I always wonder if the benefits you and I feel from this are just temporary dopamine spikes and not related to the T actually working at all. Just speculating, I really am at a loss at this point.
I was wondering if it could be because when you stop thereās a bit of LH and FSH that are starting back.
My late father was a WW 2 combat veteran. 27 y.o. In a conversation about sex, he told me when he was about to be sent back into combat, he had an overwhelming desire to get laid and off he went to some hooker. Even the possibility of death the next day didnāt ākillā his erection.
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Best decision of my life. Still use PDE5 here and there, but able to go even have sex multiple times a day.
Got hard headed a few weeks ago and went back to 140mg for like 2 weeks, again the same old problems started. Dropped back down to 100mg again and improvement is coming on again.
When I dropped my dose for a week and then went 80 at first then 100, plenty of days I didnāt even touch PDE5 and would get erections just laying there with my GF. Night/morning time erections are also a norm now.
Men using ED drugs are 69% less likely to develop Alzheimerās, and reduced risk of heart attacks.
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I will keep looking into it. Something else I notice is I am able to tolerate PDE5 way more when going lower dose T.
Thatās what @roscoe88 and @equel have found; a large dose, i.e. 300 mg, every 2 weeks. As itās metabolized, E2 starts to rise during that time and for a few days, experience good libido and erections. @dextermorgan has stated that friends on 200 mg weekly, regardless of injection frequency, have great libidos and erectile function.
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Great to hear. What is your dosing on 80/100mg? Once/twice a week?
Think I am in the same camp. As soon as my E2 goes higher end, I have no libido or penis it feels like.
Reminds of this recent video I a saw
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50mg twice a week because I am using 1/2 insulin needles to the delts.
Look into Proviron. It improves mood and sex drive by bringing DHEA up, some worthwhile studies done on it with 25mg a day. Interestingly does not affect free test for guys not on TRT. Can also be used with HCG (go off the test) to create sperm for guys that become sterile on TRT.
Nice, I assume at that dose no AI required? HCG?
Been in your shoes ā¦
Here is the usual response you will get:
- Check your E
- Check your prolactin
- Check Vit D and sHBG
I would add check DHT
I have only had a high libido when I was very young (and dumb) and took pro hormones that elevated my androgens like crazy while I took Arimistane (that bottomed out my E).
My conclusion is I need a vast gap between my T and E for me to have a super high libido ā¦ but thatās my personal chemistry. Everyone is different.
I am going to try To run TRT with a very low dose mast or proviron. Some will say this is ill advised but I am going to start low and see how it works
Yeah just Solo T.
Interesting but I feel like at the very end he contradicts himself a bit, or am I wrong?
I realize that you posted this months ago, but what time of day do you inject, and are you still on this protocol?
Yes I still take it. I take it before bed. I reduced dose to 1.5iu as my IGF-1 was over range. Too much for a long term protocol can be a bad thing as wel.
Do you have naturally low igf, or just trying to optimize?
It can just also be too much androgens in general throwing your system into overdrive in where libido is no longer priority. Just my opinion.