Aromatase inhibitors after gyno surgery
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I'm an 18 year old male with gynecomastia. I've had it since the beginning of high school. I'm currently opting for surgery since the mass has already hardened and it's too late for raloxifene or other SERMs.
Should i take a very small dose of an aromatase inhibitor every other day to keep the gyno from reoccuring after surgery? What happens if I stop cold turkey?
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Sorry for your misfortune. You're not alone though, many dudes get gyno when the androgens start kicking in during high-school. I knew a couple I went to school with that were pretty much the same. Not sure how I escaped it, I was a fat ass kid. After the hormones kicked in on me I lost some weight, so I guess I didn't have the genetics for it. Unfortunately weight isn't the only thing I lost. RIP my hair line, lol.
If I were you, I'd probably try a more gentle approach in the beginning. Like eating a bunch of cooked button mushrooms, and/or taking something like grape seed extract. Aromatase inhibitors can be rough. Hell I'm 30 and I won't even fuck with them. Anastrozole and letrozole can cause inflammation and autoimmune conditions. Exemestane is a suicidal AI, and can be pretty unforgiving if you take too much of it.
There's some good OTC AI's you might could try. I love Inhibit-E. It's not that clean though, they put silicon and titanium dioxide in it. But it's the only one that I've found lowers E2 just enough without actually crashing it. Iron Legion's Virtus is very strong, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're like on a TRT cycle or something.
I've also herd good things about Black Lion Research's Letrone. Never tried it myself though. It has green tea extract in it, which made me shy away from it because that inhibits DHT. I've also heard some people getting good results with Sustain Alpha, but that has resveratrol in it, which is questionable to say the least. Because of all this, I still think Inhibit-E is the best OTC AI. It's got some naughty fillers in it, but none of it's actives are really suspect.