Anyone else, venous leak with hypogonadism?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:31 pm
Hi all,
I posted in the welcome general forum but didn't receive any responses- I also didn't notice the under 40 forum for young people. My ED problem started sometime in the late 15th year of my life, I never had normal erections without pills before since, but before I had perfect erections in my shortlived teens. Until at least 27 I could get rock hard erections with the help of Levitra. Now, I cannot get erections at all with these drugs since starting HRT and rarely I can get them without them.
Venous leak is a proven result of hypogonadism. But I fear many if not most doctors wouldn't link the too, since they don't specialize in it. For myself I was told I was normal, even though my testosterone was under 200 at times, and I complained of all the symptoms such as ED which were always brushed off with a grain of salt.
I am now 31, soon to be 32 and started therapy with clomid and anastrozole. It worked well when I started (I didnt have anastrozole at the time) but now it seems to be making me worse. It has raised my testosterone to triple what it was, but I don't feel better. My Estrogen levels skyrocketed to over 250 and my T is hovering around 650. My TSH is also high (4.5 miu) which leads me to think I may have hypopituitarism.
For me it seems my next step if I dont miraculously improve by March will be testosterone injections with HCG. I am worried HCG will cause the same estrogen like effects as CLomid but at this point I am willing to try anything, especially to save my relationship...
If I could meet anyone on here with a similiar issue to be, I would be very pleased.
I posted in the welcome general forum but didn't receive any responses- I also didn't notice the under 40 forum for young people. My ED problem started sometime in the late 15th year of my life, I never had normal erections without pills before since, but before I had perfect erections in my shortlived teens. Until at least 27 I could get rock hard erections with the help of Levitra. Now, I cannot get erections at all with these drugs since starting HRT and rarely I can get them without them.
Venous leak is a proven result of hypogonadism. But I fear many if not most doctors wouldn't link the too, since they don't specialize in it. For myself I was told I was normal, even though my testosterone was under 200 at times, and I complained of all the symptoms such as ED which were always brushed off with a grain of salt.
I am now 31, soon to be 32 and started therapy with clomid and anastrozole. It worked well when I started (I didnt have anastrozole at the time) but now it seems to be making me worse. It has raised my testosterone to triple what it was, but I don't feel better. My Estrogen levels skyrocketed to over 250 and my T is hovering around 650. My TSH is also high (4.5 miu) which leads me to think I may have hypopituitarism.
For me it seems my next step if I dont miraculously improve by March will be testosterone injections with HCG. I am worried HCG will cause the same estrogen like effects as CLomid but at this point I am willing to try anything, especially to save my relationship...
If I could meet anyone on here with a similiar issue to be, I would be very pleased.