Happy with your castration???

[MikeGrant (imported)]

I have been chemically castrated using Androcure, off it now because of side effects. I find it strange that when I am off androcure my interest and desire for castration rockets, then as soon as i reach chemical castration levels I cant think what the fuss is all about, its just a great place to be, emotionally, mentally and sexually. I just wish i could control the physical side effects better. I wonder if surgical castration and then controlling T levels would work, but thats a big risk to take if it doesnt work out! I just got back from a weeks back country camping and hiking between 10,000ft and 12,000ft and I know i would never have been able to do it had i stayed on Androcure. I want my cake and eat it!

I just had coffee with a friend who has his last chemo for prostate cancer next week. The things he and his wife have been through over the last 18 months have been awful. As a high risk candidate for pc ( my father, uncle, and recently a cousin have died from it) i know i dont want to go through it, and an argument for castration would be easy at the first blip in PSA. reassuring to hear the positive feed back here, but still worried about physical side effects.

[unencumbered (imported)]

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I wonder if surgical castration and then controlling T levels would work, but thats a big risk to take if it doesnt work out! ..

As a high risk candidate for pc ...

i know i dont want to go through it, and an argument for castration would be easy at the first blip in PSA. reassuring to hear the positive feed back here, but still worried about physical side effects.

With such a high risk at stake, I would want know if a prophylactic castration would prevent or inhibit prostate cancer. From what I’ve read and from personal experience, one’s prostate gland shrinks to almost nothing. Whether that in itself is enough, I don’t know. However, I do know from my own discovery that supplemental testosterone has significantly increased my energy level and improved my overall health, to someone much younger than my current age. I also am under much better care by a physician ever since my castration, as my urologist has been regularly monitoring my prostate health over these past five years. So far, so good for me.

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

One sad thing about prostate cancer is how testosterone helps it grow. So high risk men could get castrated before any cancer starts. But they d need to go without any T or on low T to get the benefit of being castrated.

Tough to have your cake and eat it too.

But men at high risk of getting prostate cancer should have early castration as one of their options to choose from. Prostate cancer is a painful and terrible way to die. That makes preventative castration look attractive. But going without any testosterone at all is tough to do.

[MikeGrant (imported)]

I watched my farther go from being a strong, active, healthy man to dead in 6 months. It was a horrible, ugly, painful way to die. I am not going to die that way.

[notsomanly (imported)]

I have a friend who has a BRCA gene mutation that makes breast cancer almost certain (~90%). She was thinking seriously about prophylactic mastectomy at age ~35 when she discovered lumps that led to several years of chemo that nearly killed her and did severe damage to her digestive system. She's doing fine now, but regrets delaying mastectomy before it was too late.

My PSA was starting to rise as of last December, before going on Androcur. I'm pretty sure I want to be castrated and the risk of prostate cancer is a strong motivator. Whatever the side effects of castration, can they possibly be worse than cancer?

[MikeGrant (imported)]

Whilst on Androcure i was gasping for breath just sitting and talking. I am an active person, so yes the thought of not being able to do anything is just as hard. I know that if i go see my Dr. there are other options than Androcure hopefully without those side effects. I think i read its the fillers rather than the drug that cause them. I think i would rather prevent than cure PC, but i rather feel like i did as a kid having to jump off the top board to get my life saving certificate. Its very scary up here looking down not knowing what will happen when i jump, but knowing for sure what will happen if i go back to the steps. I did jump as a kid, with seconds to spare, and actually pulled 2 people out when i qualified. I had coffee with a friend who has gone through surgery and 2 years of chemo and is hoping his next treatment is the last and he will be all clear. A friends husband died in June unexpectedly after finishing treatment for very aggressive PC. The problem is there are no Dr's standing at the side of the pool encouraging me to jump. They seem to be racing up the steps to pull me back down! Perhaps because of my family history and watching my father die day by day, I am a little paranoid about it. lol, i know my anxiety is rising day by day as i wait for the results of my last psa test! I am sure I will jump, but only able to curl my toes over the edge at the moment.

