@5-alpha-victim
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Sorry to hear about your experience
At what point did the negative side effects of the bupropion start ? Like how long into your bupropion trust did they start
I can not remember exactly but almost immediately to within a few days.
What is the doctors logic behind trying a more potent way to increase dopamine using the potent dopamine agonist?
The bupropion was prescribed by another psychiatrist. The professor in neuropsychiatry stated how we do not actually know how bupropion exactly works and how it’s relatively mild. When I told about my symptoms of not feeling depressed but just feeling no motivation in a general sense, flat emotions in combination with the loss of libido, that’s when the neuropsychiatrist suggested using pramipexol. The neuropsychiatrist also has a lot of experience prescribing the pramipexol for Parkinson patients and told me how some patients develop addiction or obsessive behaviour like gambling or porn addiction when on pramipexol.
I can not even imagine being addicted to anything with PFS as I am not looking forward or feel desire to do anything.
How long have you been cycling 200 MG’s of proviron? I trialed it at 100 MG’s for seven days . It was making my sexual sides a little worse so I stopped. Proviron is an aromatase inhibitor … I missed this before i trialed it . Inhibiting estrogen makes me worse
After stopping low dose hCG in July I felt horrible energy wise. I noticed how using low dose hCG to bring my testosteron (11 nmol/L PFS state) to a more normal level for my age group (±20-30 nmol/L) gave me more energy, but I mean pure energy, it didn’t do anything to all the other symptoms. So the hCG gave me no motivation/desire/libido/emotions whatsoever, just energy. So after my bupropion trial I restarted low dose hCG and thought of combining hCG and mesterolone (proviron) as my next trial, since I noticed how some recovery stories had both hCG and mesterolone as an element. I just started the mesterolone for a few days now. Apart from feeling a dull bearable headache I haven’t noticed anything yet.
Have you ever trialed andractim ? I feel like this should be my next trial as I read that the
andractim will convert to 3b-diol which I tested low in plasma in twice over last 8 years. And 3b-Diol agonizes the estrogen receptors…so I feel like there is logic here seeing that inhibiting estrogen even slightly with proviron makes me worse. Obviously guessing but educated guessing. Estrogen is needed for proper sexual function.
No I haven’t. If the proviron/hCG and pramipexol trial is not helping anything I would probably look into the mifepristone option, as there seems to be some interesting logic behind it too. But I still need to dive into that