cortisol

I took trenbolone 20 years ago that left me with permanent damage to my adrenal glands. I don't require medication like hydrocortisone or cortef but it left me feeling weak ever since I was 22 (I'm now 41). It took me 2 decades to discover that DHEA was an important hormone and that the tren...

I have been on trt for many years, last few years just not feeling well, thought it was my trt dose or estrogen, ran many blood tests and found out recently my cortisol has been consistently low, went to the Hospital and they ran the Cortrosyn stimulation test on me and my adrenals did not...

Hello I took tongkat ali and my cortisol saliva test from quest diagnostics is different. My saliva cortisol levels are on the average to high normal side now. Before they were all low. I feel stressed too. Will it go back to normal? It's been 1.5 months since I stopped tongkat ali. I tested...

Sexual thoughts: Links to testosterone and cortisol in men Sari van Anders Goldey KL & van Anders SM, 2012. Sexual thoughts: Links to testosterone and cortisol in men. Archives of Sexual Behavior. "Sexual stimuli increase testosterone (T) or cortisol (C) in males of a variety of...

Hey everyone, I've read all the other posts on this matter but I figured i'd make a new one incase I missed something. Summer of 2020 I foolishly took arimidex as it was my Dr's orders. Before adex I had all the "symptoms" of high e2 which really weren't bad at all just the typical oily skin...

Hi all. Two weeks ago I was feeling my beat when rested . I went to bed and woke the next morning with an ok blood pressure but heart rate was 124... My shbg is 66 and now I'm thinking it could be high cortisol. Can high cortisol increase shbg and if so how can I reduce cortisol ? Symptoms...

in the webinar: Cortisol, DHEA, Pregnenolone and Aldosterone diagnosis and treatment. I thought the explanation on low cortisol symptoms was excellent, simple to understand.

All the literature I've read suggests that exogenous testosterone tends to have a suppressive effect on adrenal (and potentially thyroid) activity. It makes sense -- if your body has enough hormones, you won't be generating as much pregnenolone -> other hormones (including cortisol downstream)...

I got my saliva cortisol results back last week and I’m super confused. Is this adrenal fatigue? No wonder I’ve been feeling like crap lately. @morpheuz can you shed some light on these results?

It's often said that using compound exercises is the best for boosting T. If working out regularly and also having the desire to lower cortisol etc, because one's particular physiology would benefit from that, would isolation exercises be better at increasing T? Also would use of isolation...

I am a final year med student and have been replacing my hormones for multiple years. I post this because I want to raise awareness that it is not just testosterone. One thing I frequently notice, is that many males are really fixating on testosterone (e.g. whether adding HCG or different doses...

Hey, I am a final year medical student. For years I had life-impairing fatigue due to low-cortisol issues. After doing a LOT of research, I collected a list of methods we can try to raise our cortisol naturally and therefore to help get rid of HPA-dysfunction. I share this here because I am...

I am new to this group. Thanks for having me. I want to share my journey with hormone replacement because I believe it might be useful to others. My story: I am a medical student in my last year. I replace all of my hormones. In early twenties my life was starting to go down the gutter. My...

Have been on clinic TRT after AAS abuse as a 24 year old male for 3 years. My natural levels were 691 at age 24 prior to my reckless, careless decision to hope on anabolic steroids at 24. Since then I've tried to come off several times but always ended up inevitably relapsing when the pct or...

After swapping to E.O.D injections I've had horrible insomnia. I'm exhausted but my brain wont shut off. More commonly you'll see posts about falling asleep for a couple hours then cant go back to sleep. This is very similar. Going through a lot of posts on here I've noticed others with...

Hello everyone. Following my failed attempt at restarting my natural testosterone production, I'm back on HRT in the form of 500iu HCG 3x p/w. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current issues: Always cold, especially extremities Absent Libido...

What times during the day should I take the saliva samples? I have a kit from Labcorp but theirs is keyed for taking one sample a day, while I want to do 4 samples in one day. I'm not sure when during the day to take each sample.

My primary care doc RXd some labs for me so my insurance would cover them. I will be sharing the results with Defy but am not sure I'm going to continue working with Defy (long story). One of them is the LabCorp 4-tube saliva cortisol test. I have the test kit, but it specifies doing it over...

I have this issue that started shortly before TRT but TRT like exaggerated it. I tend to wake up very early like 5-6 AM, feeling hot and energized and many times cannot fully fall asleep after that. I suspect it is some issue regarding cortisol. My TRT regiment is 20mg sustanon daily and 100...

So I've retested some tests at a different lab and there are many things that are out of range. I don't know where to start, or how to go about with treatment, or what is causing what, or if there is a direct connection between any of them and one of them is throwing the others off. I don't...

Yes, this study is in monkeys. However, the different response to T and DHT is interesting. Perhaps, this is why scrotal T cream calms some people down. Dihydrotestosterone differentially modulates the cortisol response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in male and female rhesus...

Hey, a quick background, I had a saliva cortisol test in the past. Dr Saya said 8am was low-about .25ish (max is .6) He also said noon cortisol made a huge drop. I tried some methylprednisolone. (2) 4mg tablets in the morning for 2 days. Maybe a slight boost in energy but did nothing for...

Does Having a suboptimal Thyroid cause cortisol to be secreted more?

I'm looking for information on treating hypoadrenalism, insulin resistance and muscle wasting concurrently. From one study it shows that the combination treatment of hydrocortisone and norandronolone-19-phenylpropionate, anti-catabolic effects were almost abolished (1). Moreover, I read in a...

Hi all, I am 9 weeks in. Any ideas as to why my cortisol crashed 50% and T4 dove as well? I must say that I have pretty lazy with the pregnolone... could that be it? thanks, Mike 1. Testosterone cypionate 200mg/mL, 0.3mL twice weekly, 2. Anastrozole 0.5mg/mL mixed in with the testosterone...

How does TRT affect cortisol? I had my AM cortisol checked last Thursday and it was a little high: 23.5 mcg/dL (4.0-22.0 lab range). Should I be concerned or is this basically normal? I've had trouble getting clear answers about what constitutes a high AM cortisol level and what I can do about...

I was looking for something else, when I came across this study: Estradiol stimulates cortisol production by adrenal cells in estrogen-dependent primary adrenocortical nodular dysplasia. - PubMed - NCBI It's an old study and it has been performed on a single patient with ACTH-independent...

I was looking at tests that are beyond the one's typically needed for TRT. I already get the the typical TRT tests that are recommended by Defy and most doctors. I do tend to have trouble staying asleep and in keeping my LDL chol low, but I am looking for health wellness in test in general...

Hey guys, I just want to report my experience with testosterone Propionate. I would love to hear anyone else’s experience. I had been on TRT for two years. I was on Test Cyp for 2 years. I felt better on than of first it but I would get flu like symptoms with it, fatigue, no recovery for...

Case Challenge: Chronic Opioid Use Causing Adrenal Insufficiency Sickle cell anemia patient develops opioid-induced endocrinopathy while on chronic opioid therapy. I found this interesting even without the opioid component. Lab numbers are included in the article. She was either at the low end...

Hey guys, I’m curious if anyone knows that anabolics such as oxandrolone and nandrolone effect on cortisol is? I know that oxandrolone disturbs signaling between AR and GR thus decreasing cortisol from binding to receptors but I wonder if it affects mostly muscle tissue uptake of cortisol...