Sleep: Have had problems sleeping since grad school work, mind got busy and sleeping was not easy. Now with age, things are worse. Many sleep aids are really only Benadryl ingredient, same dose, different box and more expensive. Problem is that it wears out in 4 hours and may let you wake up in the middle of the night.
After years on that I switched to:
Rx trazodone, very inexpensive 90 x 150mg for $10
5mg time release melatonin, really needs to be time release, otherwise you wake up
Try starting at 50mg, 1/3rd tablet. You may need to progress to 75 or 100. Very potent at first, so start low. Does not have any drag over effects when dosed properly. It is a anti-depressant that really did not succeed because it makes people sleepy. If you have some mood problems, it might make an improvement in your life above and beyond getting proper sleep. Does not have any of the effects of SSRI’s, you will not feel like your brain is getting re-wired.
You need to know if the DHT lab ranges are age adjusted. The intent of HRT is to restore youthful levels of hormones. I do labs every six months, when I turned 60, suddenly my hormones were out of range! You should be able to argue for youthful levels.
And point out that there is no evidence that androgens cause prostate problems, only that cancers are androgen positive when they occur, and that modern research is showing that estrogens and estrogen dominance is the cause of BPH. And that low T causes estrogen dominance. Also low T reduces or stops sexual activity and lack of ejaculations leads to rancid semen and results in inflammation that then affects the prostate. Chronic inflammation is a well known cause of cancers.
The fact that prostate cancers can be treated with androgen deprivation and that this reduces bulk and PSA levels as the organ withers, does not in any why mean that androgens were the cause. You can also shrink a healthy prostate with androgen deprivation.
If DHT caused prostate cancers, then we would not see this as an old man’s disease. Men are afflicted when their T levels are low and they are estrogen dominant and also suffering from many other metabolic disorders of old age.
What I have not seen done, is to use 5-alpha reductase inhibitors to modulate DHT levels; instead of DHT–>zero. That would be an option, small doses. Some herbal prostate products might do this and many guys should be using these as a long term survival strategy.
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You need to know if the DHT lab ranges are age adjusted. The intent of HRT is to restore youthful levels of hormones. I do labs every six months, when I turned 60, suddenly my hormones were out of range! You should be able to argue for youthful levels.
And point out that there is no evidence that androgens cause prostate problems, only that cancers are androgen positive when they occur, and that modern research is showing that estrogens and estrogen dominance is the cause of BPH. And that low T causes estrogen dominance. Also low T reduces or stops sexual activity and lack of ejaculations leads to rancid semen and results in inflammation that then affects the prostate. Chronic inflammation is a well known cause of cancers.
The fact that prostate cancers can be treated with androgen deprivation and that this reduces bulk and PSA levels as the organ withers, does not in any why mean that androgens were the cause. You can also shrink a healthy prostate with androgen deprivation.
If DHT caused prostate cancers, then we would not see this as an old man’s disease. Men are afflicted when their T levels are low and they are estrogen dominant and also suffering from many other metabolic disorders of old age.
What I have not seen done, is to use 5-alpha reductase inhibitors to modulate DHT levels; instead of DHT–>zero. That would be an option, small doses. Some herbal prostate products might do this and many guys should be using these as a long term survival strategy.
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lol this is funny… Yet my urologist had never measure estrogen in males… He laughed at me when i asked for the test and said i don’t look like a woman to him… also thank you very much for your time!! much obliged…
If you wouldn’t mind poking into my thread to give me a little insight. I’m still working on honing my E2 in which I expect will help my situation but I am also wondering if it is wise to reduce my TRT dose.
What is a syndrome? It is a observation of related symptoms/conditions.
It seems that we have a syndrome of hypothyroidism and subclincal hypothyroidism. Some of which seems to be related to iodine deficiency [ID]. So are TRT guys really more prone to iodine deficiency? Maybe we are simply asking the right questions here. If the general population is ID, then we can expect to see that in the TRT population.
The combined effects of low T and some degree of functional hypothyroidism is synergisticly bad, 2+2=5. The major hormone systems affect each other, a hypothalamus/pituitary function is not going to work well when one is hypothyroid. Mental function has compound problems from adrenal, pituitary, thyroid, testicular insufficiencies. Libido is a mental function.
I get frustrated by the collective reading disabilities or lack of concentration that requires that I repeatedly ask for the same info over and over. Lack of focus is a symptom.