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| OldDogLearning wrote:
> opereation, is to have an injection of lupron. Has anyone here been
> living with that treatment? I think it drives out all thoughts and
> desires for sex. Sex is an important matter for me, so I am refusing
> the treatment. I wonder if the hormone therapy is as bad as I am told -
> It essentially stops the production of testosterone, eliminates
> interest in sex, although erections might be possible through the usual
> methofs.
>
> My doctor is pushing to have me take drugs that will essentially remove
> my testicles. Sounds weired? This is standard treatment in prostate
> cancer. I already had my prostate removed five years ago. I am 71.
> Tests done at the time showed the my PSA test score was ZERO However,
> ofver five years it has been going up form 0.0 to 6. This together
> with a score of 9 on the gleason scale (measure of original prostate's
> propensity to spread and tumor growth, as I understand).
>
> The doctor claims I will be dead in five years withouit doing
> something, even though there are no signs of cancer, other then the
> test report fof the PSA. An oncologist said it could go up much more
> and I would never need to do anything, except watch for any signs of
> cancer showing up in CAT or Bone Scans. None are there now.
>
> I did have lupron before the operaiton and remember it made me feel
> completely without interest in much of anything - a sort of emptiness.
> Mostly I was worried and about the operation, not sex.
>
> Since the operation and even before, i have had severe ED and lack of
> nerve and opportunity to have more than very little sex. Nerve is over
> not wanting to have a problem with ED.Nevertheless, I think about sex a
> good part of my day, am very attracted to women, and would have sex
> much more often, given the oportunity. Lack of sex to me seems like
> lack of life, so why bother to extend a useless life?
>
> That is my thinking. I would like to know if the hormone treatment will
> make me into a Eunnic (sp?) . Before, in fact, the urologists removed
> both testicles of men who need this treatment as it was much more
> effective.
>
> So if anyone is on this hormone treatmet, it would help me to deside.
>
> Thanks.
>
Cousin underwent a year of Lupron along with radioactive 'seeding'
several years ago. Spoke with him in June. Claims to be back in the
saddle again. No idea about how long it took him to "bounce back" (his
term) when the Lupron was discontinued.
....Lmac
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