some light exercises like walking. Do not let the side effects drive you to become a couch potato. It helped me a lot during my treatment. God bless

[Scoofer33]

Welcome to the group, Mollygrace! I hope your treatment is able to climb on top of that PSA and shove it nose first into the ground!