firefighterinNC
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Hi all, been lurking here reading for close to a year. Coincidentally I've been on TRT for just over a year and a half now. Clinically have had low testosterone since I was 29 and now i'm 41. My endocrinologist has been the one Rx'ing test cypionate to me. I've ranged from where he started me on at 140mg weekly and down to 100mg weekly.
I've had quarterly check-ins with the endocrinologist and my blood work has always decent but i've had the normal side effects. High hematocrit, low libido etc. Doctor told me to drop my dose down to 100mg when he saw my hematocrit. In March of this year I saw a urologist to get the snip as two kids is a plenty. I chatted with the urologist briefly during consult about being on TRT and i briefly mentioned the libido stuff to him and the blood work etc and he said it just sounded like high e2. I went back to the urologist back in June for a consult to see if he would take over TRT care which he was fine with. He ordered a labs and told me to up my dose of testosterone back to 140 mg. He also prescribed Aromasin at 25mg twice a week even before he saw my labs. That little tidbit sort of through me off. I waited till my bloodwork came back and my estrogen was 39 , testosterone was 798 and free t was 20. Still high blood markers etc. These labs were taking in day prior to my once a week shot.
I had a yearly check up with my PCP and i mentioned this to her and she was cool with repeating the labs again a month later, since I was struggling to get in with the urologist again and havent been able to get feedback on the correct dosage of Aromasin. My gut was to just start with 1/4 of a 25mg pill once a week and try it to see if it helped in anyway.
The labs the PCP ordered my injection day was Thursday, labs were on Friday. Aromasin dose was 2 days prior to labs. Results came back that it cut my e2 in half 20.3 and my Testosterone was 769 the day after injection. My doc gave me a different referral for a new urologist just in case I wanted to try. Am I wrong for questioning the dose of two 25mg aromasin twice weekly on 140mg of Test C. I feel like I absolutely would have crushed my e2 when 6.25mg of Aromasin took it 20.
I'm open to suggestions, obviously i'm trying to work with my doctor on it but getting timely care is not always feasible. Thanks for any help or suggestions and I'm happy to be here. Sorry for the long winded post.
Don
I've had quarterly check-ins with the endocrinologist and my blood work has always decent but i've had the normal side effects. High hematocrit, low libido etc. Doctor told me to drop my dose down to 100mg when he saw my hematocrit. In March of this year I saw a urologist to get the snip as two kids is a plenty. I chatted with the urologist briefly during consult about being on TRT and i briefly mentioned the libido stuff to him and the blood work etc and he said it just sounded like high e2. I went back to the urologist back in June for a consult to see if he would take over TRT care which he was fine with. He ordered a labs and told me to up my dose of testosterone back to 140 mg. He also prescribed Aromasin at 25mg twice a week even before he saw my labs. That little tidbit sort of through me off. I waited till my bloodwork came back and my estrogen was 39 , testosterone was 798 and free t was 20. Still high blood markers etc. These labs were taking in day prior to my once a week shot.
I had a yearly check up with my PCP and i mentioned this to her and she was cool with repeating the labs again a month later, since I was struggling to get in with the urologist again and havent been able to get feedback on the correct dosage of Aromasin. My gut was to just start with 1/4 of a 25mg pill once a week and try it to see if it helped in anyway.
The labs the PCP ordered my injection day was Thursday, labs were on Friday. Aromasin dose was 2 days prior to labs. Results came back that it cut my e2 in half 20.3 and my Testosterone was 769 the day after injection. My doc gave me a different referral for a new urologist just in case I wanted to try. Am I wrong for questioning the dose of two 25mg aromasin twice weekly on 140mg of Test C. I feel like I absolutely would have crushed my e2 when 6.25mg of Aromasin took it 20.
I'm open to suggestions, obviously i'm trying to work with my doctor on it but getting timely care is not always feasible. Thanks for any help or suggestions and I'm happy to be here. Sorry for the long winded post.
Don
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