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<blockquote data-quote="AndrogenicFortress" data-source="post: 98297" data-attributes="member: 17742"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hello people</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So here is the history of my journey:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">On november 2017 I went to the doc, the symptoms where extreme fatigue, really extreme.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The doc order some blood samples and everything was perfect, most solid health he has ever seen, so he gave me some vitamins.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I took the vitamins and went again in 15 days, having read a lot of things online I asked for a hormonal panel, doc was “why not” and order some prolactin, estradiol and testosterone tests.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This where the results:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Prolactin: </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">7.25 ng/ml </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">2.58 - 18.12</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Test: </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">1.72 ng/ml </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">2.49 - 8.36</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Estradiol: </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Less than 18 pg/ml</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">25 - 107</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The first thing I notice is that my test is low AF, and the second is that my country standards are really low for test and really high for estradiol.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Note: the estradiol test was not a sensitive one, in fact there is no sensitive test in my country (I’m from south america).</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">When the doctor sees the results he gave me 250mg enanthate test.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The difference… Was like opening my eyes and realising that I was in the matrix. I realize that I was deep deep in a depression and never really realise it, life had lost it’s colours for me, I was just going by. The first week I got an incredible love for life, a desire to conquer and make my life the most amazing one. It’s hard to describe, it was like life was gaining colours again, like sound was coming back and I could really enjoy beauty. I was full of drive and ambition base only in that life was amazing and wonderful, a full love of the experience itself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Of course, that was one I decided “Ok, I’m in for life”. The second week was still amazing but just filled with a sense of well being and confidence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">2 weeks passed, gone back to the doc and he is glad that it helped me, he gave me another 250mg and told me to come back in 1 month and a half. I actually waited one month and a half, it was shitty going back but hey… I already decided I’m in for life, I will have patience and make the necessary sacrifices.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">January I went to the doc and he disappointed me with the greatest BS protocol ever, 250mg every 2 months. Yeah, once every 2 months. I started talking to some friends that are doctors, to get medical orders. I’m not going back to that hell, never again, it swallows you in a way that you don’t even realize how miserable you are. My friends understand what I went through and accepted helping me, so now having medical orders freely at my disposal I started my own protocol, 250mg x week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I started IM and dosing once per week, but move to twice per week after a month or so.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I run some test with my insurance in late january:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hematocrits: 46.9 % </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">40 - 54 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">TT: 13.10 ng/ml </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">2.49 - 8.36</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Free test: 1.378 nmol/l </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">0.174 - 0.672</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Estradiol: 70 pg/ml </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">25 - 107</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(Non sensitive)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">HDL: 47 mg/dl </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">>60 optimal, > 40 safe</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">LDL: 93 mg/dl </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><130 optimal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">TSH: 2.45uUI/ml </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">0.35 - 4.94 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">At that point I move to 2/wk SubQ of 125mg each and added Anastrozole 0.25mg with each injection. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Mid february I did two estradiol tests from two differents labs, at the same day with 40 minutes difference. The test are non sensitives so I don’t know how useful they can be.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">At the moment I lost that feeling of being in love with life, even the sense of wellbeing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">For now I’m betting that it’s a matter of high E2 and I’m trying to manage it, which is difficult as there are no sensitive assays in my country (a topic for another thread).</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">For now I’m at using 0.5mg Anastrozole 24hs after injection. Feeling better than before, I have a little of wellbeing every now and then but nowhere near what I know it could be.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So... that's my journey so far.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Cheers</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndrogenicFortress, post: 98297, member: 17742"] [FONT=Verdana]Hello people[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]So here is the history of my journey:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]On november 2017 I went to the doc, the symptoms where extreme fatigue, really extreme.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]The doc order some blood samples and everything was perfect, most solid health he has ever seen, so he gave me some vitamins.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I took the vitamins and went again in 15 days, having read a lot of things online I asked for a hormonal panel, doc was “why not” and order some prolactin, estradiol and testosterone tests.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]This where the results:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Prolactin: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]7.25 ng/ml [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]2.58 - 18.12[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Test: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]1.72 ng/ml [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]2.49 - 8.36[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Estradiol: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Less than 18 pg/ml[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]25 - 107[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]The first thing I notice is that my test is low AF, and the second is that my country standards are really low for test and really high for estradiol.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Note: the estradiol test was not a sensitive one, in fact there is no sensitive test in my country (I’m from south america).[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]When the doctor sees the results he gave me 250mg enanthate test.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]The difference… Was like opening my eyes and realising that I was in the matrix. I realize that I was deep deep in a depression and never really realise it, life had lost it’s colours for me, I was just going by. The first week I got an incredible love for life, a desire to conquer and make my life the most amazing one. It’s hard to describe, it was like life was gaining colours again, like sound was coming back and I could really enjoy beauty. I was full of drive and ambition base only in that life was amazing and wonderful, a full love of the experience itself.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Of course, that was one I decided “Ok, I’m in for life”. The second week was still amazing but just filled with a sense of well being and confidence.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]2 weeks passed, gone back to the doc and he is glad that it helped me, he gave me another 250mg and told me to come back in 1 month and a half. I actually waited one month and a half, it was shitty going back but hey… I already decided I’m in for life, I will have patience and make the necessary sacrifices.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]January I went to the doc and he disappointed me with the greatest BS protocol ever, 250mg every 2 months. Yeah, once every 2 months. I started talking to some friends that are doctors, to get medical orders. I’m not going back to that hell, never again, it swallows you in a way that you don’t even realize how miserable you are. My friends understand what I went through and accepted helping me, so now having medical orders freely at my disposal I started my own protocol, 250mg x week.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I started IM and dosing once per week, but move to twice per week after a month or so.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I run some test with my insurance in late january:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Hematocrits: 46.9 % [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]40 - 54 [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]TT: 13.10 ng/ml [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]2.49 - 8.36[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Free test: 1.378 nmol/l [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]0.174 - 0.672[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Estradiol: 70 pg/ml [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]25 - 107[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana](Non sensitive)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]HDL: 47 mg/dl [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]>60 optimal, > 40 safe[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]LDL: 93 mg/dl [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]<130 optimal[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]TSH: 2.45uUI/ml [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]0.35 - 4.94 [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]At that point I move to 2/wk SubQ of 125mg each and added Anastrozole 0.25mg with each injection. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Mid february I did two estradiol tests from two differents labs, at the same day with 40 minutes difference. The test are non sensitives so I don’t know how useful they can be.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]At the moment I lost that feeling of being in love with life, even the sense of wellbeing.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]For now I’m betting that it’s a matter of high E2 and I’m trying to manage it, which is difficult as there are no sensitive assays in my country (a topic for another thread).[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]For now I’m at using 0.5mg Anastrozole 24hs after injection. Feeling better than before, I have a little of wellbeing every now and then but nowhere near what I know it could be.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] So... that's my journey so far. Cheers[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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