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Why testosterone?

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Denise Didi:
Hi I used for about a year but had to try other things first. My libido was not the problem but no energy, fatigue and it really helped with that.

WishIdknownsooner:

--- Quote from: AngelaH on July 15, 2023, 10:49:07 AM ---
My HRT doesn’t work for me and I am trying to think why. Just pump oestrogen to my body makes me much worse than without pumping it. I was born as a hairy girl, I mean all my life I have to fight with my hair over my whole body, even in parts, where ladies normally don’t have hair at all.  ::) But apart from that I never had problems, my periods were normal, I didn’t have a problem to conceive and give a birth, I am a normal lady, just more hairy, than others  8). But now I have noticed that my usual hair on my lags, for example,  started growing more slowly than before, in some parts of my body it disappeared at all.  Now I look  like a normal lady :o  But I feel rubbish  :'( This is why I think now about testosterone, I think I was born with much higher level of it, than lady needs and the problem is now really low level of testosterone as well in my body?  ???

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Hi, do you suffer with PCOS at all? I’m peri and have had excess hair, but regular periods all my life. Scans showed PCOS, although blood tests were normal.  I also have darker skin on my neck and groin, another symptom of PCOS. Also being overweight.  Anyway, the doctor at Newsons said women who’ve had higher than average testosterone levels in younger life (as those of us with PCOS do) suffer more with low testosterone in peri, when t begins to decline - we really feel it, often more than the decline in oestrogen.  I only fancy sex one week a month, and my energy and muscle tone has declined sharply.  Also the brain fog…. Argh! Sure enough, my free androgen index was really low. I’ve just started testosterone gel and am hoping for the best. Im on a very low dose of oestrogen and that seems enough for me.  I believe people in peri with PCOS have even more of a hormonal rollercoaster than normal!

Flossy:
Interested in this thread as I have just started on Tostran a few days ago. After reading posts on here I have started on a v small amount (prob the 'petit pois' size that I have read on here) daily. I am interested in how much other women are using (of Tostran) as wondering if 1 pump every other day (or twice a week) would be better (and easier to measure accurately.

orrla, which brand of testosterone are you using and what is your dose, if you don't mind me asking?

Other than libido my main hope from it is improved energy, motivation and muscle mass, I do a lot of sports and def find it more tiring than I used to. Just a bit impatient so don't want to start on too low a dose!

AngelaH:

--- Quote from: WishIdknownsooner on September 07, 2023, 06:26:21 AM ---Hi, do you suffer with PCOS at all? I’m peri and have had excess hair, but regular periods all my life. Scans showed PCOS, although blood tests were normal.  I also have darker skin on my neck and groin, another symptom of PCOS. Also being overweight.  Anyway, the doctor at Newsons said women who’ve had higher than average testosterone levels in younger life (as those of us with PCOS do) suffer more with low testosterone in peri, when t begins to decline - we really feel it, often more than the decline in oestrogen.  I only fancy sex one week a month, and my energy and muscle tone has declined sharply.  Also the brain fog…. Argh! Sure enough, my free androgen index was really low. I’ve just started testosterone gel and am hoping for the best. Im on a very low dose of oestrogen and that seems enough for me.  I believe people in peri with PCOS have even more of a hormonal rollercoaster than normal!

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Hello WishIdknowsooner  :)

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I don’t think I had PCOS when I was in my reproductive age, excess hair is probably the only one symptom which I had, but I never been checked by Dr and never been tested, so there is possibility I had it, just didn’t know about it. I remember I had a friend, she was diagnosed with PCOS in her early 30th, as far as I remember all the symptoms which she had where nothing like mine, apart from excess hair. My peri was a nightmare, I don’t know if I am still there or have moved to the next stage - meno or even post because of Mirena coil. All my peri symptoms were successfully treated with a small dose of progesterone (Mirena) 4 years ago, but now some symptoms have returned back I also have a new one - cold flashes. GP thinks my estrogen level has dropped and prescribed me Oestrogel, the problem is my body is definitely not happy with pumping estrogen in it, so I don’t think my GP is right. It is more likely that my old problem from peri is returning back (due to the end of Mirena life) and I still need progesterone more than estrogen. I have managed to make an appointment with GP only in October to discuss it. Question about testosterone still open for me as well.

 Good luck with your treatment, I hope it will help you. It means a lot when you know what exactly is going wrong in your body, so it makes easier for you to find right treatment to fix it.

AngelaH:
Thanks to all lovely Ladies who posted their experience on here. What I can see that all 3 sex hormones have very similar symptoms if level of them drops. It really makes hard to understand which hormone needs to be lifted up.

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