Sospian
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After coming off gear a few years back I never fully recovered. I developed mild gynecomastia and a varicocele after PCT and then more or less lived through my early 20s with a limp ****.
During the Summer of 2019 I experimented with a trace mineral called Boron. To my surprise, within a few days my erection quality returned strong than ever before - for around about two weeks. After that it faded and Boron hasn't given me the same effect since (although it still does help).
I assumed this was a entirely down to Testosterone levels as my testicles grew by a very noticeable difference during the very short period of time I was on it.
In October I did a bloods. My T was 440ng/dl and E2 was on the lower end, so I decided to re-run PCT. My Testosterone levels peaked at around 1,450ng/dl yet I still seemed to have issues. My testicles were humongous. I mean, I couldn't even get anywhere close to closing my legs, yet the libido barely improved and EQ didn't shift at all. This baffled the hell out of me as all my other bloods were fine other than my higher-range prolactin levels and E2 (which was from the Clomid). The varicocele also become unbearably painful, although likewise I assumed it was just down the vein being choked harder. As my T and E2 dropped back down, so did the pain.
Since then I've been raising my T up naturally and am currently around 800ng/dl despite the varicocele. That being said, EQ still isn't the best and libido is unreliable. I have a very healthy lifestyle, although could never work out why Boron worked like magic the first time I used it. Cabergoline helped increase libido but not EQ, and Viagra didn't help with EQ either.
While asking a guy on Reddit for his take on varicoceles, he made the weirdest claim I had heard as of yet - Varicoceles are related to Estrogen. This confused me for a little bit so I asked him where he got his information from, and that's when he told me about Ray Peat.
I've been lurking here for the past two weeks sucking up all the information I can, and there seems to be two main theories to what cause varicoceles: the first being pelvic floor dysfunction (as PEGym also suggested) with the other being Estrogen.
I spent a lot of time working on pelvic floor tightness pre-lockdown and could almost do the front-splits although saw no progress with the varicocele or EQ.
Progeststerone cream directly on the veins & Vitamin E, as well as red-light therapy also saw no improvement. Actually, I've probably tried most things here, which is why I'm moving on to my next step: Letrozole.
Letrozole is an aromatese inhibitor that I formerly used to nuke old gynecomastia, although unfortunately it rebounded (which I believe to be because of my low T at the time).
This time I'm going to be very interested in the results. I know exercise will be hard on my joints for a good few weeks but it's worth the experiment.
Failing any success with Letrozole, I plan to move on to low-dose Proviron, which probably means I will have to run Nolvadex after to avoid any sort of HPTA shutdown. I'm pretty sure someone here posted that they managed to fix their varicocele within a few days of using Proviron.
So my question is: before I go and splash money of this drug, could Letrozole work in removing tissue estrogens from all over the body such as within varicoceles?
Cheers guys
During the Summer of 2019 I experimented with a trace mineral called Boron. To my surprise, within a few days my erection quality returned strong than ever before - for around about two weeks. After that it faded and Boron hasn't given me the same effect since (although it still does help).
I assumed this was a entirely down to Testosterone levels as my testicles grew by a very noticeable difference during the very short period of time I was on it.
In October I did a bloods. My T was 440ng/dl and E2 was on the lower end, so I decided to re-run PCT. My Testosterone levels peaked at around 1,450ng/dl yet I still seemed to have issues. My testicles were humongous. I mean, I couldn't even get anywhere close to closing my legs, yet the libido barely improved and EQ didn't shift at all. This baffled the hell out of me as all my other bloods were fine other than my higher-range prolactin levels and E2 (which was from the Clomid). The varicocele also become unbearably painful, although likewise I assumed it was just down the vein being choked harder. As my T and E2 dropped back down, so did the pain.
Since then I've been raising my T up naturally and am currently around 800ng/dl despite the varicocele. That being said, EQ still isn't the best and libido is unreliable. I have a very healthy lifestyle, although could never work out why Boron worked like magic the first time I used it. Cabergoline helped increase libido but not EQ, and Viagra didn't help with EQ either.
While asking a guy on Reddit for his take on varicoceles, he made the weirdest claim I had heard as of yet - Varicoceles are related to Estrogen. This confused me for a little bit so I asked him where he got his information from, and that's when he told me about Ray Peat.
I've been lurking here for the past two weeks sucking up all the information I can, and there seems to be two main theories to what cause varicoceles: the first being pelvic floor dysfunction (as PEGym also suggested) with the other being Estrogen.
I spent a lot of time working on pelvic floor tightness pre-lockdown and could almost do the front-splits although saw no progress with the varicocele or EQ.
Progeststerone cream directly on the veins & Vitamin E, as well as red-light therapy also saw no improvement. Actually, I've probably tried most things here, which is why I'm moving on to my next step: Letrozole.
Letrozole is an aromatese inhibitor that I formerly used to nuke old gynecomastia, although unfortunately it rebounded (which I believe to be because of my low T at the time).
This time I'm going to be very interested in the results. I know exercise will be hard on my joints for a good few weeks but it's worth the experiment.
Failing any success with Letrozole, I plan to move on to low-dose Proviron, which probably means I will have to run Nolvadex after to avoid any sort of HPTA shutdown. I'm pretty sure someone here posted that they managed to fix their varicocele within a few days of using Proviron.
So my question is: before I go and splash money of this drug, could Letrozole work in removing tissue estrogens from all over the body such as within varicoceles?
Cheers guys