Low Estrogen from Androsterone

mavuue

Hi all, I'm looking for anyone with experience with taking Andro from idealabs,
I've used dosages up to 10mg a day, both topical and oral showing no difference in potency/side effects

I found higher dosages to not show much of a difference, maybe slightly higher DHT effects, but at any dosage I get what I believe to be low E symptoms as Andro is an aromatase inhibitor.

Even taking it at 1-2mg each day, I ended up with ED, low libido and EXTREMELY cracky/sore joints, these symptoms all appear on the same day I dose it, and completely erase my morning wood. All symptoms combined were enough to make me come off of it.
Would anyone have any suggestions as to prevent it from lowering estrogen so much? Or know of any other potential reasons it's causing those symptoms?

I also have PanSterone on hand, which brought my libido back to life. Using TyroMix 12 drops/ed orally to treat hypothyroidism.

GubbeniLådan

I have experienced the same. I started using it without any bad side effects, and I took andro on off for a couple months. After awhile worse and worse symtoms such as low libido (My sex ability was fine but my desire was near 0), anhedonia, apathy all manifested which scared me as they were strong.

It took some time but eventually I correlated this to low estrogen and I went to have my levels checked and they came back as:

estradiol: 95 (pmol/L)
testosterone: 26 (nmol/L)
free testosterone: 15(nmol/L)
SHBG: 28(nmol/L)

The estrogen is right in the middle of the reference range which was very strange. I did still feel all the symptoms but I hadn't taken the Andro for a couple of days before the test.

Aromatase Inhibitors are quite scary, I read on Excelmale forum about something called PAMD or Post AI Major Dysfunction where symtoms are basically like PSSD from finasteride or SSRIs. https://www.excelmale.com/threads/persistent-low-e2-symptoms-lasting-long-after-crash-possible-solution-or-a-little-relief.27402/

Now a couple months after I still don't feel back to how I was but I am able to function. I didn't use much Andro but on one occasion I applied roughly 20 drops to my scrotum (it is following this that much of the negative symptoms started).