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Originally Posted by LarryCopano
Thank you. And I glad for you that you moved to Sweden where they actually believe you and don't tell you that it's all in your head!
My endo started out with very low doses too, and I don't know what my normal levels were when I was young, but I swear I had more than that. We have just started on combining estrogen and testosterone... before we were doing one or the other.
One of our experiments with T made it clear that testosterone is CLEARLY correlated to arousal, because I had an immediate very high response to the medication.  Nothing that a placebo effect could imitate. But over the next few months it died down considerably, as if my body somehow got used to it??? My doc can't explain it either. |
What kind of T do they have you on? Is it a pill or a topical gel? At first I took Estratest, an estrogen pill combine with testosterone and I had the same problem as you. Huge sex drive at the beginning but then it was like I got used to it and that died off. Then we switched and I got out on an estrogen patch and a topical T gel, which has worked much much better. I am very happy with e results. My doc said trans dermal hormones work much better than oral ones because they don't have to be metabolized through the liver and kidneys. Metabolizing them means less hormone gets into your bloodstream. We had to experiment with the dosage and my doctor gave me prescriptions and told me to keep a diary and adjust (either adding or taking less) of each hormone over a period of time until I felt really good. That's something my american doctor wouldn't have dreamed of doing. But after about 4-6 weeks of experimenting with dosage myself I got the perfect amount. Now I have a great libido and no menopause symptoms.
I hope you get it figured out, I know how miserable it can be. *hugs*
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