Join DateJan 2013Posts31
Long story short, after 9 month of self-TRT who didn't seems to really improve symptoms despite perfect bloodwork, I decided to quit. I had test level of 350-450 before starting, but a lot of symptoms similar to low test. Pretty much every plants/product who lowered prolactin cured my symptoms by 85% pre TRT, but I alway stopped taking them because they acted like strong diuretic, making me flat and slighty dehydrated (which is a dumb way to stop, now that I think about it.)9 month later, on trt, my symptoms are even worse (energy and libido), unless I let estrogen creep back up than I have some energy but end up with puffy nips and still weak libido(which I think comes from a raise in serotonin). those plants who uses to work don't anymore. So I decided to stop cold turkey, no pct ( gonna get chit for that) for 7-8 weeks, get blood work and see from there what should I do.
I don't really feel better since quitting TRT, but not that much worse too. thing is I seem to keep aromatizing a lot ( water retention, severe acne, puffy nipples), and arimidex seems to get that down, but do kinda make me feel like chit evertime I take it.
My question is, should I stop taking arimidex before blood work to not screw result or should I keep taking it if I see symptoms?
I'm gonna test for Test, free test, lh, fsh, e2, prolactin, thyroid.
Last edited by maelpj; Yesterday at 08:53 PM.Join DateMar 2004LocationPennslyvaniaPosts2,457
hmm....how far apart were your injections?Join DateJan 2013Posts31also, if u were on for 9 months you are gonna need awhile before you test your shiit to get a normal reading.
And self TRT? Why would you do that? All you have to do if poke around and make more phone calls to find a willing doc. Be willing to drive and hour too, its your hormones your talking about and i dont care how long you hang on these boards, you still cant interpret bloodwork accurately. Maybe a dumb doctor couldnt eather, but if you may learn something from him. There have been times where a certain doctor wasn't smarter than me, but he knew maybe one thing i didnt. It gave me something else to factor in. You need a professional's opinion
actually for 2 years I went from doc to endricologist to doc, never found nobody who wanted to help. I had enough to feel like chit and wanted to try.Was doing e4d injection.
What do you mean in gonna need awhile before you test you chit to get a normal reading? You mean to recover, or that I might still have exogenous test inside my blood who haven't yet clear out from prolonged use?
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