I've never read that serms can restore size or reverse testicular atrophy... even though they raise your own lh and fsh levels... Only hcg or hmg can do this. Someone correct me if I am wrong.Anyone here try Enclomiphene to restore testicle size?
In men on TRT, a SERM by itself is usually insufficient to stimulate the HPTA into producing LH and FSH. However, a SERM used in conjunction with gonadorelin does work, potentially better than hCG.I've never read that serms can restore size or reverse testicular atrophy... even though they raise your own lh and fsh levels... Only hcg or hmg can do this. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Defy Medical has legitimately sourced enclomiphene from Tailor Made Compounding and possibly soon from Empower Pharmacy.I agree... sort of spooky, getting stuff from a online chemical supplier, "Not for human consumption"... but sounds very promising... as soon as I get past my TRT related DVT (blood clot) I will try it... not much info out there...
Makes sense that there would be some testicle pain during growth. Any thoughts on HCG and Clomid together to stimulate testicle growth?Let me clarify: the aching coincides with when the testicles are potentially growing or shrinking. Steady state is when neither is occurring. This is doubtless an oversimplification, as there's more to the process than just growing or shrinking. The episodes have occurred after starting TRT, after starting hCG, after stopping hCG and after starting GnRH while stopping hCG. This latter appeared to be a growth episode, with endogenous LH and FSH trumping the previous hCG use.
The combination may be viable. This work says that adding Clomid does help with FSH production. FSH stimulates the Sertoli cells, which account for more of the testicular volume than the Leydig cells.Makes sense that there would be some testicle pain during growth. Any thoughts on HCG and Clomid together to stimulate testicle growth?
This is purely anecdotal, but I read that damiana increases testicle size. Without my wife's knowledge, I started taking it, and about three weeks later as she was blessing me with her oral artistry, she commented "your balls are getting bigger." So I believe that it MAY help. Don't ask what brand it was, I don't recall. It was years ago.What makes them full, blood flow?
Any compounds/vitamins the body uses to make them bigger?
What was your clomid dosage?When I first used Clomid as a mono therapy after about 2 1/2 years of TRT, sperm count had been low and teste size was a little reduced. After about 2 weeks I noted the previously mentioned testicle pain/ discomfort and by about 4 weeks size was back up to full again and a few months later sperm count was well into upper normal range.
My second use of Clomid a couple of years later after full shutdown due to TRT, teste size was woefully small so I resumed the mono clomid protocol which after about a month had increased testicular volume to almost normal size.
Any thoughts on what clomid dosage I should use?The combination may be viable. This work says that adding Clomid does help with FSH production. FSH stimulates the Sertoli cells, which account for more of the testicular volume than the Leydig cells.
HCG therapy was supplemented with clomiphene citrate, tamoxifen, anastrozole, or recombinant FSH (or a combination) according to physician preference and clinical situation. The supplemental therapies were added to raise native FSH levels, as HCG does not raise FSH levels and has no activity on FSH receptors
Probably 12.5 mg EOD or daily for starters, and no more than 25 mg per day. As suggested earlier, enclomiphene is preferred if you can get it.Any thoughts on what clomid dosage I should use?
Thanks! Sorry, but I don't know what you mean by EOD.Probably 12.5 mg EOD or daily for starters, and no more than 25 mg per day. As suggested earlier, enclomiphene is preferred if you can get it.
Every other day.Thanks! Sorry, but I don't know what you mean by EOD.
Every other day.
Thanks!Every other day.
I didn't see that you ever got a direct answer to your question. Without getting into the whole hormone axis, if you think of hormones as keys and hormone receptors as locks, you can think of HCG as a "master key" that opens up several locks. When you take testosterone, your body sees how much you have in your blood stream and decides "ok, that's enough, let's turn the factory off for now" and it does so by stopping the production of other hormones that are usually the "on switch"...so your boys basically stop working. HCG can open the locks that turns them back on.What makes them full, blood flow?
Any compounds/vitamins the body uses to make them bigger?
I didn't see that you ever got a direct answer to your question. Without getting into the whole hormone axis, if you think of hormones as keys and hormone receptors as locks, you can think of HCG as a "master key" that opens up several locks. When you take testosterone, your body sees how much you have in your blood stream and decides "ok, that's enough, let's turn the factory off for now" and it does so by stopping the production of other hormones that are usually the "on switch"...so your boys basically stop working. HCG can open the locks that turns them back on.
I didn't see that you ever got a direct answer to your question. Without getting into the whole hormone axis, if you think of hormones as keys and hormone receptors as locks, you can think of HCG as a "master key" that opens up several locks. When you take testosterone, your body sees how much you have in your blood stream and decides "ok, that's enough, let's turn the factory off for now" and it does so by stopping the production of other hormones that are usually the "on switch"...so your boys basically stop working. HCG can open the locks that turns them back on.