Hot flashes with hormone treatment -- a humorous poem about this!

[Bachisgreat]

I am currently getting Eligard injections, which cause hot flashes. For those who are also getting hot flashes, you will relate to this poem I wrote about them! A little humor helps soften the severity of what we all face.

Prostate Cancer Flash

by Marshall Wareham (copyright 2018)

When prostate cancer comes your way,

There’re many ways to treat it.

And blocking hormones with a shot

Is often used to beat it!

‘Though hormone blocking works quite well,

Some side effects ensue.

Testosterone is what you lose

And what is does for you.

The male body also makes

Some estrogen, who knew?

But when you lose testosterone

You lose that hormone, too.

This causes symptoms bothersome,

Which really are quite strange.

They’re what most women know about

When they go through “the change.”

These symptoms come at random times,

Hot flashes are the name,

Attacking you with heat and sweat,

As if you were aflame!

The flashes, when they do appear,

Annoying though they be,

From menopausal women, you

May get no sympathy!

Their reason is quite simple, they

Will surely soon explain:

It’s that you now can sympathize

With THEM about THEIR bane!

So, you must tolerate the heat;

The treatment do not spurn.

For if you stop the shots too soon,

The cancer may return.

[AlanMeyer Moderator]

Or as a woman friend told me when I started getting hot flashes, "Well Alan, this will enable you to get in closer touch with the feminine side of your personality."

[Jp2sea]

love it!