libido slipping after just gained back!!!!!

[loopy107]

well after 2 weeks on 2 shots per week my libido started coming back not strong but good enough to have sex every day the for like 5 days striaght. This past monday I did a shot and took arimidex 1/8 of a tab and since that day my erection arent as good as the past two weeks but I still have erections. Since monday I havent thought about sex as much either. Today I did a shot this morning( I did have morning wood by the way but not great but it was there) and havent really felt the libido that I was feeling last week going into this week. I had sex about 4-5 times per day from last friday until tuesday this week. But mon and tuesday it was a little weaker after the shot and arimidex on mon morning.

So today's shot hasn't done anything yet and I didnt take any arimidex since monday. The arimidex I took mon was only 1/8 of a tab and I didnt think it was enough to do anything.

I'm not sure if after 2-3 week of doing 2 shots per day maybe my E2 balanced out but a little high and thats why or if 1/8 arimidex caused the issue. But if I did a shot today I figured that if the arimidex lower it to much that todays shot would be enough to raise it but nothing at all.

I woundering if I should take arimidex to see if my E2 went up or not take it?
I liked what I felt before the last 3-4 days of when it got a little weaker. What I did notice was even before I lost a little sex drive that I still had brain frog the whole time.

When I was taking arimidex at .25 every 5 days and doing 1 shot per week it cleared my head and mood very well but I just could seem to balance E2 on 1 shot per week.

Can anyone help with any info please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pmgamer18]

Originally Posted by loopy107

well after 2 weeks on 2 shots per week my libido started coming back not strong but good enough to have sex every day the for like 5 days striaght. This past monday I did a shot and took arimidex 1/8 of a tab and since that day my erection arent as good as the past two weeks but I still have erections. Since monday I havent thought about sex as much either. Today I did a shot this morning( I did have morning wood by the way but not great but it was there) and havent really felt the libido that I was feeling last week going into this week. I had sex about 4-5 times per day from last friday until tuesday this week. But mon and tuesday it was a little weaker after the shot and arimidex on mon morning.

So today's shot hasn't done anything yet and I didnt take any arimidex since monday. The arimidex I took mon was only 1/8 of a tab and I didnt think it was enough to do anything.

I'm not sure if after 2-3 week of doing 2 shots per day maybe my E2 balanced out but a little high and thats why or if 1/8 arimidex caused the issue. But if I did a shot today I figured that if the arimidex lower it to much that todays shot would be enough to raise it but nothing at all.

I woundering if I should take arimidex to see if my E2 went up or not take it?
I liked what I felt before the last 3-4 days of when it got a little weaker. What I did notice was even before I lost a little sex drive that I still had brain frog the whole time.

When I was taking arimidex at .25 every 5 days and doing 1 shot per week it cleared my head and mood very well but I just could seem to balance E2 on 1 shot per week.

Can anyone help with any info please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have to try some thing you getting to high or to low and until you can tell by how you feel your going to have this problem. Try taking some arimidex if wood comes back then you know if not then your to low.

[loopy107]

Originally Posted by pmgamer18

You have to try some thing you getting to high or to low and until you can tell by how you feel your going to have this problem. Try taking some arimidex if wood comes back then you know if not then your to low.

A couple of days have gone by since I complained about this problem but since then my nipples are not sensitive at all and I havent really been waking up with wood so I know I low. My brain fog acually got better . I've done 3 shots of 60mg since I took 1/8 of arimidex last mon and those shots I think have not raised my E2 enough yet to bring back morning erections. If my girl touchec me then I'll have an erection. I hope I dont have to wait that much longer before my E2 goes up. I regret taking the 1/8 arimidex cause I was have morning wood every day and my libido kicked in after 2 week of doing shots every 3 days.

I notice that I havent really been experiencing shrinkage of the nuts since I've been doing shots in the delts as much as when I was doing it in the glutes. I'm not sure if this means anything!!!!

[Prospero]

Originally Posted by loopy107

A couple of days have gone by since I complained about this problem but since then my nipples are not sensitive at all and I havent really been waking up with wood so I know I low. My brain fog acually got better . I've done 3 shots of 60mg since I took 1/8 of arimidex last mon and those shots I think have not raised my E2 enough yet to bring back morning erections. If my girl touchec me then I'll have an erection. I hope I dont have to wait that much longer before my E2 goes up. I regret taking the 1/8 arimidex cause I was have morning wood every day and my libido kicked in after 2 week of doing shots every 3 days.

Arimidex has a half-life of a few days, so it is not your problem. New E2 is produced all the time, so that 1/8 tab or 0.125mg doesn't matter anymore.

I'm taking 0.25mg EACH DAY and my E2 is not too low.. I had libido back for two weeks too, just with arimidex at that dose, and it disappeared in about two weeks. I'd be willing to say that in your case too your body just adapted and something changed so that libido disappeared. Really, we have no idea what controls libido. We just have some gross idea what prevents it. Perhaps in my case fixing E2 caused some other problem to appear, and the new problem made havoc with libido. In another thread I've posted my E2 values, so I'm definitely not too low. E2 does control binding globulins, so perhaps for two weeks I got higher free testo and T4 and cortisol, and body compensated in two weeks by lowering totals.. Perhaps in your case SHBG increased or..

Two weeks seems to be the time for many that something changes.. Starting TRT, some feel great for two weeks, and then it stops. Read the old posts.. It seems to be the time for those starting T4 replacement for hypothyroidism too.. First two weeks they feel great and then back to old not-so-great..

I'd be willing to guess 1-2 weeks is a time constant for human body endocrinological feedback system.. Put in some external hormone and body adapts in two weeks by controlling internal production of hormones/binding globulines.

Just an un-educated opinion, a mere hypothesis. Food for thoughs.

[gregxy]

Yup, lots of things will work for 2-3 weeks to boost your libido then stop:

1 Starting Testosteone shots,
2 Supressing estrogen with Arimidex (even without the testosteone shots)
3. Stopping an antridepressent like lexapro (probably causes a dopamine rebound)


Perhaps that is how long it takes the receptors to down regulate after the change in
hormone levels.

The other possibility is that this is how things are supposed to work. Maybe libido
responds to the change in hormone level rather than the absolute level. Note that
the female system has a "cycle length" of about 3 weeks. There maybe some connection.

Or maybe it is all a plecebo effect.

[pmgamer18]

Yes this can happen in 2 weeks just like treating thyroid one goes on armour and in 2 weeks there pituitary slows down on TSH and you are hypo again. So one needs more Armour it takes about 3 grains of Armour to bring TSH near Zero and is a full replacement. Just like TRT lows LH and FSH you need your levels up high enough to do the job your testis were doing.

This is why you need to bring your Testosterone levels up into the upper 1/3 of your labs range for a young man. And keep your E2 down between 10 to 30 best at 20.

Also there some men that need to add in Cialis 10 mgs to 20 mgs every 72 hrs to over come the Idea your penis will not work for sex. In most cases you fix the problem and your brain undoes it. Also some have not had morning wood in so long they need the Cialis for a time so they have them. Having them rebuilds your penis and is dam good for it.