Davevo
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Hi All,
Im a newbie on here, but not a nebie to forums and aas/ TRT. Im in a desperate situation and this looks like the right place to get some help.
Im 33 years old. I am a bodybuilder who has palyed around with aas over the years. It has screwed up my endocrine system and i have been battling to get some stablity for over 3 years now. I suspect i had some pre disposed issues to begin with because a lot of the symptoms i now know arent normal, i have had for most of my adult life. I have seen multiple docs and endos over the last few years, with not too much luck. They told me i was most likely going to be sterile and not be able to have kids. I got married last year and luckily we now have a baby. I live in Australia and we are way behind in TRT. Most of the docs know very little and are afraid to treat males with hormone issues. I was doing ok with my TRT of 250mg test e per week, 1/4 tab adex 3 times a week, and 75mg dhea ed. This went on for over 4 or 5 months. In that time i became very stressed and busy, taking up a lot more hours at work to support my new family. My wife was so exhausted and stressed every day that sex wasnt a top priority. We went from having a very healthy sex life to not really bothering very quickly. I was convinced that my lack of libido was purely because of the level of stress i was under and the lack of sleep i was getting. What i didnt realise, until it was too late, was that my libido had dissapeared, i had severe ED, and had bad anxiety for the first time in my life. I was so busy that i thought it was the adex crushing my E2 and i stopped it straight away. My severely painful knees that popped up around the same time made me suspect the adex also. I saw my GP 2 weeks later after getting no difference in result. He did my bloods and they read as follows:
total testosterone - 33.8 (8.0 - 30 nmol/l)
SHBG - 5 (17 - 66)
FAI - 676 (23.3 - 103)
Free Testosterone 1321 (170 - 500 pmol/l)
LH <1 (1 -12)
FSH <1 (1-18)
prolactin 268 (45 - 375)
IGF-1 11.2 (15 - 39.9)
TSH 0.89 (.50 - 4.00)
DHEA S 3.4 (3.0 - 10.5)
Progesterone 3.3 (1.2 - 4.8)
Sensitive Oestradiol 67 (50 - 150 pmol/l)
I know my SHBG is way too low, resulting in all of that free testosterone. Everything else seems ok and my E2 in a good range. My SHBG has been low for a long time. I cant remember ever seeing it in double digits. I have had times of feeling fantastic and no issues with libido or lethargy etc. I dont know what is so different now to get sucha bad response. I have never suffered from depression or
I would love some advice on where to go from here, because im out of ideas, and im really suffering and now my marriage is too. We are at breaking point which is just making everything so much worse.
please help !
Im a newbie on here, but not a nebie to forums and aas/ TRT. Im in a desperate situation and this looks like the right place to get some help.
Im 33 years old. I am a bodybuilder who has palyed around with aas over the years. It has screwed up my endocrine system and i have been battling to get some stablity for over 3 years now. I suspect i had some pre disposed issues to begin with because a lot of the symptoms i now know arent normal, i have had for most of my adult life. I have seen multiple docs and endos over the last few years, with not too much luck. They told me i was most likely going to be sterile and not be able to have kids. I got married last year and luckily we now have a baby. I live in Australia and we are way behind in TRT. Most of the docs know very little and are afraid to treat males with hormone issues. I was doing ok with my TRT of 250mg test e per week, 1/4 tab adex 3 times a week, and 75mg dhea ed. This went on for over 4 or 5 months. In that time i became very stressed and busy, taking up a lot more hours at work to support my new family. My wife was so exhausted and stressed every day that sex wasnt a top priority. We went from having a very healthy sex life to not really bothering very quickly. I was convinced that my lack of libido was purely because of the level of stress i was under and the lack of sleep i was getting. What i didnt realise, until it was too late, was that my libido had dissapeared, i had severe ED, and had bad anxiety for the first time in my life. I was so busy that i thought it was the adex crushing my E2 and i stopped it straight away. My severely painful knees that popped up around the same time made me suspect the adex also. I saw my GP 2 weeks later after getting no difference in result. He did my bloods and they read as follows:
total testosterone - 33.8 (8.0 - 30 nmol/l)
SHBG - 5 (17 - 66)
FAI - 676 (23.3 - 103)
Free Testosterone 1321 (170 - 500 pmol/l)
LH <1 (1 -12)
FSH <1 (1-18)
prolactin 268 (45 - 375)
IGF-1 11.2 (15 - 39.9)
TSH 0.89 (.50 - 4.00)
DHEA S 3.4 (3.0 - 10.5)
Progesterone 3.3 (1.2 - 4.8)
Sensitive Oestradiol 67 (50 - 150 pmol/l)
I know my SHBG is way too low, resulting in all of that free testosterone. Everything else seems ok and my E2 in a good range. My SHBG has been low for a long time. I cant remember ever seeing it in double digits. I have had times of feeling fantastic and no issues with libido or lethargy etc. I dont know what is so different now to get sucha bad response. I have never suffered from depression or
I would love some advice on where to go from here, because im out of ideas, and im really suffering and now my marriage is too. We are at breaking point which is just making everything so much worse.
please help !
