- As I’ve posted, I’ve been experiencing one super hard erection almost every evening for the past couple of months. That’s a great improvement. I suspect there’s some degree of circadian misalignment. Feel like I ‘wake up’ around noon, though I actually wake up between 6 and 6:30. Even in summer here in
Florida, I use a full spectrum light box in the morning and in the evening as the sun is setting.
Been here before bro not good at all. I’ve overcome this. Maybe the below is of use to you and anyone else reading and going through he same shit…
• Stopping the PDE5s altogether.
• Try lower TRT dose ~100-125mg once a week(I also preferred 0.25mg Adex with injection to be honest). Inject and forget, don’t think about how many days has passed since last shot… “am I in optimal range” etc.
• Feel no obligation to have sex when hanging out with chicks. Have sex when you truly feel the desire to do so. I.E you’re relaxed and “in the mood”. Feeing like you want to want to have sex is bad news.
• Depending on the relationship, chat to woman about the situation. Woman your age are typically all to familiar with their own hormone issues…. If you’re open about your TRT and have a good easy-going relationship with a chick talking about your protocol issues/hormone rollercoasters and subsequent potential sex issues can remove the anxiety. Maybe even laugh about it….
Sex is obviously a huge part of our lives but taking a step back and dropping the perceived obligation and anxiety surrounding it can muster the desire again.
I was spending 1000s of dollars on PDE5s and they barely worked. The assumed reason they didn’t work was because my moderate hormone induced ED had combined with a new and more severe psychological ED stemming from performance anxiety which initiated from the moderate ED episodes. PDE5s are useless here and make things worse generally(red face, stuffy nose, headache…)
Back to basics, fuck when you actually want to, go do other enjoyable shit in the meantime.
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Great advice 
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This is a big one right here. It’s OK to not always want sex, otherwise you make it a chore in trying to force it. I think a lot of guys/people talk a lot of crap and mislead us in thinking how active we actually have to be.
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Really appreciate the input. Thanks.
The WORST is wanting to WANT to have sex. It’s definitely physiological in nature, which then is aggravated by the psychological part.
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Or needs to check prolactin levels
Prolactin is 7.
I feel you on that man, I think I am an extreme by functioning in lower end of the scale and I mean low possibly as low as in the teens E2.
Night time boners have become more and more of a regular thing now even when I felt like I over did the AI by going up to 0.5mg of arimidex.
Always felt like a odd duck reading through online forums or watching YouTube. I think some of us exist though, the dudes who literally function best around 15-25 E2.
It’s funny too because people around these parts say they rather have and deal with high E2 rather than low, I also thought I was crazy or something but give me lower end E2 over higher end E2 any day of the week. 2 years of trial and error I am done trying to fall in love with E2.
I believe, too, that there are E2 outliers; those who feel/function better on the high end or even super high, as there are those men who do well below 20, all the way down to 5.
I was reading an abstract from Sweden about estradiol levels in adolescent males and what struck me was the circadian cycle of estradiol. The lowest point is between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. The high point is between 6 and 10 a.m. My libido begins to rise in the late afternoon/early evening, with erectile function near 10 p.m. Using that as a template, I was thinking of taking a tiny dose of liquid anastrozole, .1 mg or even .05 mg before bed to see if I get morning wood. My penis stirs a little around 5 or 6 a.m. but never even half staff. And I can’t lose the weight around the middle except for the times I stopped taking testosterone. Maybe microdosing an ai 2 or 3 times a week might be beneficial.
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old thread here but i know absolutely nobody in my circuit that does well with high e2. swear its just those internet guys preaching this. in real life as soon as guys get bloated they also feel like shit and get oily and thats when they pop an aromasin or adex and they feel better.
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Not too old since I and several other members keep updating.
I was reading an abstract from 2008 measuring estradiol in males from 12 to 19 years old. The study was from Sweden, so were using a different measurement value. What struck me was that the late adolescents had an average of 32 pmol/L(21-47). I plugged that number into an online converter and it came out to be 8.7162 pg/mL, quite far from the 20 to 30 pg/mL which is supposed to be ‘ideal’ and 8 or 9 pg/mL is considered ‘dangerous’. Maybe I’m not understanding something but the numbers are the numbers. I’ve found some men’s health sites that state the range for E2 is between 10 and 40 pg/mL.
I’ve got great TT & FT from 100 mg, IM Test E, E5D but an E2(ultrasensitive) of 56. Libido/erectile function only late in the evening, no other time and no morning wood. In this study, it states the low point for estradiol is between 10 p.m. & 2 a.m. Wonder if this applies to exogenous testosterone? Shouldn’t, but wondering about my almost daily late evening erection.
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Like I said before they love to preach “when we were teens we had T in the 1500s!!!”
But then my question is what about E2? Why don’t we go by the same argument.
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I know that claim is ridiculous, I am just pointing out their picking and choosing in the argument. Our TT needs to be that theoretical 1500, but for some reason E2 needs to be higher than it was when we were teens.
If we are to argue anti aging and health and this and that, wouldn’t we want to reverse the aging process of having less T and more E2 as we age.
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You’re welcome. I’m also @tropicaldaze1950 on excelmale .
I understand that the type of testing used is different than LC/MS/MS but the teenagers in the study had what would be considered low E2 but it was normal. Even if the numbers had been different using the current ultrasensitive assay, they’d likely still be low. I take into consideration this is from aromatization of endogenous T, along with efficient pregnenolone synthesis, high levels of DHEA, optimal thyroid hormone synthesis, etc. A healthy young man. My quest is to restore erectile function and to that end, I have to consider the possibility that I need an E2 <10 pg/mL for the high level of exongenous T to ignite erections…
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This is a lively thread! Scrolling back, you posted in July that you were thinking about injecting a higher dose less frequently and on a later post, you said the highest you’ve gone was 150 mg. What’s your current protocol and how’s erectile function?
150mg T with At least 0.125mg arimidex per week. Erections way better.
Excellent! I’m back to experimenting with anastrozole. I realize, after taking .25 mg the other day and feeling lousy, that dose is too high, though 24 hours later, got an erection. I have a liquid version from Blue Sky Peptide which I can microdose. I’m presuming your ai is compounded. Great that you’ve got a combo that works!
Yes compounded.
Thanks. Indeed a tiny dose. Just highlights the wide ranging variability in what constitutes an effective dose.
Actually in my experience at leas the ultra-sensitive assay typically gives lower values than the normal test for E2
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