If you suffered the adverse side effects of dizziness and nausea with your trials of paxil and spironolactone, you probably won't be pleased to hear that both dizziness and nausea are also common adverse effects of lupron.

I am not sure what is up with my endo. She said she is fine with treating me, but after three calls over 2 weeks and not getting a response I went into the office without a appointment. I spoke with her nurse and she took notes, this was on monday. I didnt hear anything for the last 3 days so I called her office as I will be going out of town for work for 2 weeks. I was told she was out of the office till next Thursday. Maybe I am being impatient, I am just use to a fast response from my GP. I am also wondering if maybe she doesnt really want to treat me and this is her way of telling me.

At any rate this is getting to be a pain in the ass and I am about done with her. I realize there are other endos but this is the one my GP reffered me too and I thought after talking to the Doc the first two time things where going to work out good.

At anyrate my alternative method of castration seems to be working very well so maybe I should just leave it at that.

New patients often seem to get the slow track for new appointments. Once your established it can still be hit and miss depending on how popular the doctor is. When I first started seeing my GP I almost always got an appointment in very short order. Now, I think its more difficult because she has a lot more patients and I've even had to see an alternative doctor a few times.

Doctors don't phone. There are exceptions but this is not "Paid work" so its strongly discouraged. Some will EMail but there is a pay as you go system that makes that work in the system... See if they do "web visits" and so forth.

Its seems to be the way it goes for me. I was inpatient and took matters into my own hands and pretty much killed my nuts by injecting everclear into them.As far as I can tell there have been no bad effects from it. Go figure my endo calls and said that my insurance has approved lupron depot and my co-pay is 40 dollars and that is every 3 months. It is crazy how much the cash price is 2237.99. I guess I will stop the alcohol and see how the lupron works for me.

Injecting things into your testicles is crazy stuff. PLEASE! For the love of God - STOP! We had a member here (A good guy) who took things into his own hands and ended up dead. Is this THAT important that your willing to kill yourself?

Get with your doctor and make a pact to follow her lead. WORK with them don't work around them...

If getting to low levels of testosterone makes you feel lousy don't assume going lower is going to make you feel better. Its "possible" the idea of castration is better then the reality. A lot of us who are surgical castrates (for whatever reason) and have experienced low hormones and don't like it will tell you its not at all like the Castration Porn on EA.

mrt (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:47 pm Injecting things into your testicles is crazy stuff. PLEASE! For the love of God - STOP! We had a member here (A good guy) who took things into his own hands and ended up dead. Is this THAT important that your willing to kill yourself?

Get with your doctor and make a pact to follow her lead. WORK with them don't work around them...

If getting to low levels of testosterone makes you feel lousy don't assume going lower is going to make you feel better. Its "possible" the idea of castration is better then the reality. A lot of us who are surgical castrates (for whatever reason) and have experienced low hormones and don't like it will tell you its not at all like the Castration Porn on EA.

Believe me I have read all the horror stories and warnings and I do realize the risks I am taking . Unfortunately there are not alot of options unless you have money to burn. I was chemically castrated for almost a year and a half so I do know what low T is about (54) and I feel better than I ever have. I just resorted to that because the high dose of siterone and tamoxifin was costing me more that I could afford. For me the reality of castration level T is what I need. This has nothing to do with any turn on for me but makes me a better and happier person.

Now that I am getting somewhere with my endo I will be working with her. I just never thought my insurance company would ever pay for Lupron depot due to the ridiculous cost. I am looking forward to doing it with the doctors help. It just seems that they dont always give us alot of options.

terry

Everything medical takes time. Getting appointments, changing meds, waiting for labs.

Learning what you need to know to BE a doctor takes time. 4 years of collage, 6 more of medical school. Then? More for various special tracks. Thats why self injecting weird stuff is truly a bad idea. Or buying drugs from the internet and trying it out on your own. These are all great ways to get a dirt nap. Stick with your new doctor and let her do her magic!

Lupron is long term stuff so I have my fingers crossed that you will be happy with the results. Good luck!

Start taking Calcium now! 2x a day.

Good luck! It is always nice to find a good Dr to work with you.