What a nightmare!!

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#1

Being spanish my english might not be very good. Anyway, here it goes:

Hi everybody,

today, feeling the way I feel, I thought about writting you a couple of lines about all this.

A year and a half has passed and I still feel the horrible side effects. I don´t understand why I feel this cold on my genital area. I don´t know why the skin of my scrotum is cold. I don´t know why the tip of my penis feels cold. And I don´t know if everything is related to my prostate or if it is a hormonal inbalance what is causing all this.

I feel that blood flow is an issue. During the days I feel better I can sometimes start having an ereccion only by visual stimulation, but the worse days I feel like shit.

All this makes me feel quite depressed, just the way I feel now. I don´t worry about hair anymore…but please, don´t leave me without a sex life! that´s the way I feel.

It´s not just the fact of not being able to have sex…It´s everything else. I´m 30 years old now. What about the future? what about a family? kids?, etc? I don´t want to be single all my life because of my problem, that´s what worries me the most.

I have a nice house, nice car, etc, but I have no sex drive. And, as I said, It´s a big big issue.

I´ve been seeing many doctors, the last one an endocrinologist who happens to be a member of my family…and when I started asking him about all this he told me, with my hormonal tests in his hands, that It´s all in my head. COME ON MAN!!! I agree that you are the one who understands about hormones and you are one of the best doctors in that field around here, but how can a 30 year old man have a level of Testosterone in 3.6, when the minimum is 3.0 and the maximum is 10???

A funny thing is that, when I told him about the feeling of cold on my genitals, he didn´t say “It´s all in your head”…he actuallly mentioned the word PROSTATITIS!! He told me that it is hard to diagnose and that the synthoms come and go sometimes. Well, It makes sense to me!!

The only person that has helped me is my urologist. He looked at my Testosterone levels and said that I was under the normal ranges for a 30 year old man, so he thinks that TRT with Testosterone gel is the way to go. Ok but, is it really a problem with my testosterone levels? what about that feeling of cold in my scrotum and top of my penis? why when I ride my motorcycle, after a few minutes, I feel the area very cold and the typical sinthoms like when something is not letting blood pass through a part of your body??? His point of view is that, although is not written on any documents, cases of recovery, etc, I am the third patient who tells him about this cold sinthoms and, the other two recovered from that feeling of cold (as well as the E.D., libido issues) with TRT.

Could all this be psychological??? OF COURSE PART OF IT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL!!! we have no sex drive!! that affects our heads, our self esteem as men…but not everything is in our heads, that´s the way I see it.

Of course there are worse things that happen to other people. A friend of mine knows a guy, a 24 year old guy, with a non curable brain tumor. Now that´s bad, that´s horrible, but I bet he is fighting against it, as well as we have to do with all this.

I´m spending a lot of money and a lot of time trying to treat my condition. You have to be very strong mentally to deal with all this. You have to stand all those doctors who just don´t give you any answers, but I´m willing to do everything I possibly can to get healed.

I do smoke (quite a lot since all this started) and I gained weight. Quitting smoking and getting fit again is going to be a part of my fighting. Apart from that I have an appointment with a doctor here in Spain who happens to be very far from my city, but I don´t mind, I need to get my prostate checked properly. I haven´t got enough with just an ecography that I got done in like 5 minutes, where it seemed to be normal. I don´t care if I have to go through more unconfortable tecniques and tests to get it checked properly. I have this weird feeling of cold on my genitals that appears sometimes, and I have to get to the bottom of this.

If at the end of the road I have to through a penis enlargement tecnique, as well as penis thickening operation and after that get a proper penis prothesis, I will!! (as you can see, I´ve thought about everything and been reading a lot about it), cos I don´t want to kill myself because of this shit.

The answer to all of our problems has to be there!! Just keep on fighting guys. Be strong in mind. It´s a hard hard experience to go through all this, but we will find the cure at the end.

Best wishes to all of you guys.

