Side effects after stopping Prostap injections?

Question

I have been on Prostap injections for over a year. I was on them for another year prior to this with only a few months off inbetween. I haven't felt right since coming off them. Depressed, lathargic, melancoly, tired all of the time. Is this to be expected?

Answer 1

Lots of side effects possible. Please talk to your doctor. Good luck

Answer 2

Cant answer your question, but I have had 2 injections now and I havent had a period this month. The hot flushes and night sweats are a terror, but can you tell me if you felt awful when you were on the injection, like so depressed, I have panis attacks anyhow, and I gave up smoking a month ago, could this be why I feel so awful, pain in chest, dizzy, weepy, SO bad tempered. HELP

Answer 3

I had a Prostap this year for a Myomectomy operation. I also felt depressed and tired since coming off it. It is changes you hormonely, so it is bound to effect you. It is designed to put you through the change so you'll feel all over the place at the moment. Give yourself time for your body to settle down and realise what is 'normal' again. I'd go to your doctor and let me check your HB too. I was anaemic, and this makes you feel sooo tired and down. I hope you feel better soon x

Answer 4

Here are a few of links if you'd like to learn more about the big announcement about Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) causing breast cancer. Note that breast cancer rates originally started increasing rapidly when birth control pills and now other forms of hormonal birth control also began to be widely used. Hormonal birth control methods contain estrogen and progestin, hormones that are the most widely used in HRT. This is true for The Pill, The mini-pill, The Patch, some types of IUDs, and Nuva Ring, Shots, and Rods under the skin. Levels in HRT, which have already been shown to cause breast cancer, are actually lower than that in hormonal birth control methods, on top of the fact that hormonal birth control methods are used by young healthy women with naturally occurring hormones in already normal levels. How long will we have to wait before the medical community admits to women that hormonal birth control methods are just as dangerous as HRT? I have a feeling that it will be much longer, as hormonal birth control is considered to be the "holy grail" of "women's reproductive freedom". Never mind that women are dying of breast cancer at alarmingly increasing rates since 1974 when BC pills began to be more widely used. Thirty years later, we are reaping the "benefits" of artificial hormones that are used to suppress the natural processes of the female body.

Just like menopause, the female bodily functions of ovulation and pregnancy ARE NOT ILLNESSES. Medications should only be taken when it's absolutely necessary to prevent or cure ILLNESS, and then ONLY if the benefit outweighs the risks.

If you must practice birth control, abstinence or a condom, diaphragm, cervical cap, with plenty of spermicide, when used correctly is STATISTICALLY JUST AS EFFECTIVE as hormonal birth control. Condoms also decrease your chances of contracting an STD and they don't work by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg, like hormonal birth control does. If you are pro-life and believe that life begins at conception, this last point should be of particular interest to you. Abortifacient types of birth control also include non-hormonal types of IUDs, which work exclusively by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg. Even if you DON’T have any moral objection to this, at least stop using hormonal birth control for the sake of your health!

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How many more "news flash: drug causes bad side effects" announcements before we realize that the body does NOT need drugs, except in dire circumstances. Let's leave our bodies alone and live healthy lifestyles, and our bodies will take care of the rest!

HOW HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL METHODS HAVE NOW DEFINITELY BEEN SHOWN TO CAUSE CANCER
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1025191125.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/15/gupta.breast.cancer/
HOW SOME TYPES OF BIRTH CONTROL CAN CAUSE ABORTION WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE
http://abort73.com/HTML/II-D-2-types.html
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BIRTH CONTROL AND HOW IT IS ANTI-WOMAN
http://www.the-edith-stein-foundation.com/articles.asp?col=2