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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (27)

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@azp52

Exactly! I’m not sure what’s happening. I am on Lupron and experiencing some obvious, not-so-great side effects, yet my T-levels are low normal. I have no pre-treatment T-levels for comparison. A lower PSA post-Lupron injection should correlate with a very low T-level. The last PSA test was rising slightly, so we'll see where this all goes. I’m considering stopping the Lupron and monitoring. The only treatment I am on that would lower the PSA is Lupron.

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The purpose of using Lupron is to get your T below 50 ng/dL; as a result, your PSA should get to undetectable (“< “). (While on Eligard, my T dropped to 3.0 ng/dL, and my PSA down to < 0.008 ng/mL.)

At T levels of >300 ng/dL you might not be feeling any side-effects of the Lupron. It depends on what baseline T levels would have been for you.
Has your PSA had a significant drop?