These drugs can work in different ways, but ultimately, they block or stop your body from making luteinizing hormone (LH), which it needs to make testosterone. Drugs of this type include:
You'll get these drugs by injection every month, three months, or six months. Doctors implant others under your skin.
- Buserelin (Suprefact)
- Degarelix (Firmagon)
- Goserelin (Zoladex)
- Histrelin (Vantas)
- Leuprolide (Eligard, Lupron Depot)
- Triptorelin (Trelstar)