No idea. My libido was pretty good from the T alone but it took a while.
Well I got prescribed. 50mg cream every day. Plan is not to take that unless I’m traveling, I have follow up with that doc in 3 months to assess symtoms and 6 months will check bloods. If I can convince that doctor to switch to injections then maybe I’ll actually use what they give me. Btw it’s not the transscrotal cream
Still handy to have an actual prescribing doctor though. Now I’m not on my own with this
What kind of creme is it? Mine wasn’t specifically prescribed for scrotal either but that’s what I and a lot of others do
50mg a day is too low probably. 100mg minimum IMO. I’m at 150, lots of people are at 200
Absolutely, when I corrected my iron deficiency, even though TT and FT were on the bottom end, erections were present and were better than they had ever been on TRT with optimal testosterone with the iron deficiency.
@ncsugrad2002 it’s some sort of cream that they make at the compounding pharmacy. They said to apply it in areas with thin skin and low fat like underside of elbows ect. 50 mg is the lowest dose so I’m not even gonna bother trying it at this point. Just gonna keep it and tell the doc it’s not helping much in 3 months. The biggest thing for me is that now I have a doctor to help monitor things as opposed to having to figure all that out on my own.
@systemlord how long after taking iron did you notice improved erections? I’m a week into taking 150mg elemental iron EOD and haven’t noticed a difference there
It took me a couple months to build up iron levels in the blood
Sounds like the scrotum fits the bill to me, lol. I think if/when they get you up to 100mg/day then it’s worth trying. I’d still do scrotally to get the most out of it.
Morning erections seem to be gone now. Hoping this has to do with the iron deficiency and will correct itself in time
@systemlord not sure if you saw my question earlier but how long into taking iron did you notice improved erections?
A couple of weeks.
@systemlord was it a gradual improvement over a few months that started at 2 weeks or were they improved greatly by 2 weeks?
You can’t expect my experience to reflect yours, our bodies work very differently. I only need 7mg daily, I can’t say the same for most on these forums. I hyper respond to everything, a little goes a long way.
I notice great erectile strength when my TT was in the 200’s (3 weeks) right before the cypionate was all out of my system, erections returned when I scored a 97 ng/dL and iron 80, ferritin 82.
@systemlord just reading into the iron supplements more and I’m seeing that 2-5mg per kg of weight per day is recommended. I’m at 97kg so roughly 200mg elemental iron every day essentially. Why would my doctor prescribe 150mg every other day? Isn’t that not enough?
When you take an iron supplement, the effects last up to 48 hours hence the every other day dosing. As far as dosing, you have to start somewhere. This process is trial and error to find what works best for you.
I think I’m gonna double it up, even the packaging on the iron supplements says take 150mg daily
These supplement companies make money be selling product, so their recommendations are may not match up with normal daily dosing. For instance my vitamin C dosing recommendations says I can take 500mg twice daily, yet daily recommendations for men is 65-90mg.
If vitamin C intake exceeds 180mg, your absorption decreases to 50%.
@markis655
There’s a new research showing taking iron every other day is better than every day. Not everyone has bought into that though. I took 200mg/day (106mg elemental iron twice a day) with vitC and L-lysine and it took about a month to notice anything and about 2-3 months for ferritin to go up 30ish points.
@systemlord what are the units on your iron you mentioned earlier, you said 80 iron 82 ferratin I just wanna compare to where I’m currently at.
If all goes well I’m hoping to have full erections again once my anemia is fixed. Right now I’m still less girth and length and overall strength even with Cialis 5mg daily. Maybe 50mg Viagra would produce a full erection, I haven’t had to test it yet but when I get a chance with a nice girl I’ll have to try that.
Morning erections are gone. Erections are still a bit stronger but I bet thats the daily Cialis. @dextermorgan I’m tempted to try a small AI dose to see if that’ll help the morning erections. Any advice that isn’t doing that?
Had morning erections from week 1 to week 4. After that they disappeared. I know the whole e2 management is becoming a thing of the past but it could be worth a shot.
@markis655
The only way to know is to try. Start .125 up to .20 be careful because for me it seems like it has no effect until I one day crash out of nowhere.
I would get a razor blade and a milligram scale so you know exactly how much you are taking.
