ladysmanfelpz
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Hey everybody.
New to the forum and kind of posting for a different reason. I was very into fitness and bettering myself, but chose a different route than androgens. I noticed I was balding and got into anti-androgens. I started with Finasteride (DHT inhibitor for those that don't know) shortly after turning 22. Being an inpatient young adult and from my research found I wouldn't get any regrowth from a DHT inhibitor alone, so I jumped on spironolactone. I'm sure many of you have heard of it but basically it is a diuretic with some T receptor binding properties. Many bodybuilders use it to cut hard at the end of cycle and use it to up free T as well. Well the hair loss guys do it different and take it long term. I went a total of around 8 months. Here's my story.
After starting I noticed hairloss stopped and even started to see regrowth after about 1.5 months. Kept going with it and not seeing any side effects. I also completely dropped Fin by this time and just went with Spiro at about 50-100 mg a day. At about 2 months I had a huge jump in T that was steroid like. I'm guessing because I was young my body's T production was competing with this drug big time and I had massive amounts of free T. I was ripped, heavier and healthier than I had ever been. I lived like this for about 2.5 months until it slowly started to get to normal. At about 6 months I had a bad blackout while drinking (prolly due to the diuretic effects) and decided to drop. Being a steroid I couldn't just drop cold turkey so had to wean off over the next 2 months to a total of about 8 months time. And it was at this time after dropping a drug that you truly understand how powerful it was as I felt like shit for the next 6 months and even felt effects up to about 2 years out.
So my question is what is the possibility I did permanent damage to my T production? I had bloodwork shortly after stopping and it was low 400's. Had it done recently (now 27, had just turned 24 after stopping Spiro) and it was mid 600's and 16.6 pg/ml free. It is supposed to only be a weak competitive inhibitor. It is also prescribed to men for its diuretic effects, but rarely prescribed for a reason such as mine. Just wanted to know if you guys had any thoughts. Lmk if you have any questions.
New to the forum and kind of posting for a different reason. I was very into fitness and bettering myself, but chose a different route than androgens. I noticed I was balding and got into anti-androgens. I started with Finasteride (DHT inhibitor for those that don't know) shortly after turning 22. Being an inpatient young adult and from my research found I wouldn't get any regrowth from a DHT inhibitor alone, so I jumped on spironolactone. I'm sure many of you have heard of it but basically it is a diuretic with some T receptor binding properties. Many bodybuilders use it to cut hard at the end of cycle and use it to up free T as well. Well the hair loss guys do it different and take it long term. I went a total of around 8 months. Here's my story.
After starting I noticed hairloss stopped and even started to see regrowth after about 1.5 months. Kept going with it and not seeing any side effects. I also completely dropped Fin by this time and just went with Spiro at about 50-100 mg a day. At about 2 months I had a huge jump in T that was steroid like. I'm guessing because I was young my body's T production was competing with this drug big time and I had massive amounts of free T. I was ripped, heavier and healthier than I had ever been. I lived like this for about 2.5 months until it slowly started to get to normal. At about 6 months I had a bad blackout while drinking (prolly due to the diuretic effects) and decided to drop. Being a steroid I couldn't just drop cold turkey so had to wean off over the next 2 months to a total of about 8 months time. And it was at this time after dropping a drug that you truly understand how powerful it was as I felt like shit for the next 6 months and even felt effects up to about 2 years out.
So my question is what is the possibility I did permanent damage to my T production? I had bloodwork shortly after stopping and it was low 400's. Had it done recently (now 27, had just turned 24 after stopping Spiro) and it was mid 600's and 16.6 pg/ml free. It is supposed to only be a weak competitive inhibitor. It is also prescribed to men for its diuretic effects, but rarely prescribed for a reason such as mine. Just wanted to know if you guys had any thoughts. Lmk if you have any questions.
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