Does cancer treatment cause hot flashes and depression?

Yes, that and 27 other debilitations of cancer treatment that was completed 27 months ago, with “care” team and 7 specialists unable to relieve any. It’s called a cure worse than the disease.

Yes, had terrible hot flashes. Sweated like i was sitting in the hot sun for 20 minutes at a time. Until I started taking venaflaxzin. Now they are tolerable to nonexistent.

Oh yeah I get them all the time

Lord yes! Eligard finished two months ago but need 7 months more to go to normal. Some depression but for me unstable moods and emotions. Feel like a 12 year old again without the energy.

Inescapable for me while continuously on combined ADT type treatments and radiation for my mCSPC. The intensity for me is related to dosage/schedule of ADT drugs and injections and my specific condition. Fighting cancer for over 15 years when I started way back with a radical prostatectomy and then various doses of radiation. I deal with the hot flashes daily and for me, given all the drugs and supplements I already take, adding more prescriptions is not what I want to do.

No depression but the hot flashes were terrible they were no joke

Were you receiving hormone shots? Never had an issue with hot flashes post surgery or post radiation.

Yes I was getting the shots you’re a lucky man I hope you never get them I don’t think I will ever take them again

I was getting the shots but cut them off at 4 months over my oncologist’s objections, who wanted 18 months. The reason I terminated was owing to reading in medical journals about nearly 50% overtreatment of PCa, plus reading clinical trial results that showed no significant benefit of androgen deprivation beyond 4 months for my Stage 1, localized, single-core, 0.83 mm tumor. Unfortunately, the 4 months of ADT, though short, permanently killed off not just my masculine hormones, but also hormones connected to day/night perception—called circadian rhythm disorder (CRD). I’ve since gotten back sexuality with TRT (again fighting zero support of “Care” team), but there’s no cure for CRD and my average nightly sleep is 4 hours (usually 10pm to 2am—when I’m wide awake for the next 20 hours). All of which demonstrates the wreckage of life caused by overdiagnosis and overtreatment that plagues the world of prostate cancer, plus patients incorrectly assuming their “care” team cares about patients.