Low cortisol and low testosterone

[Charliebizz]

How did you fix the issue ? I have same issues. Considering hydrocortisone

I’m not sure if it’s fixed but when I switched to enanthate my AM blood cortisol went back to averaging around 12-15.

i tried hydrocortisone in the past and I never felt right on it. I tried doses as low as 5mg per day all the way to 40mg.

my saliva tests still come back low normal first two readings and low last two but I don’t feel to bad nowadays. My only issues now are weird headaches and depression on trt. I’ve been messing around way too much with cream and injections. Having a lot of trouble sticking to one or the other. The cream brings great erections and libido. But overall I feel tired and unmotivated. And injections I feel better playing sports (ice hockey) but I get worse headaches and feel almost allergic to them. I get watery itchy eyes, eye lids and sides of my nose. if I could just feel more stable on cream I would say it’s better overall but sometimes I feel like my t might be too high and others it feels low. I really need to get labs soon and see what’s going on.

I’m also thinking about going back on super low dose of lexapro. I know ssri have a bad reputation but I believe I felt much better mentally in trt with them. I haven’t felt right since I came off almost 3 years ago. it’s progressively getting worse. But I always worry about the long term sides of ssri. I didn’t really have any noticeable sides on the 2.5 mg I was taking a day.

 

[glob]

I’m not sure if it’s fixed but when I switched to enanthate my AM blood cortisol went back to averaging around 12-15.

i tried hydrocortisone in the past and I never felt right on it. I tried doses as low as 5mg per day all the way to 40mg.

my saliva tests still come back low normal first two readings and low last two but I don’t feel to bad nowadays. My only issues now are weird headaches and depression on trt. I’ve been messing around way too much with cream and injections. Having a lot of trouble sticking to one or the other. The cream brings great erections and libido. But overall I feel tired and unmotivated. And injections I feel better playing sports (ice hockey) but I get worse headaches and feel almost allergic to them. I get watery itchy eyes, eye lids and sides of my nose. if I could just feel more stable on cream I would say it’s better overall but sometimes I feel like my t might be too high and others it feels low. I really need to get labs soon and see what’s going on.

I’m also thinking about going back on super low dose of lexapro. I know ssri have a bad reputation but I believe I felt much better mentally in trt with them. I haven’t felt right since I came off almost 3 years ago. it’s progressively getting worse. But I always worry about the long term sides of ssri. I didn’t really have any noticeable sides on the 2.5 mg I was taking a day.

I was curious to ask you what was the maximum length of time you used hydrocortisone the times you tried it

 

[Charliebizz]

I was curious to ask you what was the maximum length of time you used hydrocortisone the times you tried it

2-3 months.

 

[glob]

2-3 months.

Your muscle twitching got worse or better with it?

 

[Charliebizz]

Your muscle twitching got worse or better with it?

I don’t remember. But once I got on trt and use either enanthate or cream I’ve been fine. For some reason I get strange side effects on t cyp.