Re: décapeptyl s.r.? anyone heard of it?
From: SusieQ (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Jun 29 19:10:25 1999
Hi Emer,
Sock it to 'em baby! Don't let him feed you that crap!
BTW, if you do find a good endo specialist, would you give me the
address? My sis is moving to the UK this fall and will need one herself.
luck and love,
Susie
>
>Hey Everyone,
>
>I was at the gyny today, (with hubby) and we have decided to put me on a six
>monthly course of injections, the drug is called décapeptyl s.r.
>
>I am presuming that this drug is the same as Lupron, so far what what I have
>seen on the company'ss web site, it seems to be.
>
>I have told the doctor that I want to be sent to a specialist, which he is
>doing. i wasn't too happy with him at all, he even mentioned maybe getting
>pregnant after the first round of treatments. This was after he said that in
>past times doctors used to prescribe getting pregnant as a treatment for
>endo!
>
>This kind of annoyed me a bit, especially as my husband was with me, and I
>had already told the dr.( and had my hubby) that we had already decided that
>we would continue to wait until we were about 30 ( uhoh I am 29 already!
>lol)
>
>He also came out with other stuff that I wasn't too happy with, like he said
>that the endo wouldn't ever come back as bad as it was before the lap. and
>he kept saying that my stage 2 endo wasn't that bad.
>
>I mean, he was a nice guy and all, but sorry!,,uhuh!,,,,no thank you, plus
>the fact that I was there at 9am for my 9am appointment, and he was still on
>his rounds in the wards until 10.30am (I know this because my sister is a
>nurse in the hospital, and she was doing the rounds with him) So, needless
>to say, considering that I had a meeting at 11am I was fairly hopping mad by
>the time he saw me!
>
>Sorry to ramble on, but I am a bit depressed tonight, which is totally alien
>to me, Its kind of like, now that I have to go onto treatments, there is no
>going back.
>
>So what I would like to know, If you have got this far,,,lol,,,,and you
>aren't asleep by now,,,lol....Has anyone every used this drug?..and id so,
>what were your experiences with it?
>
>Wishing you all a good painfree night,
>
>Emer in Ireland.
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SusieQ
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