Dosage and Administration of Leuprolide Acetate
The leuprolide acetate injection is chemically identical to GnRH or LH-RH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone), a hormone that arises naturally in the body. Normally, our body releases slight amounts of LH-RH and this leads to events that basically stimulate the construction of sex hormones. However, when you inject leuprolide acetate injection , the normal events that lead to sex hormone construction are interrupted and testosterone is no longer developed by the testes. This medicinal product must be injected because, like insulin which is injected by diabetics, leuprolide is inactive when taken orally. In case you were to discontinue the medication for any reason, your body would start making testosterone again. Dosage & Administration: The proposed dosing regimen is 1 mg (0.2 mL or 20-unit mark) administered as a single daily subcutaneous injection. As with other medicines administered chronically by subcutaneous injection, the injection site needs to be varied periodically