[Reality21 (imported)]

In November of 1999 I popped off my balls. I even wrote a brief story about it and posted it here and on BME I then went on to become a wanderer of the western states for the next 12 years looking for what I knew not. Yorkies filled my life and then ,,, well lots of stuff. Nearly 20 years now and HRT makes life easier, but with the rise and fall of T the drive awakens with a limp dick. Extream TENS allows a semblance of orgasm to visions of erotic destruction that drove me to self harm. The demons can never be truly excised. But I survived while most of my cohorts have passed on. AIDS, accidents, asbestoses,Drugs, Marrage too! I survived and after many adventures I am still here. I just passed 70 and still able to travel with most of my buttons intact. A few ventures left. Glad I cut 'am for being driven by them in to a marage a of unwanted abasement and slavery most foule is worse than HELL. This is a brief update. I remember not the name under which I posted nearly 20 years ago. THANKS TO THIS PLACE OF ACEPTANCE AND HEALING.

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

Whilst on Androcure i was gasping for breath just sitting and talking. I am an active person, so yes the thought of not being able to do anything is just as hard. I know that if i go see my Dr. there are other options than Androcure hopefully without those side effects. I think i read its the fillers rather than the drug that cause them. I think i would rather prevent than cure PC, but i rather feel like i did as a kid having to jump off the top board to get my life saving certificate. Its very scary up here looking down not knowing what will happen when i jump, but knowing for sure what will happen if i go back to the steps. I did jump as a kid, with seconds to spare, and actually pulled 2 people out when i qualified. I had coffee with a friend who has gone through surgery and 2 years of chemo and is hoping his next treatment is the last and he will be all clear. A friends husband died in June unexpectedly after finishing treatment for very aggressive PC. The problem is there are no Dr's standing at the side of the pool encouraging me to jump. They seem to be racing up the steps to pull me back down! Perhaps because of my family history and watching my father die day by day, I am a little paranoid about it. lol, i know my anxiety is rising day by day as i wait for the results of my last psa test! I am sure I will jump, but only able to curl my toes over the edge at the moment.

I think a lot of men with relatives with living with prostate cancer or who got cured or died from prostate cancer go through what you describe here. Trying to decide what to do and when to do it in attempting to avoid prostate cancer in themselves at later ages. I think its on more men s minds than anyone ever admits or discusses with each other.

I bet if a public educational meeting was offered for men concerned about how to avoid or decrease their risks of getting and suffering from prostate cancer by the use of pre emptive castration, a lot of men would willingly attend it to find out more about it and at what age it would be most effective to get castrated. I m guessing most men would never bring it up to their family dr and most drs would quickly dismiss any ideas of pre emptive castrations of healthy men s testicles before any diagnosis of prostate cancer.

But men done having kids likely wonder about this every time they think about prostate cancer and think about all of the men who get castrated too late to do much good and too late to save their lives and avoid immense suffering from this cancer.

Its a realistic idea that many men think about, but it is hardly ever talked about.

[gay2girl (imported)]

Very disconcerted, lost my balls to orchitis at 24. Am a straight male wanting to be masculine and trying to adapt to a new life as a eunuch

Hope you find peace. It is hard when the castration isn't something you chose for yourself. I found a new life as a tgirl. I think it actually saved my life. Sometimes I think what my life might have been like with balls, but no point "crying over spilt milk" as they say, just accept what you are!

[notsomanly (imported)]

I have been chemically castrated using Androcure, off it now because of side effects. I find it strange that when I am off androcure my interest and desire for castration rockets, then as soon as i reach chemical castration levels I cant think what the fuss is all about, its just a great place to be, emotionally, mentally and sexually.

I have had the same experience. For me, getting castrated seemed to be a sexual fantasy that disappeared with the rest of my sex drive. It has been revealing to learn what is an inherent drive and what is T dependent. Living with low T is definitely what I want, mostly because I came to hate having libido.