Good afternoon,
I’m 42y/o and I’m 6 weeks into my TRT. 160mg Test Cyp divided into 2 injections in Mon/Thu. They prescribed arimidex and told me to take .25mg 3x week or as needed. I was planning to wait until m 8 week labs to see where my numbers are in test alone before taking anything besides the test. I don’t want to try chasing numbers with more variables in place.
2 weeks ago my nipples started being itchy and today they’re just painful…I had to stop my 3mile run short because they were hurting. Other than that I haven’t noticed any increased Estrogen side effects.
Would you guys recommend waiting it out 2 more weeks till my labs are done or start taking adex? I can also get Aromasin if that’s a better option.
I would start your AI at minimum dosage and see if that resolves the issue; best to nip gyno symptoms in the bud (pun somewhat intended).
Your labs may show high e2, or it might be perfectly in range - neither one means you are or aren’t expetiencing high e2 symptoms.
You should wait to see your labs and adjust the dosage and see if you can do without the AI altogether.
I got warm painful breast and never got anything resembling gyno, it happened after dosing changes only.
That’s probably too much AI to take 3x weekly and if you’re an AI over-responder, well if you thought low-T was bad, you haven’t seen nothing yet.
I wouldn’t, since any AI you take will be fast acting and changes in e2 happen quicker than changes in TT. Say you have labs in two weeks, if you took a small AI dose after each injection for the two weeks leading up to those labs, you’d get a good idea of where TT/e2 are at and how you feel at that level.
If you were talking about changing anyting with your test dose or frequency I would hold off until after your labs are pulled