I did not suffer the side affects of radiation therapy that many report. The radiation therapy sapped my strength, slowly. Only after the radiation was completed and the recovery started, did I realize how weak I was. I noticed the rapid improvements, on a daily basis almost as soon as the radiation was completed. I'm still on the hormone treatment and will be for some time to come.
Prostrate cancer feeds on testosterone and the hormone treatments decrease testosterone levels.
I'll be getting several checkups per year for the next three years and then back to the once a year PSA blood test. My last PSA was less than 0.5. I have more patience with my family and close friends and less patience with others. And I put on some extra weight, as if I needed that. My wife has stood beside me in every step of the ordeal and I do not know if I'd be the same today if it were not for her support.