How fast does progesterone reduce muscle mass and androgens?
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Only for those who have personal experience with progesterone!
How fast did you notice progesterone shrinks muscles and reduce androgenic features like beard growth and body hair growth?
I'm male and was exposed by accident to an androgen a few weeks ago, which even in a low dose has caused many changes like bigger and harder muscles, deeper voice, more body hair growth and beard, even hands and feet appear bigger due to water retention and cartiliage swelling. The changes don't appear to be going away, so I'm wondering if a short course of progesterone or another safe "anti-androgen" will help? Experiences with this?
I know people take progesterone together with an androgen like DHEA or testosterone, and does the progesterone really cancel out all the androgenic features of those male steroids at the right ratio? What if the progesterone is taken weeks after the exposure to the androgen?
What dose of progesterone and how many doses taken did you notice most anti-androgenic effects from? Do the anti-androgenic effect fade within days of stopping progesterone, and then the previous androgen level comes back? How does it work based on how you felt when you used it?
Please only personal experience, I know the theories of how it's supposed to work
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@waterbottle are you a male or female?
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@risingfire Wrote it in my post
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@waterbottle What androgen exactly were you exposed to?
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@tubert I assume it was testosterone, although could have been another androgen. I was in contact with people who used anabolic steroids around the time. Either way, the "dose" I was exposed to is probably minimal, like 1 mg I assume. But the changes are extreme though.
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None of this happened from exposure to a single 1mg dose of anything.
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@Mallard6146 Have you personally used androgens? I guess the exposure was more than that then.
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@waterbottle then why wouldn't you want more masculine features?
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@risingfire
It's not just "maculinity". It looks deformed in some ways, like shoulders or other muscles sticking out, doesn't look healthy or natural. -
@waterbottle One small dose of steroids most likely did not do that to you. Was probably from something else
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@PrinceTrebata It's the most likely explanation. My doctor did many tests for androgen producing tumors, but it came up negative. So the androgen must have come from somewhere
