SINCE TAKING MY FIRST LUPRON SHOT, I HAVE NEVER FELT SO BAD IN AL...

can you please tell me if you remember the side effects onth by onth i am going for my 3rd shot and 2 weeks ago all the pain in my stomach is back and now i am having breakthrough bleeding

I have hives one large red one on my upper quad and several appeared on my upper arm bicep area a few days later. I have itchy scalp at night where I feel like I can't stop scratching. I smell terrible never have I ever had to worry about body odor until lupron powder and lots of baths/showers more than normal as I can't stand the smell. I also have had terrible hot flashes mainly at night where I awake soaking wet from hed to toe and feel so gross. I had terrible abdominal pain and daily bleeding before from known fibroid cysts and it was not diagnosed that I had endo but my doc said probably as the pain and the bleeding was not = to fibroids alone. I like not being in pain and not bleeding daily but the smells, night sweats, insomina, tired during the day, headahces, and hives are not cool either. I am on my 2nd month so 2 shots and this is what I am experiencing so far. I dont' know how a person could work in an office with this drug as there is no way I could say that I could work outside the home with this med as it is way to difficult and changes a person in way to many ways. I am so tired that I can barely see straight etc.

I have just finished a 12 month treatment with Lupron (Eligard) and it has been a living Hell. The first injection took me into the blackest depression I have ever experienced. I suspect that this is the result of the testosterone dropping. I had to take 200 mg. of Zoloft to stop the depression. I missed work and was too weak to move around for the first two weeks after each injection. The last one was the worst. I didn't care if I died. This drug sucks the life out of you. For the last year, I have managed to function zombie-like in a small gray world where every day is as bleak as the day before. Short term memory is gone. I cannot do simple mathematics. When reading, as I go from one paragraph to the next, I forget what was in the last paragraph. Having to get up and go to work is torture and it seems like it will never end. My last injection was in January and over the last three weeks the "lights" are beginning to come back on and I have been able to work in the yard for up to two hours.

The doctor says that it will be July-August before I will feel normal again.

I suspect that about that time, my PSA will begin to rise and I will have to go through it again. I really don't know how I can do it again and keep my job.