Good Results on Nolva?

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Currently I am using NO Trt.
I have not had blood drawn and its been since Mid OCT that I tappered and stopped Clomid. I am sure its low since my Libido is not where I want it, I’ll get it checked at 6 months on nothing and evaluate…

My question is - Who has had good results with Nolvadex ? Clomid worked for me in driving up my Total T ect… But overall didn’t feel well on even small doses…
Some here recommend Nolva , but we never see results from anybody on a NOLVA type MONOtherapy…

Discuss !

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[quote]Macmathews wrote:
Currently I am using NO Trt.
I have not had blood drawn and its been since Mid OCT that I tappered and stopped Clomid. I am sure its low since my Libido is not where I want it, I’ll get it checked at 6 months on nothing and evaluate…

My question is - Who has had good results with Nolvadex ? Clomid worked for me in driving up my Total T ect… But overall didn’t feel well on even small doses…
Some here recommend Nolva , but we never see results from anybody on a NOLVA type MONOtherapy…

Discuss ![/quote]

I was on Nolva, consistently, for almost three years.

When I started, my TT fluctuated between 159-350. I could hardly function. Within a few months of getting on Nolva at 40mg a day, my TT climbed to 900. I also had to get on adex, .25mg, twice a week. This kept my TT around 800-900 and E2 20-30 (3-70).

So lets say that was a year. Over that year, things obviously got better. I could live again. Not perfect, but better.

Over the next two years, three things happened. 1) Lowered Nolva dose to 20mg, then 10mg, then 5mg. 2) Had to raise adex dose to keep E2 at bay. 3) SHGB climbed from 20 to 44 (7-49).

I never felt 100%. I had great days, but my overall feel was just never like it was before hormone issues. The only true side effect I had was zero libido - for three years. BUT - likely from the high SHBG, things kind of leveled off and stayed decent but not great. When I tried to get off, everything crashed pretty bad. Further, even while on Nolvadex, I would have some crashes. The issue with a hormone flux, while taking adex, is your E2 gets dumped. What felt like overnight, my TT might drop from 900 to 500. Thats fine, unless you are taking 1.25mg of adex a week… which for a TT of 500, crashed my estrogen. Then TT would climb back up to 900 and all would balance again. Btw, Nolva is known to reduce the effectiveness of adex, hence the larger doses. On TRT, I don’t need any adex for TT levels as high as 1400.

This year, I switched to TRT. I am still working out the kinks, but overall, it wins. I never trusted the long-term Nolvadex treatment. There were WAY too many ups and downs. Further, because of it, I forgot was a libido was for three years.

Excellent for restarts - but I am not so sure about long term treatment… at least for me.

-Jim

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There are some studies on adherence in men prescribed Nolvadex for breast cancer. A significant percentage of male patients stop taking it because they blame it for sexual side effects.

AFAIK this is at doses of 20-40 mg a day. Side effects at lower doses may be less.

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I’m doing 20mg ED now. I tested after a couple week and results weren’t great. Total T in the low 400s and Free T at 13. E2 was crashed so stopped taking any kind of AI. I’m testing again in a couple weeks, probably 4 or 5 weeks from the last test. I have had absolutely no libido since starting nolva. It sucks. No signs of high or low E2, but we’ll see what the test says. So far I would rank nolva below Torem, clomid, HCG and Test.

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Nolvadex is a SERM and does what a SERM does. It does not have the bad side Clomid effects that some guys have. For guys with that Clomid problem, Nolvadex is the only main-stream alternative. In all cases, you try it and if it works well for you, thats all there is.

Other issues with any SERM:

  • too high a dose will create high E2 levels that cannot be managed with anastrozole
  • start with a smaller dose and check TT, fT, E2, LH/FSH after a few weeks
  • if LH/FSH are very low, SERM will not work
  • if LH/FSH are nice levels and T is up and E2 manageable, you are good to go
  • if LH/FSH high and E2 high, you must reduce SERM dose
  • you may need a AI during SERM use
  • you should have a low dose AI after tapering off and cruise on that.
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You cannot treat E2 when on a SERM the same way as you treat E2 when not on a SERM.

The E2 might read high, but since E2 is being blocked in many tissues by the SERM, the net effect may be that some tissues are starved of E2. This cannot be quantified by E2 test results in any way that makes sense to me.

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Interesting point. Some guys report that they feel OK on SERM’s. So its hard to know the implications.

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For me I had pretty good Libido on Clomid, but some say NONE on Nolva.
Do many report the same on Clomid ?

Just looking for options.

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[quote]seekonk wrote:
There are some studies on adherence in men prescribed Nolvadex for breast cancer. A significant percentage of male patients stop taking it because they blame it for sexual side effects.

AFAIK this is at doses of 20-40 mg a day. Side effects at lower doses may be less.

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I went as low as 2.5mg EOD and still expierenced no libido. It came back once I stopped completely for a few weeks.

-Jim

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[quote]Macmathews wrote:
For me I had pretty good Libido on Clomid, but some say NONE on Nolva.
Do many report the same on Clomid ?

Just looking for options.[/quote]

Hard to remember… I couldn’t stop crying when I was on Clomid :wink:

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Well damn, I was thinking about trying out nolvadex to restart HPTA but this makes it seem pretty futile.

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Ksman, it is a little contradictings as you did say in many posts that SERM does result in E2 conversion inside testes that can not be managed by AI, however here you say that you might need an AI. If what you say is the case, how is an AI going to help a SERM monotherapy in managing E2?

Also if the SERMs are working as you say they do, why dont we just crash the aromitization fully by taking 1mg Arimidex/25mg aromasin daily and then just take a SERM or HCG to get a little bit of Estrogen to counteract it so we still have some estrogen from inside the testes… I have hard time following the AIs dont manage inside the testes estrogen theory.

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I wonder if 20mg ED is too much… im doing 10mg Tamox now for my sexual sides. I want to increase it to 20 but im scared of the E2 increase.
I was thinking to do a bloodtest near at the end of 8th week of the protocol.

Sorry for bumping old topic too but any help would be good also from other users and experienced people.

@dhickey If you are still there, please tell what happened with 20mg Tamox. I wonder if it is a good idea to increase my dose from 10 to 20mg.

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SERMs were hit or miss for me. I could get decent free T levels but never really felt that great. Same with HCG monotherapy. It didn’t take large doses either. My sense is there’s not much to gain by upping the dose.

I wasted a lot of time, energy and $ trying to avoid TRT. I don’t think it was worth the effort.

If you’re dead set on going that route, I wouldn’t even test E2. Seemed like I was always chasing my tail trying to combine and AI and SERM. I would also look to optimize other hormones. DHEA is pretty simple. I would also investigate cortisol and thyroid.

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What was your issue though, steroid abuse or something? Thanks a lot for the response btw!
So SERMs didn’t work for you and you jumped on TRT?
You didn’t notice any symptomatic improvements at all?

@dhickey

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No steroid abuse. Low T, low cortisol and all the symptoms that come from those.

SERMs and HCG did a reasonable job raising T but I never felt great on them. I get a bit better levels on T, but the outcome has been night and day. Energy, mood and libido are much better. Inconsistent on SERMs and HCG.

It’s quite possible other factors are at play and it would have been possible to get similar results from SERMs or HCG. Hard to know for sure. That was a long time ago.

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