On Lupron experiencing major depression and anxiety

Meditation and exercise may help, with exercise also being vital for bone and muscle health along with weight control. Having said that, with your heightened side effects I ask your Uro or RO why, specifically, you are not a candidate for anti-depressives.

Stay Strong Brother, we got this.

I’ve heard from many people that have been given drugs that control psychiatric issues like Depression from Lupron/ADT. You need to speak to a doctor that will prescribe those kind of pills for you. In some cases. It’s gotta be a psychiatrist, but many doctors can do it.

Thanks I go this week and will ask again I get very lil sleep I just nap I’m up every hour and a half it’s crazy

Thanks for the input

Tagging @scottbeammeup on this discussion.

We're all different, and we all react somewhat differently to ADT. I'm in my 4th year on it (after having one year off) and this time things are better, because I do a lot of resistence exercise. I lift a LOT of weights, 3 times a week.

Why did you have one year off? Low PSA? Just curious.

Yep. My PSA went way down, 0.0 something, so I earned a vacation from ADT. But, it didn't take long for my PSA to shoot up again, so I'm back on it.

Hi Stevieg,
You are having a much tougher time of it than I did during my two years on lupron and abiraterone as I missed out on the panic attacks. For much of the two years, I was up every 90 minutes like clockwork due to nocturia as a result of a newly aquired case of edema. I also had a decreasing RBC. The fatigue that resulted made it much more difficult to benefit much from the exercise and my mood swings were horrible and totally our of character. Work ( I am a contractor), hiking, cycling, snowshoeing and xc skiing became increasingly difficult. I became depressed over what seemed to be my new reality. I discussed the issues with my MO and urologist repeatedly, but to no avail. I was reassured that the nocturia, edema and anemia I was experiencing are not unusual. My research indicated that that was, in fact, the case. It was finally getting my primary care physician involved that turned evrything around very quickly. It turns out that I had an overactive thyroid. Thirty days into being treated for that, almost every symptom I that had been experiencing for 2 years vanished; and Iwas back to my old self. My point is, be sure to maintain a regular connection with a great primary care doctor. The MO, RP and urologist are experts in their fields, but keeping the PCP on your team provides an expert in evaluating the whole body and connecting you quickly to whatever experts it may take to resolve your depression, mood swings and panic attacks. I wish you the best in identifying the cause and resolution to your symptoms. Hang in there, you've got this!
Bill

Thank you fir the encouragement!