Medical Issues - TRT Related?

[HanksterAce]

I started TRT 6 weeks ago. The treatment also includes HCG and Anastrozole.

About a week after treatment started - I came down with a flu that ran rampant through our office. The flu converted to bronchitis where I was treated with amoxicillin for 10 days. I continued TRT while taking the antibiotic. I noticed my acute cough would subsided for a couple days after my Test C shot. After a couple days, the cough would start to flare again until I took my next TEST C shot.

My antibiotics are now complete, but I'm left with a dry subacute post infectious cough that doesn't want to go away.

My questions are: Does TRT change the way antibiotics work in the above scenario? Does TRT impact or stress the respiratory system? Should I cease TRT while being treated for this condition?

Thank you.

 

[CoastWatcher]

I started TRT 6 weeks ago. The treatment also includes HCG and Anastrozole.

About a week after treatment started - I came down with a flu that ran rampant through our office. The flu converted to bronchitis where I was treated with amoxicillin for 10 days. I continued TRT while taking the antibiotic. I noticed my acute cough would subsided for a couple days after my Test C shot. After a couple days, the cough would start to flare again until I took my next TEST C shot.

My antibiotics are now complete, but I'm left with a dry subacute post infectious cough that doesn't want to go away.

My questions are: Does TRT change the way antibiotics work in the above scenario? Does TRT impact or stress the respiratory system? Should I cease TRT while being treated for this condition?

Thank you.

Exogenous testosterone is unrelated to how well an antibiotic is/is not absorbed by your system. Interrupting your therapy would be of no value to your respiratory infection and would upend any progress you are making in overcoming hypogonadism.

 

[HanksterAce]

Thanks.

Has anyone heard if exogenous testosterone affects the respiratory system? I'm still curious why my coughing subsides for 48 hours after injection.

 

[Vince Carter]

parasympathetic response comes to mind but I would echo everything CoastWatcher said...HRT has nothing and no bearing on your illness(es). I too have had some nasty maladies such as these and I remember a persistent naggy dry cough as being the last thing to resolve much after I felt well again.