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Lupron Treatment Duration: How long were you on it?
I have been diagnosed with Grade 3 prostate cancer with a 4 + 3 Gleason score of 7. This after having 2 PSA scores last year between 4 and 7. The cancer has not spread to the bones. I have received two Lupron injections 3 months apart and will complete 28 radiation treatments in the next couple of days. No surgery. I have tolerated the Lupron shots well with few but manageable side effects. I have an appointment to receive a third Lupron shot next month. My first PSA test after completing radiation won't be scheduled for 3 months. From researching Lupron, it appears that this is used for advanced stages of prostate cancer. From what I was led to believe, I was not advanced. My question: How long and how many Lupron shots might I need to go through? I will have this discussion with my urologist hopefully before proceeding with the next shot. Thanks for any information provided by the group.
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I was on luprone and Erleada for a year and it was tolerable. Some brain fog, flashes, sleep disorder , loss of sex drive but it was medicine that has helped to keep me undetectable for 3 years. I am G 9, CR, locally advanced.
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1 ReactionI too was 4+3 G7. 66 year old, PSA was 10 after a failed Hi-Fu. I was informed by my radiologist that based on my numbers, ADT was recommended to compliment the radiation effectiveness. It seems there is a higher success rate when combined. Not wanting to take any more chances, I went with the prescribed 4 mth ADT program and 28 Rads. Testosterone went to 2.5. After 9 mths, PSA still undetectable 0.02, However, most recent PSA showed slight uptick to 0.08, (T level reached 300), hopefully nothing to worry about.....Best to all
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1 ReactionHello,
I was diagnosed at age 66 with G8 4+4 PC, the treatment that I chose was radiation and that was 45 treatments over 9 weeks and then 12 months of Lupron. Ice been off Lupron for 1 year now but I have no Libido, no stirring, no desire to even try, if I try to master bate it's like beating a dead horse, I have a penile implant but there just aren't any feelings, my breast's became moobs and I really would enjoy intimacy with my wife again but there just isn't any fuel in the tank. I have no idea if I'll ever feel intimacy again and now I'm only 68 years old, to young to just give up.
Thanks for reading, any comments are welcomed
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