Curious. Is it just the fact you can orgasm? Or is there missing arousal too? Like can you get erection etc?
A lot of guys on blast and cruise report diminished sexual parameters, but reducing their hormones to a normal level corrects the problem.
Would you recommend taking the 200 today and doing bloods tomorrow? Or waiting?
Agreed it is. But… only if you reinforce to yourself this will be permanent. It’s not. It’s common with hormone imbalance. Your normal libido and performance will return.
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I’m officially off T. Last dose was 12 days ago now. Happy to report some normal “function” is back as of today, albeit with a little difficulty.
What I got out of it:
Good:
- Gained muscle. I really did see a result in the gym.
Bad:
- Gained 25 lbs
- Higher BP
- Bigger sensitive nipples (hopefully will go away)
- Sexual disfunction (hopefully restored soon)
Probably a symptom of high E2. Likely a symptom of a bad protocol. But I did realize I started for the wrong reasons. Just wanted to use T to shed weight. Not quite designed for that.
Also, as luck would have it, I couldn’t see my normal doc, and his partner in the clinic ran labs and discovered I have an insulin resistance. She also recommended changing my SSRI to assist in weight loss.
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You may want to revisit TRT at some point if you’re truly low T.
Low T definitely has been showed to affect cardiovascular function.
And if you want to lose weight, don’t eat so much.
No you’re not, the testosterone is still in your system and will take weeks to clear out.
In the coming weeks your testosterone will become zero, then you’ll be off T.
Appreciate you trying to make me feel bad or scare me or something, but let me rephrase - I am done with my protocol.
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I’m not trying to make you feel bad, I’m trying to get you to understand your situation. Once T hits zero, your HPTA should become functional again.
None of this should scare you, I went through the same thing and it wasn’t really that bad.
Sorry to chime in but you need to stop eating that much and lose the fluff. If you have no discipline and patience to do so thats another issue you need to work on. Fix your crappy diet and eating patterns and get leaner. You will feel 10x better. LBS don’t go up if you don’t eat more then you burn, thats as simple as that and don’t care what anyone else says IIWII. A lot of your problems will go away or get a lot milder if you just lose the fluff and improve your CV health. These days most of the people prefer working backwards and its sad and funny at the same time.
Get a good plan and execute. And once you get rolling, you can start thinking about proper blood work and further plans. There are no shortcuts.
Wish you nothing but the best. Start working!
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Would clomid help restart natural production? After say 90 days on trt?
This is usually the case and your may not even need any medical intervention at all to restart the HPTA.
I know I am lifting my butt off. Diet damn good and trying to get better sleep. Libido is just not there and having sex would probably help.
Side note,
Can we stop demonizing AIs.
If you have E2 problems, an AI is elegant and effective.
Bossa and other dumbasses just need to be snowflakes with unique advice to try attract a crowd.
It’s hard not to considering all the studies on AI usage only show harm and no benefit.
A degree of caution is needed when recommending AI’s and should always be a last resort.
What is the alternative?
Please link me studies showing harm.
Patients and methods: This prospective substudy of the ATAC trial assessed BMD changes in postmenopausal women with invasive primary breast cancer receiving anastrozole (1 mg/d).
Conclusion: Anastrozole is associated with accelerated bone loss over the 5-year treatment period.
How do I put a facepalm emoji?