anyone with low white cells, lupron also inhibits

Welcome back, hadn't seen you post recently.

After surgery, I stayed with the same uro/surgeon.
I went to a different group for adjuvant IGRT, and they covered me only until the followup PSA. Then back to my uro for further care.

The uro manages the Lupron right now. The medical oncologist sees all my reports, but is in agreement with the uro, so I don't see the onco beyond a yearly check-in. I keep that relationship active simply because getting in to see him as a new patient took many months, and I don't need to be a "new patient" again with that wait.

My GP follows all the normal blood work and health issues. He believes the RO grossly understated the side effects of the RT, and explained much of what you are mentioning.

It took my white blood cell count (WBC) well over 6 months to get up to the minimum side of the acceptable range after RT, and they still hover there, at the bitter edge of a problem. To this day when someone else gets a cold, I wind up in the ER just because of that. Before RT, it was at a healthy mid-normal range, and have never gotten back to that level.

I don't know about a relationship between Lupron and WBC production. Could be. But my WBC has been stable before, during, and after the 6 month Lupron shot. I'm on a 6 month vacation, will probably get another 6 month shot here in a couple of weeks, PSA to decide.

My WBC before IGRT was 6.76.  Four and one half months after the RT it is 5.54.

So it is still a little above the lower normal of 3.90.  Hope it doesn't continue to drop.

142,  Are you serious about ending up in the ER from being around someone with a cold?  With the flu and cold season upon us maybe a surgical mask would help when out in the public.  I remember lots of people getting treatment at Mayo wearing them.

BTW  Thanks for informing me about what the ZERO CLUB eligibility number is.

PhilC

well my psa continues to stay low, .034 probably an ADT Lupron effect. My white count is climbing ever so slowly. July of 13 1.3, oct 2013 1.6 and now 1.7. so the is hope. The words of my rep in Loma Linda was hardly anyone dies of PC once treated. But my question is how many succumb to the treatment? The flue hit my church with caughers and gagers all over the place, I now wacth church on the computer.

when I was told here I was a 7, I was estatic! I thought there was hope!!! then when I went to MDA they said I was a full blown 9 with 2 100% cores! gads. so shocked was I that I sent slides to Hopkins!! well a little better just 1 9! yikes. Then folks on this site and doctors told me about the big lab elevation of scores system??? Then at Loma Linda the dr Jabolla gave me a choice to accept treatment for what score I believe. A 7 treatment is almost a cakewalk, strictly protons, few sE's.
But being scared to death I took the 9 treatment of combined therapy. others call it tri-modal.
Little does one realize the brutality until ya go through it. I envied the guys later that could just cut it out. But I have a friend with a failed robotics, and had to do the rads anyway, poor man. I have another dear friend Bart, that after 3 years from protons he has relapsed. The protons failed. Loma Linda or MDA don't talk much about the failures. So I took Lupron, (before and after) protons, and photons. The Photons is brutal. But I wanted every chance to live so give it all to me now.
I was in a group of amazing guys with all the same story. One guy was having the night sweats along with his wife going thru menapose. daily wash they would do. My friend bart they are now talking salvage after radiation, Lupron and Cryo!!! with guaranteed SE's . I have a wonderful GP in San Bernardino, that does older patients. He thanked me for getting protons + Photons as the protons are not strong enough to get the lympf nodes. But I hear now San Diego protons can get the whole job done. My back pain is almost constant now, missing cartlidge. The bone scan is wonderful but they don't tell ya what to do?

Berdoo, I hear ya on the high core percentages of G9. You can see in my signature I had 2 at 100% 4+5 and 2 more at nearly 100% 5+4. I kind of freaked out, really, knowing what that implied, and the great guys on this forum helped me find my feet again. That was a very scary time.

Good for you that you went the aggressive route. So did I, for similar reasons. One shot at this really, so go hammer and tongs!

Are you still on HT? I have it for 3 years (though some studies suggest 18 months may be as good). Almost 6 months after RT, my PSA is <0.01 while I'm still on ADT2 (Lupron plus Casodex). No noticeable SEs from the RT. So far so good!

thanks for the notes guys. I stay in the email loop with my 9 brothers from loma linda. I am on the 2 year ADT. BUT with my low white cells Dr Jabolla thought it wise to take a break from the Lupron and try to get the whites going again. Interesting ya'all say rads 3dcomfor does not have an low effect?
ummmm Well 1 thing for sure I was a 4 before and a 1.3 after? stress? the runs, poor diet? Lupron for sure stresses me out. Now if a guy is a 6 dropping to 4 is nuthen. but a 4 dropping to 2 is more worser.
I'll give ya all a report after the pause and see if it is a pause that refreshes?
My oncologist is not concerned about a stable 1.7? He is not interested in adding to the fire.
The symptoms I have so far is on fire all night no sleep, and extreme exhaustion. tough to get outta the chair.