I’m 45. I was on TRT for 2 years but had to quit due to hair loss and worsening of ED. It was a proper protocol with Cypionate, Anastrozole, HCG, a bit of Cabergoline - all under supervision of a very experienced prominent TRT doctor in Florida. I don’t want to get into details of my protocol as I discussed it in my other threads.
My question is whether it’s possible to take TRT recreationaly for short time with longer breaks in between? I’ve had some improvement in ED at beginning so I wonder if cycling TRT is something that anyone tried and benefited from to get a temporary boost in ED department and energy?
There are steroid cycles and then there is TRT. You can’t ‘cycle TRT’. You can cycle what are known as TRT doses of Testosterone, say 100-150mg per week of testosterone. But you would just be replacing your own test production with exogenous testosterone, shutting your HPTA down, only to have to restart it again after your suboptimal cycle.
This sounds like a recipe for hormonal imbalance, fluctuation and general misery. It doesn’t sound like something that will help with erectile dysfunction.
Did you suggest the above to your TRT doctor? What did he have to say about it?
No, I haven’t, not seeing him now. I remember there was a guy on a TRT forum sharing his experience cycling Testosterone a few moths and Cialis other months. He said otherwise he gets tolerance and nothing works long term, which was exactly my experience with both Testosterone replacement and Cialis. I guess he is the only guy I’ve heard cycling Testosterone…
There’s no building tolerance to testosterone, no known or documented cases of tolerance to Cialis for that matter. If either stop working after a short time on them, it means TRT isn’t enough on its own to circumvent your medical problem.
ED drugs Viagra and Cialis requires nitric oxide to work. So low levels of nitric oxide means that either will not be as effective or stop working altogether.
I have found in my personal experience TRT and Cialis stop working when my ferritin levels are low normal.
I know, literature says that, but personal experience of many people points to the opposite. Any ER doctor will state that any drug causes tolerance eventually. There are other sex hormones not yet discovered that are produced in the brain besides LH, FSH and whatever else. All those are shut down when T is introduced. Whatever else those hormones supposed to do in the body - not doing anymore. This may manifest as tolerance to T.
The root of my medical problem is undiscovered after 14 years of desperate attempts. So I’m looking for ways to ease phisical and mental suffering which results from this, this the cycling T attempts…In other words, it’s a desperate attempt to at least get some, temporary improvement.
Yes, it’s called “cycling steroids”, and many have been doing it for decades. But, it’s not TRT. TRT is medical treatment, not something you take 3 times a year for the GAINZ
This is a basic misunderstanding of pharmacokinetics, and how different medications and hormones act in the body. It’s not surprising that an ER doctor wouldn’t understand. Finding a doctor that understands hormones is very rare.