Hi all I’m currently on my first cycle. Doing 400mg test c each week over 2 jabs. Thought I’d warn future first timers of using arimidex.
I thought I had puffy nipples a couple of times and took 0.25mg of an adex pill, only twice in 2 weeks. However I felt really tired and irritable with no motivation, took an estrogen test and got my results today:
Hormone Phase Oestradiol Observation
Date : 28-AUG-2019
Men Phase X <18.4 pmol/L (Range: 41 - 159)
I see a lot of people talk about they feel best around 20-30, is this in pmol/L or another measure? Because normal range here is 41-159 on this test. Obviously I’ve crashed mine by taking adex so I must be an over responder which means I’m throwing the adex away!
Any tips or do I just continue with my test c and re check estradiol after a week or so?
Continue with your test, let yourself get to a stable place again, and retest if you’d like to. But you have already recognized low e2 symptoms without blood work, so if those symptoms go away perhaps you can skip the next round of blood work if you’re feeling better. It’s good to have the data, don’t get me wrong, but don’t think that the world will end if you get better and then choose not to get another test done.
You might be an over responder or and i did get this impression, you are only in your first two weeks or so of the cycle. If you are before four weeks then your levels have not fully come up and established themselves. So a dose of AI that would normally be correct for 400 mgs a week at any week past week 5 then that dose is too much before week four or five because your levels are still building up.
Now I still believe guys get a itchy trigger finger when it comes to estrogen suppression via an AI. Really 0.25 mgs of arimidex should have been if anything a little low for 400mgs but you could be an over responder.
Either way all you have to do is stop taking arimidex and continue with the test cypionate and your estrogen will recover in about a week then it might take another couple days to let the estrogen do what it does. Just read up on all the signs of high and low estrogen in men and self monitor, you should be totally fine and still able to get a hell of a lot of great results with this cycle. It’s not the end of the world or your cycle just a learning experience that we all have to go through.
Some how some way we need to kill the bro-science bullshit
((( that itchy nipples is a sign of high E2 when cycling.)))
95% of the guys starting TRT have itchy nipples and there E2 is fine.
Your E2 and prolactin has to be over range for over a year before gyno is even possible. OK OK if you were a fat kid growing up and already had gyno from too many pizza and coke then there is a chance you could restart the gyno regrowth sooner. Otherwise no. The true sign of over the moon E2 when cycling is your dick quits working. Deal with it. You are cycling and all your concentration should be on diet and the gym. Fucking is a luxury you may or may not get to do or you can take an AI to try and keep your E2 in check. But if you don’t know your body and how you will respond to anastrozole you have a good chance of crashing your E2.