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<blockquote data-quote="RobRoy" data-source="post: 254955" data-attributes="member: 42893"><p>Your question is a very good question and exactly the type of questions they get asked on forums The problem is that the answer from the forums always has to be always somehow, hormone related. The answer to your question is much more complex and that is why when you are working with a provider he should ask all of the pertinent details. First of all, how old are you? Secondly, what is your past medical history? What other lifestyle factors or psychological factors may be involved in how you’re feeling and functioning. These are all detailed questions. Hormones are just one part of the equation. When you say your thyroid went back to baseline that’s where we need to do a whole lecture on thyroid, and what true optimization is. Was your baseline thyroid level optimal? I doubt it was. Men need to realize that the symptoms of low thyroid and testosterone look the same in many areas and the reason some men don’t get some symptoms improved on testosterone is because they are throwing testosterone at a thyroid problem. So you stopped working out and gained a lot of weight and of course you’re not going to feel good. The trifecta of health is nutrition, exercise, and hormone optimization. so, your provider should be asking you very detailed questions about your symptoms, your pas medical history, present medication‘s, present medical disorders, questions about work and family, and most importantly, understanding your expectations of how you think you should feel and function, as well as your understanding about what each and everyone of the hormones do, and don’t do. Most problems on these forums are with men that have unrealistic expectations or they have this preconceived notion of how they think they should feel and function and if they don’t, then somethings not working and they are “struggling”. The sweat equity has to be put in by the patient. They have to put in the hard work, which is the nutrition, the exercise, adequate sleep, stress, reduction, etc. The providers job is to make sure the hormones are fully optimal. It’s just understanding that each and every hormone has beneficial effects and you maximize the beneficial effects by optimizing levels. There is a dose response relationship. No, everyone cannot tolerate the same amount, and everyone does not need the same levels and that’s based on their own individual androgen receptor sensitivities. It’s a simple, balancing act between optimizing levels of maximizing benefits, and avoiding any unwanted side effects. When hormone replacement therapy is done correctly there should never be a need for any medication’s to control symptoms of excess or anything else no different that you didn’t need any medication when you were in high school or college age with excellent hormone levels.</p><p>So men ask questions on forums and the answer always has to do with some type of hormone or manipulating hormones or estradiol or DHT, etc. the majority of the time nothing could be further from the truth.</p><p></p><p>And put it very straightforward. I do not see any men that struggle. The men that I see struggling on this forum and others are men that, simply, in most instances want it to do something that it’s not going to do for them. If you raise levels to overcome any symptoms of a deficiency, then those symptoms of the deficiency will improve. Those symptoms that don’t improve are not related to the hormone, no matter how much you want it to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RobRoy, post: 254955, member: 42893"] Your question is a very good question and exactly the type of questions they get asked on forums The problem is that the answer from the forums always has to be always somehow, hormone related. The answer to your question is much more complex and that is why when you are working with a provider he should ask all of the pertinent details. First of all, how old are you? Secondly, what is your past medical history? What other lifestyle factors or psychological factors may be involved in how you’re feeling and functioning. These are all detailed questions. Hormones are just one part of the equation. When you say your thyroid went back to baseline that’s where we need to do a whole lecture on thyroid, and what true optimization is. Was your baseline thyroid level optimal? I doubt it was. Men need to realize that the symptoms of low thyroid and testosterone look the same in many areas and the reason some men don’t get some symptoms improved on testosterone is because they are throwing testosterone at a thyroid problem. So you stopped working out and gained a lot of weight and of course you’re not going to feel good. The trifecta of health is nutrition, exercise, and hormone optimization. so, your provider should be asking you very detailed questions about your symptoms, your pas medical history, present medication‘s, present medical disorders, questions about work and family, and most importantly, understanding your expectations of how you think you should feel and function, as well as your understanding about what each and everyone of the hormones do, and don’t do. Most problems on these forums are with men that have unrealistic expectations or they have this preconceived notion of how they think they should feel and function and if they don’t, then somethings not working and they are “struggling”. The sweat equity has to be put in by the patient. They have to put in the hard work, which is the nutrition, the exercise, adequate sleep, stress, reduction, etc. The providers job is to make sure the hormones are fully optimal. It’s just understanding that each and every hormone has beneficial effects and you maximize the beneficial effects by optimizing levels. There is a dose response relationship. No, everyone cannot tolerate the same amount, and everyone does not need the same levels and that’s based on their own individual androgen receptor sensitivities. It’s a simple, balancing act between optimizing levels of maximizing benefits, and avoiding any unwanted side effects. When hormone replacement therapy is done correctly there should never be a need for any medication’s to control symptoms of excess or anything else no different that you didn’t need any medication when you were in high school or college age with excellent hormone levels. So men ask questions on forums and the answer always has to do with some type of hormone or manipulating hormones or estradiol or DHT, etc. the majority of the time nothing could be further from the truth. And put it very straightforward. I do not see any men that struggle. The men that I see struggling on this forum and others are men that, simply, in most instances want it to do something that it’s not going to do for them. If you raise levels to overcome any symptoms of a deficiency, then those symptoms of the deficiency will improve. Those symptoms that don’t improve are not related to the hormone, no matter how much you want it to be. [/QUOTE]
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