Emotional change with Eligard?

I just got my second 6 month shot of Eligard on Monday. I have felt an emotional swing the past two days. Started crying like a 10 year old schoolgirl a little while ago. I also have experienced a feeling of fear and being all alone. Has anyone else had these mood swings? They are new to me and I've been on HT for quite some time. The feeling of fear or shall I say no confidence really bothers me. My passion in life is singing. I am scheduled to sing tonight and I am scared to death. Never felt this way before.

Any help?

Love and blessings to all from a 54 year old cry baby.

Walt

Walt ~ Stay close... and continue reaching out.   If you need guidance immediately ~ go back and read your postings to others... then apply them to you!   You have given so much and now we need you to pull from all of our strengths.   Wrap your arms around yourself and feel the power of others surrounding you.   Pull from the Courage you have shown here...   We become brave by doing brave acts. Look in the mirror and see the face of courage.   This is you!!!   Obviously ~ something is going on with the "medication" and you know this ~ so continue to focus that it is the medication.     You are scheduled to sing tonight!!!   Sing for all of us... don't let any dark clouds cover your sky.   When you look up ~ you will see us and your.....                      ~   WAR   EAGLE    ~   Put this little rainbow in your pocket and know we are there for you!!!! Now ~ sing as you’ve never sung before….   *This is your very own Rainbow and it’s sprinkled with Sunshine* * ////////////////////// /////////////////// * ///////// /////////////// /////////////////////////// * ////////// ////////////////////// * ///// ///// //////////////////////// ///////////////////// ///////////// ///////// /////////// * ////////// ///////////// ////////// * ////////// ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * **    Feel our wings beneath you as you research why this is happening…… Warm Hugs and Gentle Thoughts are with you. In Friendship ~ Lee & Buddy

Dear Crybaby Walt,

Sometimes Don cries (Lupron) sometimes he's very irritatable, sometimes he is very listless & blue. Sometimes...not all the time...just sometimes.

I picture you singing tonight as if it were the most wonderful, amazing thing for you and everyone there. I wish I was there to see & hear you.

WAR EAGLE = HOPE,

Susan

I experienced mood swings while on Lupron. For example, I'd be driving down the road and suddenly start crying. Couldn't stop. The spells would last about 10 minutes. After a while, I learned to not let myself get too upset, take long slow breaths, and simply wait it out. I've been on Casodex for years now. 150mg (three pills daily) for about two years, now 100mg. The Casodex is far better in many ways.

Walt,

It's just been a little ove a week that I began crying like a.. a.. 5 yr. old.  I felt so hopeless and I knew in my mind I had Hope in the Lord.  I felt I had lost the battle with incontinence (bio-feedback didn't work immediately) which meant a loss of any future hope of intimacy with my wife. 

Then I opened your post and read and was renewed to hope again.  That night I decided that even if I never became continent again, I was not dead.  One of the outcomes was a determination to become intimate with my wife again via the injections.  I did that and even though I encountered a bump that brought more fear, I am going forward.  You helped me.  Now I hope we can all encourage you.  Like Mama Bluebird said, apply your post to Walt now.  And know some fellow believers are praying for you tonight.

Gene

Dear Bluebird,

Isn't it amazing what virtual hugs can do?  Just goes to show that when we act as one to defeat this disease, we are truly connected at the heart...

Love ya,   

Jim

War Eagle/Interior Decorator/Singer/Cryer

I obviously have not been on HT, but being 9 months pregnant, I know the feeling of being a basket case of hormones...the trip down PCa lane that I have been on with my father has not helped the issue and my husband probably thinks I am bipolar, though he loves and supports me anyways.  So much for Big Girls not crying..I'm a pregnant girl that cries all the time...(I'm sure you could sing that song)  I am really nervous about the emotional side effects of HT for my father.  I have heard that crying is pretty "normal".  As if you guys don't have enough to deal with!! That being said...I have found in my situation that KNOWING the emotions are normal due to the circumstances and being able to keep my sense of humor even if I am crying like a baby, help to deal with the cirumstances.   

The mind is a powerful thing...but I have found it works both ways...it can bring me up or down...I have to decide where I am going to let it take me and have to FORCE myself to do things that will help me be positive.  Some days I am just going to cry, BUT I refuse to be depressed!  Life is too short!  Your nephew sounds like he is a great source of joy and I am glad you can draw from that.  Just remember that you have more strength than you know and you are never alone in this fight.   Good luck tonight!! I know you will be great!!!!   

Doting

Doting daughter,

After my experience with Lupron, and the emotional swings and the crying, I have a greater respect for what the ladies go through!

The most important thing for me was to convince myself that the emotions were temporary, that they would pass, and do my best to "ignore" them. That method did greatly reduce the overall time, and minimized carry-over effects.

War Eagle and Gene (from another Gene),

Have you guys considered an arificial sphincter and impants? Be glad to discuss them with you.

Irish Daughter:

Regarding your dad; it sounds like his case is very similar to mine. During the first round with Eligard last year, I hit rock bottom on the depression. I couldn't work for two weeks until the Zoloft kicked in. I have never really liked Zoloft and when my PSA began to go up again 8 weeks ago, I had the doctor put me on Wellbutrin since it has a bit of a kick in it. I suspected it might help my fatigue as well as the depression. So far, it seems to be working very well. Of course, I am only into the 3 week of the 1st injection but last time, I was already depressed by now.

Texdoc

Hi midi,
Your Casodex bottle should have the dose that was prescribed. For the record when I was on hormone therapy I took Casodex daily for 28 months. Mine were 50mg once a day. I was on Lupron with my Casodex but it's essentially the same regimen. Eligard is an equivalent to Lupron.

The gentleman who started this thread is an old friend of mine. He hasn't posted on HW in several months. We wish him well, he's a great guy, but he hasn't been doing very well with his cancer. Walt and I kidded a lot about that stupid dulled harpoon the nurses stuck us with. But the rewards were great. Both of us could out shop our wives. And we also thought about becoming interior designers...

Love and prayers to you Walter! And all the best to that beautiful wife of yours!

Tony