Description
Lupride Depot (Leuprolide Acetate) 11.25 mg Online
Lupride Depot (Leuprolide Acetate) is a man-made hormone. It is used to treat the symptoms of prostate cancer. This medicine may also be used to treat children with early onset of puberty. It may be used for other hormonal conditions. Leuprolide is used to treat the symptoms associated with advanced prostate cancer. Leuprolide injection is used in children 2 years of age or older to treat central precocious puberty (CPP; a condition causing girls [usually younger than 8 years of age] and boys [usually younger than 9 years of age] to enter puberty too soon, resulting in faster than normal bone growth and development of sexual characteristics).
Leuprolide is used alone or with another medication (norethindrone) to treat endometriosis (a condition in which the type of tissue that lines the uterus [womb] grows in other areas of the body and causes pain, heavy or irregular menstruation [periods], and other symptoms). Leuprolide is also used with other medications to treat anemia (a lower than a normal number of red blood cells) caused by uterine fibroids (noncancerous growths in the uterus). Leuprolide injection is in a class of medications called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists. It works by decreasing the number of certain hormones in the body.
Leuprolide injection comes as a long-acting suspension is injected intramuscularly (into a muscle) by a doctor or nurse in a medical office or clinic and is usually given once a month or every 3, 4, or 6 months (Lupron Depot-3 month, Lupron Depot-PED-3 month, Lupron Depot-4 month, Lupron Depot-6 Month).
