
beefnewton
Bundy Lover
- Nov 11, 2022
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Over ten years ago, my natural Test levels had fallen to the 50's. After going through about six or seven doctors and a clinic, I gave up on "official" TRT and started learning and experimenting on my own. Over time, I did pretty well for myself. Past few months, however, I developed some pretty serious asymmetrical edema I just could not explain. I blamed it on my Rapamycin experiment. I blamed it on some accidental Primo overdosing. I blamed it on Minoxidil topical hair loss that had just absorbed too well. Rapamycin and Minoxidil are well known to cause edema... the Primo was the only other change I could try and blame. Long story short, I finally just dropped everything... and I mean everything. I'm not even taking Creatine anymore. The edema has now been fully resolved. In fact, I now realize I had been carrying around quite a bit of extra fluid I just did not know. Explains why my hydration levels always came back fine on InBody scans when I hardly ever drank anything.
So anyway, @Glycomann, this is in your wheelhouse. Random bouts of fatigue are starting to hit fairly hard, but other than that feel alright for the most part. What else can I expect? It's been two weeks since dropping everything. I didn't feel much dropping Proviron and Anavar a week prior. I was always on the fence over Primo, but I am one of those it does help with E2. Test P and Mast P, however, those were my favorites. I've got a requisition ready to go for a big spread. When would be a good time to realistically expect things to have stabilized for bloodwork after having been using year-round for 10+ years? Two months? Three months? Still don't know where the fucking edema came from... maybe a combination of what I stated, but the intensity really did seem to follow the Primo dosing.
I don't plan on staying off, unless by some chance I end up with testicles in better shape than when I started. It just feels like it's time for an attempt at a reset. I had low Test my entire life (200's/300's even as adolescent and young adult). It seemed like it took a very long time for my body to figure out what the fuck to do with "normal" levels, but it did happen. I feel best in the 800's nowadays, but I see no likelihood my natural levels will wake up to that level. I'm not even taking hCG anymore.
I am sleeping a lot better, though. Deeply and dreaming. So AAS were definitely affecting that... for a very long time.
So anyway, @Glycomann, this is in your wheelhouse. Random bouts of fatigue are starting to hit fairly hard, but other than that feel alright for the most part. What else can I expect? It's been two weeks since dropping everything. I didn't feel much dropping Proviron and Anavar a week prior. I was always on the fence over Primo, but I am one of those it does help with E2. Test P and Mast P, however, those were my favorites. I've got a requisition ready to go for a big spread. When would be a good time to realistically expect things to have stabilized for bloodwork after having been using year-round for 10+ years? Two months? Three months? Still don't know where the fucking edema came from... maybe a combination of what I stated, but the intensity really did seem to follow the Primo dosing.
I don't plan on staying off, unless by some chance I end up with testicles in better shape than when I started. It just feels like it's time for an attempt at a reset. I had low Test my entire life (200's/300's even as adolescent and young adult). It seemed like it took a very long time for my body to figure out what the fuck to do with "normal" levels, but it did happen. I feel best in the 800's nowadays, but I see no likelihood my natural levels will wake up to that level. I'm not even taking hCG anymore.
I am sleeping a lot better, though. Deeply and dreaming. So AAS were definitely affecting that... for a very long time.
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