Is Arimidex Required while on HRT?

[milo0071]

I'm currently on HRT and injecting 250 mg Test Cyp per week (my doctor authorized 200 mg, but I add a bit more - tests are still fine). I find that my abdomen is somewhat distended which I assume is due to water retention. Would Arimidex be useful to treat this? If so, what would be a good dose and frequency?

[hardasnails1973]

Originally Posted by milo0071

I'm currently on HRT and injecting 250 mg Test Cyp per week (my doctor authorized 200 mg, but I add a bit more - tests are still fine). I find that my abdomen is somewhat distended which I assume is due to water retention. Would Arimidex be useful to treat this? If so, what would be a good dose and frequency?

You are not on appropiate TRT Protocol so this is why one is experiencing these side effects. With out doing blood work in 5-6 weeks then one will not know.

[hlg848]

Originally Posted by hardasnails1973

You are not on appropiate TRT Protocol so this is why one is experiencing these side effects. With out doing blood work in 5-6 weeks then one will not know.

HAN1973 is right - If you are going to call it HRT then use the amount your doctor RX'd and have you blood tested every 12 weeks. 5-6 weeks is a careful approach but not needed in my doctors opinion. I've been on doses as high as 750mg a week of test and never had a problem with my gut being distended.

If you are going to take more than the 200mg prescribed then you should stack the test with an anabolic like nandrolone or bolderone (EQ) for best results. I personally like the effects I see with only 200mg a week. No bloat, no headaches, no moon face (aromatization), lower BP and increased leanness.

Good luck with this.

H

[pmgamer18]

I would have to say yes I don't know to many men on TRT not treating there high levels of Estradol with Arimidex. I do what is = to 200 mgs a week. But I do my shots every 3 days 80mgs and I do 400 IU's of HCG the 2 days each in between my T shots. I do this because I eat up the T as fast as I shoot it. And this keeps me more leveled and the smaller shot holds down Estradiol levels. I can get by taking 1/4 of a one mgs pill of arimidex every 2 to 3 days to keep my Estradiol levels good. Before doing this on shots once a week I need to use 1 mg every other day of Arimidex to keep my levels down. This can lower IGF-1 and lipid levels. Here is how I taking Arimidex do I don't go down to low.
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What I found is if you go to low taking arimidex, it's the length of time your to low, if your too low say for 8 weeks it can take your body a longer time to make more Estradiol. Bottom line is to know how not to go to low. Keep a log on your dose and how you feel men going to low can't get it up taking Viagra. I went to low when I first tried Arimidex and did not know about going to low or how one feels to low, so I was low a good 8 weeks. I did not know I was low until my next labs.

The best gage I have found to control your Estradiol levels is to gage your night time and morning wood. At good levels or what I call the sweet spot you get your night time and morning wood back so strong it will wake you up and you can hang a coat on it.

Most men do good taking .25 mgs or 1/4 of a 1mg. pill, I use a pill cutter to cut the small pill in half then I stand it on the cut end and use a single edge razor to cut this in half. A good way to take arimidex is by how high your levels are. I tested over 90 pg/ml so we tried doing .5 mgs every other day after 8 weeks my next set of labs showed it did not move below 90, test said >90. So we did .5 mgs. every day in about 2 weeks I got some strong night time and morning wood back after not having them for many yrs.

I kept doing this dose and in 8 weeks my next set of labs said <20 back in the day labs were like this they did not have to good labs we have today they could not read lower the 20. My Dr. told me this looks to low to stop taking the Arimidex. The one thing I noticed was my wood stopped and stopping the Arimidex my wood came back in about 7 weeks my next test at 8 weeks was 24 pg/ml. So we went back on the Arimidex but the Dr. told me to take .5 mgs every 3 days I was on this dose not a week and lost wood. This is when I figured out going to low you lose wood. And the longer your too low the longer it takes to get levels back up.

I stopped the arimidex right away and got my wood back in 4 days. I then after playing with the dose for a time found the best dose is .25mgs every 2 to 3 days.

So lets say your labs are less the 50 pg/ml if your take .5 mgs you can go down so dam fast your miss the sweet spot of your wood and go to low. It's best with lower levels 50 and under to do less Arimidex .25mgs every 2 days if later your lose wood when it comes back go to every 3 days.

I have found estradiol is the hardest hormone to control, it goes up or down from month to month some times I need .25mgs every 2 days other times I need .25mgs everyday most of the time I do well on every 3 days.

So between wood and labs I do great and so do most of the men I have told this to. I keep a log on how much I am taking and how I feel. Doing this and reading back in my log I was able to tell when I was going to high or to low my Dr. lets me dose my arimidex by how I feel.

Over the yrs. I have posted this story until I am blue in the face.

[milo0071]

Originally Posted by pmgamer18

I would have to say yes I don't know to many men on TRT not treating there high levels of Estradol with Arimidex. I do what is = to 200 mgs a week. But I do my shots every 3 days 80mgs and I do 400 IU's of HCG the 2 days each in between my T shots. I do this because I eat up the T as fast as I shoot it. And this keeps me more leveled and the smaller shot holds down Estradiol levels. I can get by taking 1/4 of a one mgs pill of arimidex every 2 to 3 days to keep my Estradiol levels good. Before doing this on shots once a week I need to use 1 mg every other day of Arimidex to keep my levels down. This can lower IGF-1 and lipid levels. Here is how I taking Arimidex do I don't go down to low.
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Thanks pmgamer, some very good advice. I have Liquidex that I have only used when on cycle, but I probably will continue off cycle.

Originally Posted by hlg848

If you are going to take more than the 200mg prescribed then you should stack the test with an anabolic like nandrolone or bolderone (EQ) for best results. I personally like the effects I see with only 200mg a week. No bloat, no headaches, no moon face (aromatization), lower BP and increased leanness. .

hlg848, I also use 300 mg deca while on a 10 week cycle. Are you suggesting I always stay on a cycle?

[zkt]

Edema is usually most noticible in the feet ankles and moves up the body with severity. Edema in the abdomen only is called acites and is due to deceased levels of serum albumin usually of liver disfunction origin.
Arimidex might be useful but so might Mylanta. Try the least destructful things first. 250mg/week sounds more like a cycle than TRT. You`re gonna shrink your balls fast at the rate youre going.

Originally Posted by milo0071

I'm currently on HRT and injecting 250 mg Test Cyp per week (my doctor authorized 200 mg, but I add a bit more - tests are still fine). I find that my abdomen is somewhat distended which I assume is due to water retention. Would Arimidex be useful to treat this? If so, what would be a good dose and frequency?

[milo0071]

Originally Posted by zkt

Edema is usually most noticible in the feet ankles and moves up the body with severity. Edema in the abdomen only is called acites and is due to deceased levels of serum albumin usually of liver disfunction origin.
Arimidex might be useful but so might Mylanta. Try the least destructful things first. 250mg/week sounds more like a cycle than TRT. You`re gonna shrink your balls fast at the rate youre going.

My balls are fine - I also take 2x350iu's HCG per week spread 3.5 days apart.