Prostate cancer treatment ended

I don't know your injection dose (Decapeptyl comes in 4 week, 12 week, and 24 week doses). So you're on treatment until that period expires after the last injection, i.e. when your next injection would have been due if you hadn't stopped.

From that point, you start the recovery from hormone therapy. Nothing happens for many months, because the drug effect continues. Somewhere around 9-12 months, your Testosterone should return, and it usually does this relatively quickly, over a couple of months. It can be useful to have Testosterone level added to your PSA tests while you are waiting for your Testosterone to return to its stable level. If you still have your prostate, you expect your PSA to rise a bit when this happens, so it's useful to know when it happens. It's also useful to know for the purpose of understanding your recovery and side effects.

I was on zoladex three monthly. My last injection was Feb 2020. By November I had still not recovered much testosterone, on Christmas day I had my first erection and everything has been fine since. So yes it takes a long while to recover from HT, but the recovery is quite abrupt.

Dave,

that’s encouraging….I hate wishing my life away but I can’t wait until I am at the end of this ‘treatment’. I’m not giving up though and will continue to do everything I can to keep my QOL at an acceptable level. Just about to have a new kitchen fitted(not by me!) and been moving some cupboards into the garage. I even struggle to lift an 800mm empty wall carcass😟

Derek