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@pannacottas No but Ive tried memantine, and I prefer to amantadine on every metric except the long half life (makes sleep impossble for me). Bromantane might be my saving grace though since its half life is not as much and I heard is more dopaminergic than either memantine or amantadine.

@Milk-Destroyer Thank you. It's definitely not something I want to bring up with the person. The inflammation makes sense. I think it stems from feelings of inferiority, like I won't be able to do what the person I'm jealous of is doing. Whenever I start working hard, but am self-focused and not trying to keep up with them, the anxiety and jealousy seems to go away.

@Verdad I would imagine cypro would reduce a lot of the trauma responses that lead people to cope with substances.

How's your thyroid, what's your waking up temp? It's probably not good since your sleep is bad.

@CO3 Kindly elaborate. Which conditions would make it worthwhile? I feel quite good as it is.

@latin some animal growth plate never close some reason

@latin said in Daily progest-E for 23 yo male safe?:

What negative reactions did you have to progest, and why do you think thyroid helped?

I would get really cold after only small dosages of progesterone. I think it was killing my stress response but I didn't have enough thyroid to keep my basal metabolic rate high. It may have also been liberating estrogens from my tissues, compounding the problem even more.

When I started to successfully implement thyroid I noticed a lot of my symptoms were gradually disappearing, but I would get these acute bursts of adrenaline that were very intense and unpleasurable. I don't exactly know what was causing that. I can only presume it must have been my thyroid and adrenals trying to establish a new equilibrium. I remember Ray saying that sometimes people will be more sensitive to adrenaline when they first start thyroid, but it levels out after you get your dose tailored correctly.

When I re-added the progesterone back in, it no longer made me cold. It would blunt the adrenaline response at a sufficient enough dose, and since thyroid will correct estrogen:testosterone ratios, it wasn't causing anymore estrogen symptoms like nipple sensitivity. All I had was what I like to call that "calm serenity" feeling, which can turn into a dopey feeling if you take too much P4, so it's important to get the dose right.

Also, this may vary from person to person, but as long as I keep my thyroid dose consistent, I don't need to do P4 daily if I don't want. I'd only do it on a especially stressful day, because once I broke that initial stress cycle thyroid is enough to keep my progesterone levels where they should be.

@latin said in Daily progest-E for 23 yo male safe?:

What dose were you taking?

I take 9-10 drops of progest-e. Roughly 30-35 milligrams. But that's not indicative of what you should be doing necessarily. If you're a man, my motto on P4 is to take whatever minimal dose is effective for the symptoms. For me that's around 30mgs. Which can actually start to be anti-androgenic, but I've notice it can still actually increase my libido at that dose. Weird, but I guess the anti-stress effect outweighs the anti-androgen effect and created a better erection for me.

@latin said in Daily progest-E for 23 yo male safe?:

I have t3+t4, but don’t know how to properly take it.

This can get tricky, lol. First I recommend measuring your temps, before AND after breakfast. Additionally, getting a TSH test will let you know more as well. Anything over 2.5 mU/L is definitely subclinical hypothyroidism. Emphasis on subclinical. Meaning docs won't diagnose you, but you still have the increased disease risk associated with hypothyroidism.

If your temps and tsh checks out, then I recommend taking thyroid the Broda Barnes method. Start with 1/2 grain and stay there for 3 weeks before taking more. Then up the dose to 1 grain, stay there for 3 weeks before taking more. Follow that pattern until symptoms subside. I use TyroMix, and I take it by mouth. This is important, because I see a lot of people thinking it's a transdermal product. With something like thyroid, you want to take it orally. Just put 3 drops in a small glass of juice or a empty capsule and take it.