Prostate gland symptoms and conditions

I am in month 4 of a 4 month Lupron shot that my doctor gave to prepare for surgery. I was told I might get hot flashes, loss of libido, increased urinary symptoms for a few weeks. No one said anything and there was absolutely nothing in all the drug leaflets they gave me that would have prepared me for the the horror story that my life was about to become. As if having cancer was not bad enough.Since day 2 I have suffered so many bad side effects that I have lost count. The worst is insomnia and nothing has helped including high doses of Ambien. They suggested Lunesta but my health insurance company balked and even if they had said yes, my co-payment would be unaffordable. This stuff is more expensive than gold. I am exhausted all the time. I have terrible memory problems that are so bad that I can be talking to some I know really well and not remember their name. I am unable to concentrate on anything, my mood swings are unbelievable, I feel mentally disoriented and dissociated all the time, high blood pressure, racing pulse, high blood sugar, hot flashes, raging night sweats, dizziness, bad balance. The side effects that I can handle include nausea, headaches, diarrhea, joint and muscle pain. I am supposed to be on Lupron for 2 years. The only difference I see with my Lupron experience and others here is that my gender is MALE and I have early stage prostate cancer. Being male, my other serious Lupron side effect is complete impotence which is going to go on for a long while due to the radiation. I had radioactive seed implants into my prostate gland done a week ago and I have to follow this with 5 weeks of beam radiation. Lupron seems to be an equal opportunity drug. Lupron has messed me up so badly that for the past 5 weeks I have been off work on disability status with no chance of going back for at least a month and my Dr thinks that may be optimistic. No one seems to know how long it will take to get back to some kind of normal. I just could not function at work and ended up in my doctors office having a complete emotional meltdown. I would caution anyone, male or female, to consider Lupron very carefully before having it.

I have been taking doxycycline hyclate for acne for the past three weeks and find that I am now urinating a lot especially after intake of liquids and it seems as if I empty the same amount that I consume.This is really very annoying and inconvenient.

I am a 56 year old male on 5mg. Zocor as a start up dose for high LDL. I have had severe prostate pain increasing since I began Zocor. The pain seems to get better when I stop ZOCOR and much worse when I start it again. Since there are numerous muscles in the urinary tract area and around the prostate gland, I am wondering if Zocor could be affecting these muscles like it affects muscles in the rest of the body. Any other people have pain in this area of their bodies ???

I have been taking pseudoephedrine for many years for relief of nasal stuffiness. In the past 5-6 months I have been experiencing urinary retention, going to the emergency room once. I read the warnings of possible side effects, one being urninary retention--in men. I am a woman, no prostate gland involved here. In looking back at any of the symptoms and when they occurred, they occurred during the time I was taking pseudoephedrine. I have found no possible side effects listed referring to women having urinary retention. Has any other woman out there had this occur?