![]() ![]() I was prescribed 1 mg/day – a total of 30 mgs each month … when men being giving Lupron for prostate cancer only got 7.5 mg per month. In my case, Lupron suppressed my system so severely that I was unable to produce any eggs – and so several IVF cycles had to be cancelled due to “suppression from Lupron”. During these years, I used 9.5 months of daily Lupron. I was told “if you want IVF you must use Lupron”. In my fertility clinic’s 1990 brochure, Lupron “is only prescribed to persons with certain diagnosis” but in the 1991 brochure this became Lupron “is widely prescribed”. I would later learn that the Director of this fertility clinic was a lead Lupron investigator, a Lupron speaker and a Lupron opinion leader for TAP/Abbott Laboratories (now known as AbbVie). My ‘healthcare providers’ variously reassured me that these symptoms were normal and temporary, or coincidental, and “nothing to do with Lupron”, or viewed as hypochondriacal. I began almost immediately to experience severe and crushing bone pain– as if my bones were in a vice. My feet began to constantly ache and throb. I had GI problems – anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and bowel problems. There were other odd symptoms – such as tinglings that ran up one side of my spine to my entire scalp always only on one side at a time, numbness of my fingers and toes, abnormal heart beats and rapid heart rates, and bad headaches. ![]() I was prescribed daily Lupron injections, and was told that it was “safe and effective and had been used successfully throughout the world”. Within weeks of starting, I had severe hot flashes, insomnia and was in a “fog”, and for the first time in my career was placed out of work on temporary disability due to “intensive medical therapy, Lupron”. I began Lupron – leuporelin – in January 1989. I was working as a registered nurse. I needed treatment for endometriosis and infertility. But it can be hard to know at times whether the greater problems stem from greedy companies or cowboy doctors who dish these drugs out in huge doses for IVF related and other reasons and continue to do so even when things are going obviously wrong. This group of drugs can cause seriously bad outcomes for some women. Lynne’s story which dates from the late 1980s is still being repeated today with drugs like Goserelin – Zoladex. Lupron is leuporelin – one of several Relins. Editorial Note: This post is by Lynne Millican, the founder of Lupron Victims Hub. ![]()
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