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Ok my apologies in advance, I feel like I've been asking questions non-stop today but I've been looking back at what has worked/not worked and well, I have a lot of questions lol.
So one thing I've experienced is that I need to really tank my estrogen in order to get my libido up but also get all the feel-good benefits of test. And I'm talking really tank it.
Last experiment I did was 350mg of test e. for 8 weeks. Felt nothing as usual. So I added an entire pill of exemestane daily, which I knew was going to tank me but I wanted to see if this was a recurring theme. Sure enough, within a few days I felt great, libido through the roof, mood was elevated, attitude was almost arrogant..... kind of what you hear about Test making most people feel.
I got blood work, I already knew it was going to be horrible, and sure enough my sensitive E2 was at 8 pg/dl. EIGHT! So I lowered to half a pill per day, started losing all the benefits, then lowered to 1/4 pill per day and basically lost all the benefits.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this is though. I understand being at like 20, or even high teens, but eight???? Does anyone have an idea why my body would do this? My SHBG is right in the middle normal range, and my free test is slightly above normal on anything over 200mg of Test (I don't have my lab work with me for exact numbers, but it's like 24 on just 100mg of test). My lipids have never been affected and always come back normal even with almost no estrogen, and I mean I want to feel good but I don't know how risky it is to keep e2 at such low levels constantly.
So one thing I've experienced is that I need to really tank my estrogen in order to get my libido up but also get all the feel-good benefits of test. And I'm talking really tank it.
Last experiment I did was 350mg of test e. for 8 weeks. Felt nothing as usual. So I added an entire pill of exemestane daily, which I knew was going to tank me but I wanted to see if this was a recurring theme. Sure enough, within a few days I felt great, libido through the roof, mood was elevated, attitude was almost arrogant..... kind of what you hear about Test making most people feel.
I got blood work, I already knew it was going to be horrible, and sure enough my sensitive E2 was at 8 pg/dl. EIGHT! So I lowered to half a pill per day, started losing all the benefits, then lowered to 1/4 pill per day and basically lost all the benefits.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this is though. I understand being at like 20, or even high teens, but eight???? Does anyone have an idea why my body would do this? My SHBG is right in the middle normal range, and my free test is slightly above normal on anything over 200mg of Test (I don't have my lab work with me for exact numbers, but it's like 24 on just 100mg of test). My lipids have never been affected and always come back normal even with almost no estrogen, and I mean I want to feel good but I don't know how risky it is to keep e2 at such low levels constantly.