I have been taking hormone XTANDI for a few weeks now and I don't have any side effects beyond those that I had with the Lupron injections. I had headaches for 3 or 4 weeks and then they went away when I started on Lupron. There were no headaches so far with XTANDI. I continue to have hot flashes but I kind of just ignore them.

I'll be getting blood tests every 6 weeks and my PSA should drop to 0, which would mean that my cancer is in remission.

I started radiation treatment on September 7th. I was surprised at how short the treatments were - 15 minutes. I have a total of 10 treatments so I'll be done by September 20th. The last time I had radiation treatment I was very tired by the time the Friday treatment ended; I had to have about 35 treatments and I was tired a lot.

I did take a nap after these two treatments, but then again I've been taking a lot of naps since I had the surgery 6 weeks ago. I don't think I'll have that level of fatigue that I had the last time I had radiation. I bought some calendula cream in case the radiation irritates my skin, but that doesn't seem to be happening so far.

It seems like there have been improvements in radiation therapy since I had it 6 years ago. Just so long as the radiation knocks out the cancer!