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Getting second lupron injection: Does your body handle it better?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 8 6:40pm | Replies (39)Comment receiving replies
After 2 injections of Lupron and 23 radiation treatments, I was very exhausted. I so fed up with feeling this way I became angry. I went home, put on my swim suit and went swimming in the local salt water lagoon. Since I was out of shape for swimming I only swam about 200 yards. ( I gradually work up to 1000 yards.) When I got out of the water I felt about 70% of my energy came back along with a better attitude. I attribute this to breathing deep with each stroke which injects oxygen into the blood stream. I had 2 years of Lupron and went thru a lot of what you are going thru. My last injection of Lupron was last March. Most of the bad experience is leaving. I am 87 years old and still swim in the summer, lift weights twice a week and run up 3/12 flights of stairs as fast as I can twice a week.
I'm a firm believer in exercise to relieve much of the negative things you mentioned.
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@maga You're an inspiration!! Good for you!
I workout pretty regularly and walk my dog every day, which has helped with the fatigue.
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@maga Yeah, I agree that exercise is IT, for many reasons. But there's little or no discussion among these threads about the situation of people who've never really exercised, and then are hit with ADT. There was the long habit of no exercise in the "before time" (which doesn't go away), and now they get the additional physical fatigue with ADT, for a double-whammy. Top that off with the idea that you have to bust your butt or you're not doing it right, and the couch looks pretty good. But there are some ways to get started. Google "starting an exercise program from zero" for some easy and sensible beginner tips.