Here’s a mystery.
Since lowering my weekly dose from 200mg to 150mg, my balls have definitely grown and dropped again. They’re literally 97% of what they were pre-TRT now. Even weirder, there’s actually a load to blow after sex again.
What the hell is going on? Did my body start making its own again or something crazy?
Your E2 dropped. High E2 in some men can cause shrinkage and low semen volume.
Makes sense. My libido came back too since lowering the dose (short of something being wrong the last few days, but gonna wait that out still).
I thought I read high e2 can keep semen volume decent? It’s the opposite?
E2 dropped, when my estrogen is high, my testicleas are pulled up tight. High E2 in men can wreak havoc on sex organs and even suppress the HPTA in men with natural testosterone. Dr. Saya the medical director of Defy Medical has seen HPTA downregulation in men with natural testosterone with estrogen in the 40’s.
The upper limit is 35 pg/mL for a reason, obese men will see some downregulation in the HPTA and is the result is manboobs and feminine features.
I have found that high blood pressure can also cause my testicles to pull up closer towards my body. I recently started taking a beta blocker and testicles have dropped and are getting in the way again.
Yeah. At least for me. I’ve been living with high or crashed E2 for years, back to back.
Testicles crawling up into your body and low semen volume are dead giveaway. When my E2 is below range I shot loads, then again I feel like shit. So there is no winning scenario here.
Weird. My e2 is like 70+ and I’m still shooting. But my shbg is crazy high so makes me wonder if I’m still low free E, if that’s even a thing.
Must be something with TT to E2 ratio. If you have high TT, E2 doesn’t matter as long as you have good ratio. So I’ve been told.
600 ng/dl TT and 70 pg/ml of E2 certainly isn’t a good one.
Yeah I’m 1500+ on total T so maybe the ratio is fine that way.
Jealous of you guys who can run TT that high, holy shit ha
I’m not, to me this means their receptors are more insensitive, I feel unstoppable in the gym at 400 ng/dL.
I’d love to feel good at less. But my total T was high even before TRT because my shbg is so absurdly high. It is what it is
And that means they don’t have to go through pain of dailing in for long time. All it takes is one shot of 200mg of test on Monday and they live their lives at best.
I would give my soul and more for that.
It took me two years to figure it out. I noticed everytime I lower the dosage and increase injection frequencies, I felt better.
Yes, and that is 90% of the guys on TRT. Frustrating, I bet. Just as some women are overly sensitive to hormones (and in their case it’s worse because of the fluctuations), so are some men.
@bigmistake2
Varying dosage is what keeps my libido high. I go from 185mg to 200mg back to 185mg (switch every couple weeks). Just enough to keep things fresh.
@meisterxx97
The best ratio I’ve found is 15-25:1 (15-25 T for every 1 E).
Last Monday I started pinning 3 times a week. Monday 3pm, Wednesday 9pm and Saturday 4am. I also once again dropped the 0.125 Adex that I was taking twice a week. I Also started supplementing 25mg of dhea. This morning I noticed that the boys were hanging and looked fuller. Oh yea and I upped the T Cyp from 160 a week to 180. Could this be from dropping the AI? And supplementing W dhea?
@gtwotwo
Usually upping the dose has a sort of euphoric effect the first week followed by 6ish weeks of not the best and then you start to feel good by week 8. That’s how it is for me at least. Sometimes dosage changes will have my libido super high during the first month or so that hormones are in flux. Even while I don’t feel great. Then libido normalizes or either drops and then returns in a month or two. Other people have different results.