I am 79years old and have had stage iv prostate cancer for about three years. Part of my early treatment was Eligard shots for about a year. It's a time release shot so frequency shouldn't matter. It takes your testosterone down below 50 on the theory that the testosterone is feeding the cancer.

The shot was given in my belly and was painful. I had night sweats and hot flashes on and off, but nothing intolerable. If you had a sex life it goes to zero.

I came off it after a year or so, my testosterone slowly returned, and with it an infrequent and pale imitation of a sex life.

My psa has again been rising and my oncologist is lobbying to resume the Eligard shots. I told him I was not convinced of the inexorable relationship between high testosterone and high PSA but if my next blood work showed a steady or falling testosterone and a radically high PSA , which was the PSA trend, I would consent to resume the Eligard shots.

My next blood work showed a testosterone level which skyrocketed to my highest ever recorded level and a PSA which had a precipitous drop. I declined to proceed with the Eligard as I think my most recent blood work shows it was not my high testosterone level driving the increase in PSA but something else.