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Testosterone Side Effect Management
Why can testosterone increase water retention?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gman86" data-source="post: 135987" data-attributes="member: 15043"><p>Thanks for the reply Nelson, appreciate you taking the time. But ya you’re definitely right about lower extremity edema, it absolutely has more to do with cardiovascular issues, than hormones, most of the time. I’m a nurse, and have been in the health field for over 10 years. I would guess though that most of the guys complaining about water retention, while on HRT, are more so complaining of water retention/ bloating in their face, abdominal region and fingers. Probably a good way to distinguish cardiovascular edema, vs edema from hormones/ electrolytes imbalances, is whether you have edema in your lower extremities along with retention in other places, or lower extremity edema just by itself. Just by itself, would most likely be cardiovascular related, and if it’s paired with retention in those other areas, it could be of different etiology. But of course, I’ve had patients with chronic heart failure that had fluid retention in multiple areas, so this doesn’t always hold true all of the time. But it’s pretty easy to rule out cardiovascular issues being the cause. If you’ve never had any cardiovascular issue prior to HRT, and if you’re asymptomatic of any other cardiovascular/ heart problems other than the fluid retention, you can most likely rule out it being related to any cardiovascular problems.</p><p></p><p>You say an increase in cortisol could be a cause, when beginning TRT, but I thought TRT lowers cortisol. I’ve read many threads where guys have borderline low cortisol after initiating TRT. I myself, have a borderline low cortisol level while on TRT. Also, lowering salt usually isn’t the answer. Increasing potassium is a better solution. They work together in balance to maintain proper fluid levels within the body. That’s of course assuming they are using natural salt, and not processed/ refined salt. That alone will make all the difference. Here’s a video on salt that will blow your mind, I know it did mine lol. But I agree with everything else you said, and I also agree that we should not be strictly looking at E2 every time water retention/ bloating occurs. There’s just too many things that can lead to water retention/ bloating, in a short period of time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gman86, post: 135987, member: 15043"] Thanks for the reply Nelson, appreciate you taking the time. But ya you’re definitely right about lower extremity edema, it absolutely has more to do with cardiovascular issues, than hormones, most of the time. I’m a nurse, and have been in the health field for over 10 years. I would guess though that most of the guys complaining about water retention, while on HRT, are more so complaining of water retention/ bloating in their face, abdominal region and fingers. Probably a good way to distinguish cardiovascular edema, vs edema from hormones/ electrolytes imbalances, is whether you have edema in your lower extremities along with retention in other places, or lower extremity edema just by itself. Just by itself, would most likely be cardiovascular related, and if it’s paired with retention in those other areas, it could be of different etiology. But of course, I’ve had patients with chronic heart failure that had fluid retention in multiple areas, so this doesn’t always hold true all of the time. But it’s pretty easy to rule out cardiovascular issues being the cause. If you’ve never had any cardiovascular issue prior to HRT, and if you’re asymptomatic of any other cardiovascular/ heart problems other than the fluid retention, you can most likely rule out it being related to any cardiovascular problems. You say an increase in cortisol could be a cause, when beginning TRT, but I thought TRT lowers cortisol. I’ve read many threads where guys have borderline low cortisol after initiating TRT. I myself, have a borderline low cortisol level while on TRT. Also, lowering salt usually isn’t the answer. Increasing potassium is a better solution. They work together in balance to maintain proper fluid levels within the body. That’s of course assuming they are using natural salt, and not processed/ refined salt. That alone will make all the difference. Here’s a video on salt that will blow your mind, I know it did mine lol. But I agree with everything else you said, and I also agree that we should not be strictly looking at E2 every time water retention/ bloating occurs. There’s just too many things that can lead to water retention/ bloating, in a short period of time. [/QUOTE]
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