Lupron treatment and Fatigue...

After initial 30 day Eligard shot, I was fortunate enough to see my PSA drop from 10 to 3.4 Testosterone (food for cancer) dropped from 461 to a mere 2.5 Then I received the next and final 90 day shot while receiving the 28 day SBRT. Hot flashes at night are miserable but the ceiling fan remote in hand helps. Zero libido and daytime sleepiness is another curveball we are forced to deal with. Just trying to keep my eye on the prize and stay positive til its over... 66 yrs. old

Gad, I hurt for you three. Bless you for tending to your M-I-L and she was like mine, she was my stand in Mom. My wife has end stage COPD and there won't be any long term getting better buy I intend to stay around for her. I'm 82, she's 76 so I'll take the Lupron as long as it takes.
Hugs to your wife, your Mother In Law and when no one's looking, give yourself a hug too!

Dear Sir,
I was on Lupron for 2-1/4 years. I was exhausted! My wife and I have to move her 95 year old Mother who suffered a stroke 15 years ago and was affected on her left side. I had been a colliegate wrestler and always fit. Lupron has made me a weakling. I am very nervous that I will drop my mother in law or injure both of us. If the tasks for your wife is only making food and shopping you can make it (don't hype out over a messy house). But if your wife is bed ridden and in need of turning and washing and lifting, in my humble opinion you will need extra people to assist you in caring for your wife. Please call your Cancer Doctor and get the numbers and contacts for the associations and institutions that provide in home care in your area. None of us are Superman, but I wish you well and a recovery for your wife. God Bless

I am on a break from the Lupron currently at 7 months, PSA at 0.04. If it rises at all I'm going to advocate that the Doctor put me back on it. Yes, awful side effects and all!! I agreed with my wife that longevity was the prime objective when we decided to take the EBRT, HIR and ADT protocol route to slow the deadly effects of prostate cancer and the agonizing painful death of final stage pc bone cancer. As my 90 year old Mother told me and my 8 surviving siblings (of her and my Father's 12 children) on her hospice bed, "Life is for the Living! So enjoy the life you have!" Carpe Diem!

Thanks and hope you get some relief. Several have mentioned a med to help with Lupron hot flashed.

I take 3 month Eligard injections and Darolutamide. Hot flashes are horrible but I just try and roll through them. When they come and my skin feels like it is on fire and I start sweeting I go outside in the code to cool off and it helps. The worst is when I am taking a knap and wake up feeling like I cannot breath and then I am hit with a hot flash. That is how mine always start. It is a feeling in you stomach and it starting moving up. There is a few seconds where it feels like all the air in my lung escape and them it move up to my shoulders and head and ends with perfuse sweeting. I do not want my doctor to lower my meds because I would rather live with hot flashes than make mistake and have the cancer advance on me. Right now I am undetectable and I plan on staying that way for many years. Regardless, hot flashes suck.

After eligard injection psa has gone down fron 12 to 7

Same thing here. Would always get the comments...."your bladder isn't full enough".

Had eligard injection 7/3/23.Hot flashes seem to have gotten better.Just completed 5 day sbrt last Friday.Had trouble keeping rectum empty and bladder full.

Hope your luck with hot flashes holds and I'm that fortunate.

I started 3-monthly injections 14 months ago. Changed to once-monthly about half way. Can’t say much of a difference. Generally weak. Physical therapy helps. Walking helps—I use poles.