Recent content by simeoni

Was your prolactin over the reference range?

May I ask how you take the pregnenolone and DHEA? I have used transdermal pregnenolone in the past and it seemed to have a somewhat positive effect - 15mg applied to the abdominal area.

Just wanted to give an update to this old thread. I'm doing much better at the moment. I would say that I have pretty much recovered from all the symptoms. Things improved slowly but i'm so glad to be feeling normal again. Take it easy with the AI's folks!

Take a breath and loosen that bow tie! Phil is a long time lurker and an admin on many different TRT related forums. I know him from Crislers forum. He probably doesnt know VC that well.

Well it might be that you are just genetically prone to convert less DHT - via the 5ar enzyme. If you are on TRT, using gels is the best way to go in my opinion - If you are looking to increase DHT.

The upper scale of the first reference range is too high. According to various sources optimal levels are somewhere around 70 pg/ml which is around 2,4 nmol/l. Then again if you do not have any symptoms theres no need to worry about that. I had my DHT around the same level as you - around 1...

Could you post your DHT levels - with reference ranges?

I am doing daily hcg injections at the moment and it seems to be working fine. I am taking 125IUs per shot.

I have to add that there are few big caveats to this study. First it was done on rats and the timeframe of deprivation was quite long. 15 or 19 months is a long time for rats. Also the 15 month depraved group was able to recover while the 19 month was not. Anyways none of us was totally...

Ok. Interesting study. Do you have any idea how long you were deprived of estrogen when you started experiencing symptoms? I mead the period when all this started.

So what were your latest E2 levels?

Well I had those symptoms no matter what level my E2 was. Of course I would feel somewhat worse If I had crushed it to singe digits again. So you are still off TRT. Have you pulled those labs to see what are your natural levels - including E2?

Look. After several crashes the main symptom for me was apathy and other things related to dopamine - loss of libido, ability to feel pleasure, lack of drive etc. This happened to me in the past when I had crashed my E2. To only difference was that these symptoms would eventually disappear...

You stopped TRT cold turkey without a proper pct and now you are speculating all kinds of different causes to your symptoms. For all we know you may not have even recovered properly and the majority of your symptoms may be because of low testosterone levels.

In my opinion you should pull that full thyroid panel - like I wrote you in the PM. A TSH of 3.4 or 4.8 can definitively be an indication of low thyroid function. Looking at the big picture I can say that I have improved from the time that I started this thread. I have lesser agitation and...