Anne Marie
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My son has primary pituitary and primary thyroid issues. He just turned 20. He is now on growth hormone injections, clomid, anastrozole, levoxyl, vit D, vit B12 and iron. He just tested deficient in oxytocin so he will start on that soon too. He has a team of doctors that includes Dr. Saya from Defy.
Before treatment March 2017:
Testosterone 144
Estrogen Sensitive 25.9
LH 5.4 (range 1.7-8.6)
He is a cpy450 2d6 poor metabolizer so Dr Saya wanted to keep the clomid dose low (it uses that pathway fro metabolism)
He began 12.5 mg of clomid EOD and 0.2mg of anastrozole EOD.
In May he felt MUCH better:
Testosterone 666
Estrodiol 41 (range 8-43)
LH 17.4 H (range 1.7-8.6)
In late July Dr Saya wanted to see what what happen if clomid was lowered, so he started a wean. He was then on 7.5mg of clomid EOD and 0.3mg of anastrozole EOD. Within two weeks of the lower dose my son felt a drop and began struggling to get work done.
Sept labs:
Testosterone 493
Estrodiol 72 (range 8-43)
Our endo moved him back up to 12.5mg clomid EOD with 0.3mg of anastrozole EOD BUT TESTOSTERONE DROPPED LOWER after moving back up to the starting dose.
Oct labs:
Testosterone 449
Estrogen Sensitive 24.4 (range 8-35)
We see our endo next week and Dr. Saya the following week. My son doesn't complain much but he felt much, much better when his T was in the 600s. His big issue is lack of drive. We thought that increasing the clomid would bring the T levels back up but instead they fell more. We are concerned about going too high with a clomid dose given him 2d6 issue. His serum cortisol has been running a bit high on clomid as is.
Do we play around with clomid some more or try a different approach for his low T?
Thanks!
Before treatment March 2017:
Testosterone 144
Estrogen Sensitive 25.9
LH 5.4 (range 1.7-8.6)
He is a cpy450 2d6 poor metabolizer so Dr Saya wanted to keep the clomid dose low (it uses that pathway fro metabolism)
He began 12.5 mg of clomid EOD and 0.2mg of anastrozole EOD.
In May he felt MUCH better:
Testosterone 666
Estrodiol 41 (range 8-43)
LH 17.4 H (range 1.7-8.6)
In late July Dr Saya wanted to see what what happen if clomid was lowered, so he started a wean. He was then on 7.5mg of clomid EOD and 0.3mg of anastrozole EOD. Within two weeks of the lower dose my son felt a drop and began struggling to get work done.
Sept labs:
Testosterone 493
Estrodiol 72 (range 8-43)
Our endo moved him back up to 12.5mg clomid EOD with 0.3mg of anastrozole EOD BUT TESTOSTERONE DROPPED LOWER after moving back up to the starting dose.
Oct labs:
Testosterone 449
Estrogen Sensitive 24.4 (range 8-35)
We see our endo next week and Dr. Saya the following week. My son doesn't complain much but he felt much, much better when his T was in the 600s. His big issue is lack of drive. We thought that increasing the clomid would bring the T levels back up but instead they fell more. We are concerned about going too high with a clomid dose given him 2d6 issue. His serum cortisol has been running a bit high on clomid as is.
Do we play around with clomid some more or try a different approach for his low T?
Thanks!
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