Welcome to the forum @blackkey1996
My healing journey has been long and with more ups and downs than I can recall. I learned from from feeling good and bad.
- I mentioned this elsewhere but tinnitus is usually a symptom of something else. I’ve had it on and off but it does get better if you treat the cause. These are some things to look for:
- Middle ear infection. An ENT can rule this out.
- Hypothyroidism. Meaning thyroid is under-functioning. Check for TSH, ft4 & ft3 through blood test.
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Also causes tinnitus especially when blood glucose gets too low.
- Stress & anxiety. It triggers adrenaline which causes blood pressure changes and thus tinnitus.
- Hypertension. High blood pressure can also be a cause.
- Low dopamine. This one is tricky. When Testosterone gets low, it causes lower dopamine and according to studies this can cause tinnitus to flare.
- Excess inflammation . When ever the ear nerves get inflammed, tinnitus can occur.
- Loud noises can also cause it.
So, the only way to go about treating tinnitus is to try elimination proccess but yes it does get better.
- I recall back in 2017 and 2018 my TSH was > 2.00. Optimal TSH is closer to 1.00, Thyroid is involved in so many body functions including metabolism, body temperature, sex hormones, gut motility, etc. So, it’s critical to healing. You need to go over your daily routine and see if you’re doing the following:
- Getting enough iodine from iodized table salt.
- Are you on any supplements? Multivitamins? Medication? Hormones?
- Deficiency in copper can lead to higher TSH. Try to get it tested through hair analysis or through testing Ceruloplasmin level (copper carrying protein).
- Getting enough protein because thyroid hormones are made from amino acid Tyrosine, which is found in protein.
- Low Adrenals. Low cortisol causes higher TSH. This is why I always say that one must always heal the adrenals first because they affect thyroid, which then can affect testosterone.
- Check for hashimoto’s (antibodies test). This is an autoimmune disorder in which immune system attacks thyroid.
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Inflammation can theoretically cause anything within the body to go awry. We know plagues is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques (scar tissue) in the soft tissue of the penis. Testosterone, for example, is anti-inflammatory and thus may modulate immune system and prevent excess inflammation from occurring. Treating the root cause of excess inflammation can result in improvement of the problem. My latest hypothesis is that shifting hormones can affect the body in so many ways including immune system and gut microbiome. I started my journey not knowing what to look for. I focused too much on increasing androgens which have fixed me temporarily (testosterone replacement therapy + hydrocortisone). Notice that I added hydrocortisone to testosterone therapy to curb inflammation. In recent years, I sought for all potential sources of inflammation and tried best to treat them and the result is better than anything I’ve done in the last 10 years.
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I had experienced the penile sensitivity problem when I was taking finesteride and after quitting. It slowly improved over time. As I said above, I did testosterone therapy and added some hydrocortisone. So, maybe this is what helped it but I really can’t say for certain. However, I noticed something strange recently, I experienced some temporary penile sensitivity when I was experimenting with a certain probiotic that raises Progesterone level. Progesterone is known as anti-androgenic and Anti-Estrogenic.
" Progesterone is an anti - androgen because it competes with androgens for androgen receptors and an anti -estrogen because it downregulates estrogen receptors (Johnson and Everitt, 1995)."
The problem was gone after I stopped the probiotic. So, I think penile sensitivity has something to do with androgens (DHT) and/or estrogen (E2). Try and test for LH, T, E2, Progesterone & possibly DHT.