#2

Hi all,

In a week time I´ll be seeing an especialized doctor who happens to have a lot of experience dealing with hormones and treating secondary effects of bodybuilders.

I´ve sent him all my hormone tests and he is willing to help me, so I´m very excited about it.

I told him about the combination of HCG(to raise T levels)+Clomid(to keep estrogens down and avoid ginecomastia)+Serenoa reppens(to protect the prostate). Since I have low T and High estrogens, it makes sense to me.

But he is the especialist and I will pay atention and follow his advice.

I´ll keep you all posted as soon as I have more news.

Regards.

#3

Hi,

well, as I said before, I have low T and high E. I went to the urologist to get a prostate eco today, as well as a Testicles eco and he told me that everything was fine…

But then he looked at the results of my semen analysis and said: “well, it shows here that you have a bacterial prostatitis”.

Great…just great…

So right now I have low T, high E, high Prolactin…and bacterial prostatitis.

I´m starting a treatment with antibiotics tomorrow for 8 days.

On the other side, I spoke with the specialist who is gonna treat me for the low T, etc and he told me that I can perfectly combine his treatment with the antibiotics.

At least now I can understand why I get this feeling of cold on my genital area…it´s probably due to the bacterial prostatitis…

#4

Wow, what a thought!!!

#5

Hey Boston, how are you man?

Well, the thing is that I was told by doctors that cold in genital area was probably due to low T. I guess they were wrong.

Give me some advice about how to change my diet habits please. I think you have a lot of experience about it.

I know I have to avoid caffeine (coffe, coca cola) but what else would you recommend?

Thanks man!

#6

Arimidex is used to lower Estrogens. hCG and Clomid are both used to boost endogeneous Testosterone production. You should probably try one or the other, but not both together (my opinion).

I have read that Dr Shippen starts with a short (ie, 4-7 day) Clomid challenge, to see if the HTPA responds. If so, further fine tuning can be undertaken with the protocol, or use of hCG can then begin.

Also, Serenoa Repens is SAW PALMETTO. As you know, SP is a natural supplement that inhibits DHT. I personally would not take another product that inhibits DHT after what Finasteride did.

Discuss all this with your doctor.

#7

Well things are going better, Much better!
I have been watching what I eat for about 4-5 months now.
I eat a “prostate healthy” diet. No dairy (or very little) or redmeats. I buy and use soy and rice milk, and eat chicken, fish, and lots of beans instead. I don’t drink as much coffee either. I do drink at least a cup or two sometimes even a day, but just not three or four or five, i.e. like those 2-3 out of the coffee pot in the morning.
Anway, I try to eat much more healthy. I eat lots of nuts and granola bars instead of cakes and starches. I also don’t drink much soda anymore, nor Gatorade, and instead try to drink plenty of water.
Because otherwise prostatitis symptoms will flare up.

Oh, btw, shouldn’t you be doing 5-6 weeks of antibiotics instead of just 8 days??
I think too short a course is bad. You need to completely knock that stuff out, so it absolutely does not come back. Ask your doctor about this.

#8

Hi Mew,

From what I know, HCG restores the normal ability of the testicles to respond to LH, Clomid should be a good option to combine, since it inhibits the supresion produced by the estrogens in the hipotalamous, making the LH and FSH react (so more natural Testosterone is produced), and it also acts as an anti estrogen (HCG increases estrogen production). Saw palmetto should be used to protect the prostate, because more DHT will be produced in all this situation. I know a friend who tried with Serenoa for a month and he felt A LOT of recovery, but stopped using it because of gynecomastia.

But first I have to speak with the doctor about all this, and he will decide what is better.

P.S.: I thought finasteride action is mucho much more aggresive than saw palmetto, since it does his work in a more natural way…am I wrong?

Regards.

#9

Boston, the bacteria that was found in my sperm analysis was “enterococcus faecalis”, and it says that it is sensible to Amoxiciline ( the antibiotic that I´m currently taking).

I´m doing 8 days, 500mg, 3 times/day, after that, a week rest and right after that another sperm analysis.