I’ve had an ongoing issue with compartment syndrome symptoms when I run. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t run anymore. Now that the anastrozole is probably out of my system, I’m wondering if that was the cause of my symptoms. I’m going to gradually work my way back into running, and see what happens.
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Give your joints a chance to recover.
I haven’t really had any joint issues. Only the compartment syndrome symptoms, which aren’t in my joints.
Sorry…thought that was knee shit
A quick update on the issue I posted a few days ago…
The following day, the sensitivity around my nipple started to subside. And since then, the hard “tissue” has mostly gone away. The area is no longer sensitive.
One thing I’ve picked up on in the last week, is that it seems like I’m tired every other day. The day when I inject in the morning, I seem to be more tired, than the day I don’t inject. Not sure if my body is still adapting to the new eod injections, but I never noticed being more tired on a specific day, when injecting every 3.5 days.
How much more tired exactly? How much of a difference?
Enough of a difference that I noticed it enough to take note of it for about the last week. If it were only one day, I wouldn’t have thought any more about it. But when I noticed it happened about 3 times, every other day, it seemed like more than a coincidence.
Let me put it this way…
On the days I wasn’t tired, I got home from work, and was motivated to go work out. On the every other “tired” day, I got home from work, and wanted to plop myself down on the couch to take a nap.
Long post warning…
I used to enjoy running. Not what you would call an avid runner, but a few 5ks a year, and running a few miles, a few times a week. Then maybe 5 years ago I started developing chronic compartment syndrome symptoms in my lower legs when I ran. A few minutes into a 5k, my lower legs(especially my right leg) would built up pressure and pain. The pain felt like doing calf raises way past failure, kind of pain. And it wouldn’t go away unless I stopped running. If I continued through the pain, my foot would go numb and I’d have no control over it. These symptoms never went away for the 4 or 5 years that I had them, so I stopped running.
That takes me up to now, when I’ve come off of anastrozole. I wanted to see if the anastrozole was the cause of my symptoms, so I did a treadmill test today. I went for about 35 minutes, ranging from a level 3(walk) to 4.5(jog), 7-8( brisk run) to a level 10 for about a minute near the end. At no time during the entire 35 minutes, did I have any of the compartment syndrome symptoms.
My legs are a little sore due to my lack of running, but no lower leg pain.
I’m going to try to go for a few light runs outside this week, to see how it goes.
One side effect of anastrozole is musculoskeletal issues.
I’m cautiously optimistic that I may be able to get back into running.
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This is great news! I’m confident the fatigue issue will subside within a few weeks. You are already reaping the benefits of no AI. If the fatigue doesn’t subside there are other things we can try.
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In case you are still having doubts!
Trt hasn’t cured my ADD. Do you have a shorter video?
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Hope you don’t mind me joining in on your thread, but I am doing the same thing, stopping the AI. Really cool to hear about the improvements you are seeing with the compartment syndrome.
2 weeks without AI for me. The main symptom I’ve had, that kept me on AI was irritability and a short temper. In general I’m a very mellow dude, so it when this happens it is obvious. After about a week away from the AI’s I definitely got irritable, but knowing it was coming and acknowledging it internally kept me from acting out (too much), though it was a struggle at times. Now after 2 weeks that part seems to have subsided, which is a relief, for sure. I have noticed a decrease in libido, which is a little concerning. I’m hoping that is temporary also.
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Haha. Same, same
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I’ve noticed that my libido is inconsistent right now. It hasn’t been 3 weeks yet, since I’ve gone to EOD and dropped the AI. Hopefully this will all level out soon.
@Gossamer - cliff notes: you’d be nuts to take an AI
If you want to learn why, you’d have to watch the video because the video explains why. Not something that can be explained in 5 minutes.
Me neither. I was really hoping for it, but alas still very distracted.
In a nutshell, estradiol is a paracrine hormone that is made in the tissue. There are different levels of it in different parts of the body, the skeleton, and the brain. When you are measuring serum levels, you are only seeing a very small portion of a much larger picture. Only the part the is leaking out of the tissue into the serum (very different from testosterone). If you take an AI you don’t know where you’re blocking it. Maybe just a bit in one area of tissue and maybe all of it in the brain! You absolutely don’t want to ever use that stuff.
The video is the best video we currently have on the subject.
Since I dropped my AI and switched to eod injections, will this have any affect on blood pressure?
For me, dropping the AI did correlate with an increase in blood pressure. But I don’t think most guys experience this problem.
I went for a run outside for the first time in a while. About 5 minutes into the run, I got the familiar pain, and my foot went numb.
What the fuck. So much for the theory that anastrozole caused those symptoms.
Fuuuuuck!