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ADT, Hot Flashes and Ashwagandha: Is it safe?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 25, 2025 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
When your testosterone is essentially zero after a standard Lupron dose and for seven months thereafter then there would seem to be a high probability that you were overdosed. My urologist agreed that for me the standard dose may have been too much, but he would not give me a testosterone booster shot. My side effects were life threatening with a standard dose. I have also read that the majority of men will never get back to a normal testosterone level and will never stop having side effects. Everything I read suggests that the standard Lupron dose is too high for many men. There needs to be a study that determines who should get a lower dose.
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The studies have shown that men don’t get back to the same testosterone level they were at before not that they don’t get back to a normal testosterone level. I’ve heard of a lot of people stopping Lupron and only a few that ever said they didn’t ever get back to a normal level. Attend an ancan.org Weekly advanced prostate cancer meeting and find out more, But you will find out most men do get most of their testosterone back.
People and Orgovyx get it back much quicker, I’ve heard at least a couple people say their testosterone came back in a few months.
There is no standard lower dose of Lupron. They have one month, three months, four month and six month shots. The drug is absorbed into the body over that time and dissipates right after that amount of time passes. If you were to get a lower amount of Lupron, it would just be absorbed quicker.
You could instead take Orgovyx and not take the pill every day. It does have a 25 hour half-life. It would still drop your testosterone quite low.