Rebounding from estrogen crash

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Hey guys, im new here and to trt so looking for some advice. Started on trt around 2 month ago and it wrecked me. Test before was around 450 but started to try to help chronic fatigue that nothing else fixed. I’ve done sleep studies, tried thyroid supplements, sinus surgery, this was the last option. Pre trt test was 450 (its dropped around 10 points a year for the past 3 years) and estrogen was 20.

Dr put me on 160 mg test cypionate once a week with .5 anastrazol 2 times a week. Felt like superman the first half of the first 2 weeks then went back to feeling exhausted for the 2nd half of the week but the brain fog i had completely disappeared and libido was through the roof. The next 2 weeks I felt pretty meh or even bad. Week 4-5 Split the dose to every 3.5 days and felt horrible with no libido. Did labs and stopped anastrazol because I had all the signs of low estrogen.

Result came back as 1100 tt 276 ft and <5 estradiol previous

(Previous blood work at the full 160mg once a week showed that I dropped down to 770 tt and around 220 ft 2 days after we didnt check estradiol because it was just my yearly checkup bloodwork if that means anything nurse friend said I metabolize it pretty fast)

Talked to the dr and he said continue with my dose and saud to cut back to .5 anastrazol per week but I could cut it out if I wanted to see what happened so i stopped. Started to feel a bit better around middle of week 7 but no libido. Week 8 started to feel a bit better then I got sick so ebd of the week is not a good measure. In the middle of week 9 now and still just feel just blah nothing gets me excited and i just feel like I’m walking around in a video game. I am wondering how long I can expect to feel bad for of if there’s any fix. My dr doesn’t seem very concerned with my symptoms but I just want to feel good again. I’m going to do bloodwork again soon to check estradiol levels once everythinglevels out but is there anything I can do to help myself get back to normal feeling?

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All you can do is get bloods and wait.

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I did one of those online health things just to try testosterone to see if it could fix my problems and am less than impressed, I feel like they just hit me with the one size fits all program and don’t really give a shit after they get paid. I can try a full dose and see what that does for me.

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It sucks the clinics feel like they are just in it to get your money and my new primary care dr wasn’t willing to do it because I’m “in the range” didnt matter that I had to take a nap most days and stopped working out because it just drained me. I didn’t figure it would be a cure all but I hoped it would give me some more energy and the ability to work out and feel good again. Fortunately since it had a good effect the first couple weeks my primary care dr said she would take over the trt so at least it wont cost as much.

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What everybody said about the AI out of the gate and on that low T is right. I just write to say, the first time I had a similar effect it was, frankly, scary to me. Then I got kind of paranoid and anxious about getting normal, maybe that had other mental effects. A holy shit moment. But this will get better and you just have to let it play out. It can be kind of tricky in some cases too (mine was high e2, but not really, just deca finally got to me, even with high T base). Some with high e2 overreact and then crash it. Or with low e2, I know what I would have been tempted to do if were you. But just hang in there without the AI and it will normalize soon I am sure. For God’s sake, my wife knows when I’m upping my T, and that is a plus of TRT.