The treatment of cancer has led to the male menopause

Night sweats and hot flashes - that that was the result of medication for the treatment of prostate cancer. And taking them to the man himself feel what happens to women who face menopause.

When the Englishman Bruce Tasker heard complaints friends ladies on the symptoms of menopause, the internally I felt lucky. After all, he somehow just never have to deal with this phenomenon, no matter what age he has attained. But in 48 years, Bruce became ill prostate cancer , Wherein its most aggressive form that is 25% of the victims of the disease. This meant that, along with chemotherapy and radiation, he has to be rushed to start hormone treatment, that is to take medications to suppress the production of the male hormone testosterone, supplying the tumor.

Injections of the drug were made only once in three months, but it was enough to produce the amazing side effects. So, Bruce began to suffer from night sweats, and then by most of these tides, which are usually visited by women after menopause . In addition, a patient with prostate cancer   behavior changed dramatically, becoming a little too "feminine."

"A few days after the first injection, I suddenly started to cry, they say, from scratch, - says Bruce. - Look at fly past the window a bird and starts to cry. A hot flashes and sweats at night? It seems as if someone threw in You pack with water. I get these injections for three years. I suffer from bouts of depression and anxiety, progressive fatigue. All of confidence completely evaporated. And, of course, cool recovered, especially in the waist. Medication has helped to take the disease under control, but These side effects ... "(read more)

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