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BP stayed low for a week. Got higher yesterday and lowest reading this morning was 138/86. My body feels really good since donating blood, gym workout yesterday was best in a long time and my body just doesn’t feel like it’s under constant strain and pressure. However, my BP doesn’t seem to be...

Had blood donation this afternoon. 5 1/2 hours later BP was 125/73 and 125/72 on last two reading 2 minutes apart. I’ll monitor and see if drop is temporary for a day or so, or if it is sustained due to decreased hematocrit.

Thanks for your detailed feedback as always. Believe me, I don’t want to be donating blood very often, and my goal with this donation is to get my hematocrit down to a good level in the 40s, and then try to address the possibility of having obstructive sleep apnea. I’m going to see my primary...

It was a typo. I take 6 grams a day

I got my first full lab work done in almost 6 months, and got the results back today. For almost 7 weeks before these labs, I lowered my weekly dose from 100mg, to 84. I inject three times a week. This blood draw was done at a 49 hour trough after my last injection. You can see my total T has...

My doc bumped me down to 40mg for two weeks to see how my pressure stabilizes before any drug change. I started that on Thursday. Today my BP averaged 128/82 for three reading each 1-2 minutes apart. Since starting BP meds back at the end of September, my erectile function has been in and out...

My doc suggested that we try a full 80 milligrams a day of Telmisartan. I’ve been on this dose for 3 1/2 weeks, and it’s become clear that 80 is too much. I started out taking it in the morning, but after a few days, I just couldn’t handle how lightheaded and dizzy it was making me, so I...

Thanks for the feedback. I do 5 mg cialis daily along with citruline 6 mg a day. I probably need to do 40 mg of Telmisartan and a low dose of another drug to bring my systolic down without tanking my diastolic

I came back to this thread because my BP treatment and levels have been all over the place. My BP jumped back up on 40 mg of Telmisartan, so my doc added in 12.5 of hydrochlorothiazide and after about a month of it, I dumped it due to my systolic BP still being in the mid 130s and it starting to...

Well, a couple weeks later now, and a decent amount of the side effects have worn off. My libido is still mediocre, but I’m getting pretty decent nocturnal erections again. I’ve been somewhat fatigued since I started Telmisartin, but it’s not every day that I feel it. I’m also starting to get...

His nurse responded today and said that we could look into other medication’s, but it might take a stronger dose of something else to keep my blood pressure low. I also know that 50 mg of losartan is equivalent to 40 mg of Telmisartin. I’m gonna give this another week, I don’t think things will...

That makes sense and was what I was thinking. Unfortunately, my primary care physician doesn’t feel the same way. I sent him a message through my chart yesterday, telling him my symptoms. His response was that Telmisartin doesn’t cause ED, and another drug would only make it worse. So there’s no...

Curious, if losaran is also an ARB, how would it not affect me the same as Temisartin?

Libido is starting to come back around over the past couple of days, but erections are not. My flaccid state is also greatly reduced. Would an ACE inhibitor like lisinopril possibly be better?

Sleep study is on my list of things to address. Unfortunately it keeps getting longer. All this smacked me out of nowhere. I was feeling good for over a month after getting over Covid, and then my body started to fail on me out of nowhere. Thanks for support, it’s appreciated.