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I have the exact same symptoms. I have tried increasing Testosterone but it only works somewhat and it is temporary. I think this is because of the increse of estrogen also making worse and worse every time.
I tried doing everything from 150mg a few times a week, 250 once or twice a week and none of it did the trick for me. I think I need a big dose to get the motors running again so to speak. And even at 500 every 2 weeks i couldnt get it up all the way rigid most of the time. its the yohimbine and wellbutrin. i think they they work synergystically because wellbutrin is dopamine and norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitor. The Yohimbine is an alpha blocker. It basically blocks the nor epinephrine from going below the waste. When he suggested I take it all day every day I told him that it wont fix anything just help cover up and he says that he wears glasses every day for the rest of his life because it fixes the problem… Also regarding the estrogen I have been taking DIM occasionally and Nolvadex. I guess I forgot to include that. But usually by the 5th day I will get pretty bloated so I from about day 5 - 8 I take 10mg of Nolvadex and it levels me out. I take it only to combat estrogen symptoms and try not to take it full time but it might not be a bad idea. Basically i noticed that my symptoms match the side effects of someone taking an androgen receptor blocker and that blocks the estrogen receptors. Also it seems like in hindsight I would try for example 200mg of testosterone and feel better then let myself fall off. THen when I would go back for another 200mg it wouldnt work and I needed more. I got myself up to 450-500 at once and decided not to let myself fall off again and it just hold it and it seems to be working.
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I also was at a point where a PDE5 inhibitor was working with the testosterone and now it no longer works. just like everything else related to testosterone.
I think that I wasn’t taking enough testosterone here. Or I was experiencing low points in a “cycle” when the viagra stopped working. There is basically a sweet spot which is about 4 days after injection to about 12 days from the injection of testosterone. There is a direct correlation between the dose of testosterone and the girth of my penis, erect or not. For instance at about day 13 i can get it up fine but it isnt as big. I am still figuring out an exact protocol but I mainly have been going off what I feel and how well I sleep. About day 13 I cant fall all the way asleep again and as the testosterone kicks in I am back on track sleeping like normal.
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Considering JNs thread where he got better then fell back off, my experience, and basically everyone else who gets everything working then falls back off
One thing I think of is the stress here. That is one of the most important changes I have made. I addressed the stress directly. I went to massage parlors and put lavender in my room and office. I did the deep breathing exercises. I did a colon hydrotherapy which was gnar gnar. I started taking the protein and minerals per that link I posted about stress. The idea I have is that we stress out so bad and that puts us in a fight or flight mode as described in the link attached. I like the link because it is very informative and it doesn’t have anyone trying to sell me anything. You will notice that a lot of the symptoms on there may sound familiar and could be responsible for some of the sides we have. Like perhaps we have something wrong with the AR, they have become desensitized and causes mad ED for us and hypo-gonadal symptoms. Then we trip the f out and stress out and get stuck in fight or flight which is all of the weird like muscle spasms and shit… Then running around doctor to doctor telling us we are crazy just makes everything worse. I mean I was real good, I could spit game so well! A mouthpiece for days and I could rock a chick and backup my game but then when I fell off I was devastated. My life as I knew it was over and there is no way to expect any amount of testosterone to pull me out of that deep funk of depression and stress. So maybe the testosterone wasn’t helping enough because I didnt address the depression and the stress first. Now that I addressed that part then I can actually appreciate the benefits of the TRT.
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No response to TRT is something you bring up. Whenever I take testosterone it doesn’t do too much for my dick. granted. but it never fails to put 5- 10 lbs of muscle on me.
Still a bit of a puzzle for me is why does it take so much for my dick to work better but not as much to put on some muscle but that may lie in a deeper cause i dont understand related to the metabolism of the testosterone. I also took a 30 day cycle of T3 but i dont attribute anything to that. I wasnt taking any wellbutrin or yohimbine when the testosterone wouldnt get me hard. I couldnt believe that a little piece of viagra would work so well all of a sudden when i was taking 100mg with grapefruit juice until my vision was gone and i was seeing mad tracers but my dick wouldnt work. now just a small piece is all i need. No more manipulation for 20 minutes to get any feeling in my penis. Now just pants can make my dick feel good which turns me on and gets me hard. I kissed a girl and my dick got solid as a rock before I even took the viagra (I think I probably couldnt have held the erection without the V though) and I remember thinking "Oh My gosh! I remember this! " When everything is working you don’t have to touch your dick at all to get it up.
Am I concerned it may only work temporarily. Sure. I have that thought in the back of my mind I guess usually at around day 13ish and I am reminded that I am secretly not the baller big pimp I think I am. But from days 3/4-11/12 I dont think twice about even having this horrible disease. And on the “off” days I can still perform I am just not earth shattering.
Whats in store for the future is that I am still looking to find the problem. Maybe I just need some more of the treatment. I am waiting for my organic acid test to come back. I also started taking a Mitochondria renewal kit that my doctor gave me who said I probably burned my mitochondria. I also have 100iu of HGH in the mail which I am hoping that a cycle of 1iu per day will increase my IGF1 levels and perhaps reduce the need for the treatment. I also have an appt with an “outside the box thinking” endo who “likes a challenge” and “has experience helping transgenders” on the 14th and a pending urology appointment where I am going to tell the doc to give me a script for testosterone instead of me using internet testosterone. So I guess is what I am saying is that I know that this is not a cure and there may not ever be one but I am still pursuing a cure and using this treatment plan for now. In other words I am wearing glasses every day now to see until I can get my lasik surgery.
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