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Just my experience here. Going daily made it worse. My E2 spiked to above 60, while on a twice a week injections protocol I sleep way better. The whole small doses and more injections frequency has been proven worse for me in terms of better sleep and managing E2. Another thing that has been...

Whoever is claiming PFS doesn't exist, needs to do some research. I'm on TRT thanks to finasteride and I've been diagnosed with PFS by an endo. Please educate yourself: Home - Welcome to the Post-Finasteride Foundation - The Post-Finasteride Syndrome Foundation There have been 59 cases of...

Your E2 is fine, it does not have any relationship with your puffy face. The two renowned reasons for face puffiness would be hypothyroidism and high cortisol. Do you have any labs regarding these?

I have the same from high E2. I feel terribly bloated and constipated. On the other hand, AIs give me loose stools.

Hey @MRX, I'm curious about your post regarding masteron. I'm in the same situation as you. I can't tolerate E2 higher than 35, but at the same time I'm an over responder to AI and I get sides even from really really small doses. I was wondering if you can tell me your experience with masteron...

Fair enough, and it's really important for your married life. Next time I would test prolactin, as we know it raises when T/E2 ratio goes lower, and that's a key player in terms of libido. I recall seeing a study showing that prolactin goes higher when men are next to pregnant women for a...

If that helps you, I'm following the same pattern as you. Low E2 or high E2 I have libido almost close to 0. But I know many people claiming they have a better response with higher E2 levels. Also don't forget that there are many variables out there. No one would expect a crazy high libido after...

Sounds good, I will post updates here. Thanks.

Unfortunately the different half lives of the 2 complicates things. Also you're on a daily protocol, which should work differently than mine. But I'm just guessing, because I don't have a 24 hours hormonal test. What would you do in my case? Try to increase exemestane dosage and see if symptoms...

Hi everyone, a quick update after another blood test. These are the results at through (30 minutes before injection) on a protocol of 15 mg of T enanthate EOD + 1 mg of exemestane ED at bedtime: Total T = 792.18 ng/dL (241 – 827 ng/dL) Free T (calc.)= 31.18...

I know for sure that as soon as I stop any AIs my stools go back to normal, because that happened all the time I stopped with them. I should cut on vodka and see if that resolves it, but that would be a long term solution anyway, because I don't like alcohol in general and I was looking for an...

That's what I thought and I wanted to play it safely for now and then address it in case I need to. What would you suggest then in case this doesn't get resolved by itself?

Yeah, it has been about 10 days, but I recall having it in the past with both anastrazole and exemestane in tablet form, so it shouldn't be the vodka. Maybe it's just when E2 goes too low, but I don't have any joints pain this time and I will have to wait for labs to see if that's the case or...

I dissolve a 25mg tablet in 25ml of vodka and I drag 1 ml with a syringe everyday. Easy and quite cheap, since exemestane is sold for few euros if you have a doctor prescription in Europe. Do you know any workaround Vince? It's not that I have more bowel movements than before, it's usually one...

I started taking 1 mg of exemestane per day with my new protocol and I started feeling way better, but I will do a post about it when I'll have the next blood test update. Now, like usual with AIs, I get loose stools in the morning, once a day and that's it. I didn't change my diet and I didn't...

There is no ONE solution because it's a multi-factorial problem. Hair shedding is the first symptom of something going wrong in the body. It's the same thing as TRT. Many people don't benefit just from injecting testosterone, because there are many others underlying health issues that don't get...

Another example of serum DHT being completely irrelevant for hair loss. You may want to have a look here: The DHT hair loss myth Your thyroid looks optimal just from these values. If I was you, I would get your prolactin and DHEA levels tested, along with a salivary or urine cortisol test...

I had elevated prolactin since started with finasteride 8 years ago. Then when I dropped it, my T was 200-300 and my estradiol around 28 pg/mL, but the unbalanced testosterone to E2 ratio was raising my prolactin to around 20 ng/mL. So for me the biggest symptoms are gynecomastia and hair loss...

I highly encourage you to skip the AI if you don't need to use it. I'm skipping the AI myself for now, but didn't manage to control E2 without it yet. A word of caution was for the high levels of T and E2 and that would have concerned me on the long run, but that's something you have to decide...

A TRT roundtable fan? You can check the attachment, as I don't think I'm allowed to share other forums links And you can do your conversion here, if you need to, that will show you that's not even 3k on 500 mg per week: Testosterone conversion to nmol/L, ng/mL, ng/dL, ng/100mL, ng%, ng/L...

You can get a rough idea visiting the T nation forum. You were on a high dose of HCG, a dose that would have skyrocketed my total T past 2000. Amateur body builders are usually not competing, they just do some photoshoot or they are active on social media. A 3k total T is pretty much the...

Mate, I'm not trying to win any argument here. I'm on this forum to learn and to share my experience, like the vast majority of us. This a hot topic at the moment in the TRT community and a key element for a success or a failure of a protocol, so I think it's worth discussing it in a polite way...

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but there are a lot of practitioners and PhDs these days (Raymond Peat just to name one) who says a healthy thyroid has a TSH sitting at around or below 1.0. I basically have the same thyroid numbers as IamNotShepard and Dr. Saya told me my thyroid is perfectly...

You're contradicting yourself here. Do we have or not studies to prove that? Bear in mind that medical science has been based on empirical observation for centuries as they didn't have blood tests. Now, the empirical observation is telling us that we don't have men running a natural total T...

You're right in terms of compounds used by people on steroids, I never knew one doing only testosterone. On the other hand, I think we should stick to what a human body is supposed to have on natural real examples of healthy people. If there's no one hitting 2000 ng/dL of total T or 90 pg/mL of...

Alright, I'll get it tested once for all next time. Thanks.

As said before, I'm in Europe and I don't have access to some of the test you guys have in US. Regarding E2, I tested it with both methods and they are about the same, so I won't spend extra money on LC/MS. Also, I recall a post on the forum showing how actually the standard E2 test was more...

That's because you had a spike of serum DHT, which is responsible for masculinization

You're kind of a borderline patient, being close to juicing doses (400 mg per week could be considered a conservative steroid cycle), so obviously with such high total T numbers I think you can afford to go higher with your E2, but it's just peculating here. Just keep in mind that HCG...

I'll leave this here as well in case someone is interested: "The widespread assumption that androgen levels are in general elevated in bald-trait men must therefore be rejected" —Knussman et, al. (1992) "It is well-known that the androgenic alopecia (AGA) patients’ blood concentration levels...

Problem is hair loss is a multi-faceted issue and one of the first symptoms something is going wrong within the body. Reason why most of the treatments fail is that they tend to cure one of the consequences, not the root of the problem, which is hormonal. The best example is the DHT accumulation...