Maybe I missed it, but did you do pre-arimistane blood work?
No, I did not. I did do it 3 weeks ago and it was 35 but and this is a big but, I am on alphamax xt at the moment and had some weird blood work.
One mornig my e2 was 90 and next day it was 35. The first test was done with alpha being taken the day before and the next one I took alpha 2h before the test in the am. Before alpha e2 was 22. All this is range 11 - 44. Then I kinda panicked and started taki g dex at 25mg eod. Now I'm taking dex at 12.5 eod. Im tappering of to se how aromasin works.
So not much sense in doing prebloods. This is why Im just adjusting the dose of aromasin until I really start to feel sides and then test.
Cortisol was one morning 390 and the next was 460.
Pasting this from "Products bloodwork" topic where I posted bloods for the alphamax cycle:
Adding my results to this great thread. It's from Alphamax XT, dosed at 4 pills a day. Found it really worked great. My free T skyrocketed, but so did my e2.
Pree bloods:
TSH: 3.31 - (0.27 - 4.2 mIU/L)
Total T: 24 - (8,64 - 29 nmol/L)
Free T: 44,6 (31 - 94 nmol/L)
Estradiol: 22 (11 - 44 ng/L)
DHEA: 11,2 (4,6 - 16,1 umol/L)
FSH: 1.85 (0.95 - 11.95 IU/L)
LH: 2.92 (0.57 - 12.07 IU/L)
Bloods after 3 weeks (Alpha was taken the day before bloods, bloods done in the AM):
e2: 30 ng/L ref range 11 - 44
VitD: 30,2 ug/L ref range > 30
Cortisol: 390 (101 - 535)
Free T: 18.5 (7.0 - 22.7)
SHBG 62 (14.5 - 94.6)
Totall T: 7ng/dl (1.65 - 7.53)
S-TSH: 2.33 (0.35 - 4.94 mIU/L)
LH: 2.78 (0.57 - 12.07)
FSH: 1.98
Prolactin: 11 (3.5 - 19.4 ug/L)
Bloods after 6 weeks (Alpha was taken the day before bloods at 20:00, bloods done in the AM):
LH: 3.40 (0.57 - 12)
Cortisol: 440 (101 - 535)
e2: 90 ng/L (11 - 44)
Bloods after 6 weeks. This are next day results, as the abnormally high e2 number got me scared. This time Alpha was taken 2 hours before the test at 7AM, test was 9AM:
e2 = 35 ng/L (11-44)
Free T: 30 pg/ml (range: 7 - 22.7)
To add some context to my results:
Age early 30s.
With the start of the "cycle" I was ending my cut and started to transition into a bulk. I was in a cut for a long long time (6 months) with a week or two of recomp kcal in between. Lot's of stress, little sleep all the time, now and then. At the 3rd week of Alpha I added MK677 at 20mg ed. Also tried SNS Reduce XT at week 3 through to week 6. It didn't do anything to my morning cortisol, so I stopped using it.
Started using an Ai (dex) after week 6 at 0.25mg eod. Now I'm trying out Arimistane, bumping up the dosage until I start feeling sides, then I will do a test to see if Arimistane actually works or not, once and for all lol
Any comments on my results and findings would be appreciated. I was quite surprised to see my free T levels being in supra-physiological levels from an OTC test booster.
Also adding my MK677 results:
Before: 170 ug/L (88 - 246)
3 weeks after 20mg ed. Test was done in the AM, 20 hours after last dose of MK.
After: 230 ug/L (88 - 246)
I was surprised to see my baseline igf to be so high, in spite of the high amounts of stress and no sleep I have been living with for the past 2 - 3 years. Maybe Alphamax xt raised them, as I was 3 weeks on it at the time of the first test?