Testicles “retracting” during sex?

[Mr S]

My testicles have maintained their size for the past 5 weeks, at least best I can tell. Perhaps it takes longer for them to shrink.

Another unusual surprise is that, after stopping HCG, my semen volume is now back to normal. Which is to say that my semen volume was much less while I was on HCG, and it's now back to a normal amount. I've read many reports of HCG increasing semen volume, so I was surprised here as well.

Likewise. My semen volume has decreased on HCG. The consistency got thicker as it had become like water though I was expecting a lot more volume or at least what it used to be before TRT. I use pregnyl.

 

[xqfq]

Very interesting that you had the same thing happen. I wonder if the retraction is somehow caused by or related to the decrease in volume.

 

[Mr S]

Very interesting that you had the same thing happen. I wonder if the retraction is somehow caused by or related to the decrease in volume.

Maybe. The whole thing is that HCG is supposed to reverse what’s been caused by exogenous T. I was only 12 weeks on Cypionate, took 3 months off, restart TRT with HCG and I noticed these changes.

 

[xqfq]

I have another update on this. Due to COVID-19, I've cut both my testosterone dose down and eliminated HCG. I wanted a very simple protocol with little risk of health downsides over the next several months, and I'm willing to be slightly more sluggish, etc in return. My current COVID-19 protocol is 120mg testosterone in 17mg daily injections subQ. My protocol most recently before this was 168mg/week test-e in daily doses subQ alongside 500IU HCG E3.5D.

Interesting, just like in my update of dropping HCG when on 150mg/week test-e, my testicles have fixed themselves. They now hang lower, seem to be larger, and my ejaculate is relatively strong again. They no longer retract into my body during sex.

I wonder what could be going on. Some possibilities off the top of my head? --

1. Something about my estradiol being lower now and that changing how my testicles hang? Or how the muscle that pulls on my testicles acts?

2. Maybe my total testosterone on 120mg/week is so low that I'm getting LH/FSH activity. Is this possible? I took 120mg/week once, when I first started TRT, and my levels were: TT 447 ng/dL, RIA free T 8.18 ng/dL (Range: 5.00 - 21.00)". That was with 250IU HCG Monday and Friday as well. My pre-TRT TT was around 400 and my free T was around 9-10 on that same scale.

3. Maybe when I have more androgens/estrogens I'm more aroused / my erection / etc is so much stronger that it "pulls" my testicles up. I do notice my erections are much more like they were pre-TRT now - they happen, but they're not instant. I am getting some morning wood.

#2 is interesting to me. I wonder if it's more possible to get some LH/FSH with the small daily injections. When I was doing 120mg/week before I was doing MWF and I did feel my testicles ache between HCG doses.

 

[Rock H. Johnson]

I have another update on this. Due to COVID-19, I've cut both my testosterone dose down and eliminated HCG. I wanted a very simple protocol with little risk of health downsides over the next several months, and I'm willing to be slightly more sluggish, etc in return. My current COVID-19 protocol is 120mg testosterone in 17mg daily injections subQ. My protocol most recently before this was 168mg/week test-e in daily doses subQ alongside 500IU HCG E3.5D.

Interesting, just like in my update of dropping HCG when on 150mg/week test-e, my testicles have fixed themselves. They now hang lower, seem to be larger, and my ejaculate is relatively strong again. They no longer retract into my body during sex.

I wonder what could be going on. Some possibilities off the top of my head? --

1. Something about my estradiol being lower now and that changing how my testicles hang? Or how the muscle that pulls on my testicles acts?

2. Maybe my total testosterone on 120mg/week is so low that I'm getting LH/FSH activity. Is this possible? I took 120mg/week once, when I first started TRT, and my levels were: TT 447 ng/dL, RIA free T 8.18 ng/dL (Range: 5.00 - 21.00)". That was with 250IU HCG Monday and Friday as well. My pre-TRT TT was around 400 and my free T was around 9-10 on that same scale.

3. Maybe when I have more androgens/estrogens I'm more aroused / my erection / etc is so much stronger that it "pulls" my testicles up. I do notice my erections are much more like they were pre-TRT now - they happen, but they're not instant. I am getting some morning wood.

#2 is interesting to me. I wonder if it's more possible to get some LH/FSH with the small daily injections. When I was doing 120mg/week before I was doing MWF and I did feel my testicles ache between HCG doses.

Interesting, I upped my HCG by 50iu for COVID-19 as estrogen is intimetely involved with a healthy immunesystem, likely because of this men are more susceptible to it then women....even if this logic is wrong I have no sides from it.

 

[Nelson Vergel]

Very interesting that you had the same thing happen. I wonder if the retraction is somehow caused by or related to the decrease in volume.

Yes, it is. It used to happen to me back in the days before I started hCG.

 

[M.J]

I guess increase hcg, they are doing good with here with 500 EOD

 

[Nelson Vergel]

I have noticed that taking Ed medications (any of them) along with hCG really enhances the effect of hCG on normalizing testicular size. Also, nitric oxide boosters seem to have an additive effect.

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[Stylo]

Mine would do the same thing, and microdosing HCG at 150iu EOD is a good to way to make em hang back down. Two large doses will most certainly spike your E levels and you could have a reaction to the fluctuations, this is why HCG is hard for some guys to manage or work with. Split your doses.

 

[xqfq]

Mine would do the same thing, and microdosing HCG at 150iu EOD is a good to way to make em hang back down. Two large doses will most certainly spike your E levels and you could have a reaction to the fluctuations, this is why HCG is hard for some guys to manage or work with. Split your doses.

I may try something like that when I re-add HCG in the future. The problem for me is that HCG requires refrigeration, and so daily usage limits my independence.

Thanks for the cialis tip Nelson. I will try that soon. I get leg cramps that make it difficult to sleep when I try cialis but I've heard they go away with time.

 

[SkyWarn]

I had the same problem, they would disappear. Even when cold sometimes they would go up high into the cavity. HCG corrected that. But it is normal (I think) for the testicles to raise up just before ejaculation.

 

[Rock H. Johnson]

I had the same problem, they would disappear. Even when cold sometimes they would go up high into the cavity. HCG corrected that. But it is normal (I think) for the testicles to raise up just before ejaculation.

or seek heat and move in, when too cold.