I’ve had period of nipple pain/itching - usually attributed that to high E. No gyno thankfully. Was away this week - pretty bad scrotal/testicle size. Head still icthing like crazy
i dont know my testicles seem to get smaller and retracted daily no matter what I do. right now im currently taking clomid and my nuts seem to be more and more shrunken , retracted.
Any idea how to reduce this? My head is itching like crazy too. Very annoying. I’m actually using Nizoral again to help with that even though it may not be the best for us. It helps the itching a little.
See the following threads on Nizoral. According to wiki it alter hormone profiles including testosterone. Try Neutrogena T-Gel instead, there is also an extra strength version.
Neutrogena T-Gel? What is this product supposed to do? Have you used?
Yup. I’m officially in this club. My balls are 40% smaller over the past 3 months and my LH is high while my Total Testosterone is rock bottom 99 (300-1,100). E2 was mid-low.
Wow - you are an opposite to me. I was hoping to find some similarities in all off us. As noted for me sky high E, Sky high SHBG, normal T but low free T %
Now wiki states it’s a limited anti-androgen too though it quotes the official t-gel product page as a source and I cannot find it there. The trials of Propecia mandated the use of neutrogena T-gel shampoo. Many people have used this as it is recommended to control scalp problems associated with MPB.
I never heard of this product until now.
Looks like they took out the prior main ingredient due to safety/carcinigen fears…Actually the scalp itching bruning has now subsides. Lost quite a bit of hair BTW. Looking through my prior posts I get this pahse maybe 1/2 times per year.
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Yeah, I have both of these symptoms. Tingling the very frequent and lasts for periods of about 20 seconds. The pain is dull-ish pain - less frequent and lasts for a much shorter period of time, but definitely occurs 20+ times a day.
Some background on me: 26/M/very active; took 10 1mg pills of fin (1 per day) back in November of 2010.
Just got some bloodwork back from the uro. It paints a very small picture but here is the data:
Prolactin - 12ng/ml [3,13]
Testosterone, Total - 342ng/dL [240,950]
Uro said that I was normal and gave me a script for Levitra and sent me on my way. Also, he said that there was not chance that fin could have had this effect on me, which surprised me. Aren’t doctors supposed to view things scientifically? There’s always a CHANCE that medication can have an adverse effect!
I have an appointment set up with a GP in the area a month out to figure out next steps. hopefully he’ll be a bit more receptive.
JZ - make sure you get a more complete bloodwork profile with GP - puch for Estrogen and SHBG imo
guys - I no longer have the bad pain in my testicles usally. But sometimes my sack is so damn small - not much bigger than a ping pong ball. My tesicles are “retaracted” when that happens. Really bad - I am freaking out. But then sometime it is like the tesicles and the sack “inflate” and become bigger (not back to normal by maybe 80%? I cant tell if it is my hormones causing this or the reverse? If anyone can help I wuld appreciate…
I cant help, scaredtodeath, I can only confirm that I went through all of that. If there’s any consolation, I can tell you that over time the sack and nuts did stabilize. Please be patient and dont try any drastic measures (TRT) as I believe this only exacerbates the extreme size fluctuations. I hope your body will find a steady state somewhere in between.
Not sure if this will help longterm but yesterday I was so frustrated with how tight my scrotum was that I spent 5 minutes just stretching it out by pulling (of course only pulling scrotum not my nuts).
Two things:
- this really seemed to help with bloodflow to the scrotum itself - maintaining a pick/blush color later that day when it is normally grey looking.
- nuts seemed to hang and perhaps get fuller??
I do think something with me hormonally seems to cause “shrinkage” of the sack but maybe leeting stay shrunken is bad. I felt much better yesterday and last night. This morning everything shrank once I had to go to the bathroom (BM) - but I tried stretching again. Results not as good but I can say here at noon I still have some “feeling” - usually my scrotum has very little sensitivity/feeling.
Stretching out my scrotum seems to be helping me. My nuts hang lower after that and the whole area seems to have more blood flow and feeling during the day. Nice to actually feel me testicles hanging.
Now they are still smaller but I can’ help thinking having them hang normally is better than them being shrunken and retracted.
I try to not even look at anything down there anymore or feel around due to the anxiety it causes me but I did notice today my right testicle has shrunken down to nearly nothing. It’s just this tiny weird mass of mushy soft tissue.
I really havn’t noticed any difference how my tesicles “hang” just that they are greatly reduced in size/density and misshapen now almost like they are trying to unravel themselves.
Boston - this is interesting as I remember your issue was strictly penis shrinkage vs. testicle at first. And overnight shrinkage at that - do your docs have any take n the testicle shrinkage
I’m assuming testicular tissue is 5AR dependent like penile tissue hence the overall “shrink” and loss of structure. I think this has gotten a bit worse since TRT and hasn’t really bounced back, even with the hcg. The entire shape has changed too like they are just some loose mass of unraveling tissue.
Yes, my penile shrinkage was completely overnight. Woke up one morning 50% less than the day before. I think Mew had this same experience with penile shrinkage.
Cautiously optimistic - had three fairly good days in a row. Not back to normal but fuller and scrotum is far looser…
Crashed worse than ever after these 4 days of great feeling and fuller balls/scrotum/penis. Evrything is shrunken and painful - cannot bear to look at my tiny sack. Why??
Is there anythng I can do to reverse these bad days - i am like a deflated balloon