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G, first off, sorry to hear about what you're dealing with, hope the T straightens it all out!
I'm actually super glad this thread came up, something I'm real interested in personally. I know I put on here a few times, a few years ago, that I got up to about 260 lbs at 6' for powerlifting purposes. Worked great for what I did it for. However, I had not gone to the doctor for a general physical for a good decade during that time, for my own stupid reason. No gear, just pure lifting, food, and zero cardio other than sex
At about the 3ish year mark of my "dirty bulk" that lasted about 5-6 years, the ol pal downstairs became very inconsistent you could say. Sometimes I felt 18, other times half chub and nothing more, sometimes 3/4, other times it would get up and down within seconds. At the time, I was pounding mass amounts of pre-workout and coffee every day. Developed IBS as well, I still deal with that one.
Went to the doc for a physical two years ago, he basically told me my shit diet was clogging my blood vessels up, making my heart work way too damn hard for very basic function, the amounts of caffeine was having me always on edge so my body could never relax, and my body was pumping enough blood for simple function, instead of good blood flow for sex consistently. Was also on Creatine at the time. Doc told me to majorly clean up my diet, get all the supplements out of me, and to take some good time and clean my system out, and do some damn cardio and I'd be fine down the road. He offered getting my Test checked and I declined, but I've always been interested to check.
My physical the following year, I dropped the weight and got to about 205 I think at the time. Everything looked. I did a slight heart thing that I had to go a stress test for that ended up being a false alarm, but I talked to the specialized nurse there about my ED issue and she explained that my body, at the time, was basically doing just enough blood flow wise to handle what I was doing in the gym, but couldn't pick it up enough in the bedroom to supply that consistently. Add in the simple not being able to relax enough when it was go time, and that's the results that happen.
I'll go back for another physical in a few months, my wife wants me to go see a different doc this time due to the stress test that was never needed, but everything I've experienced is gone. I sit about 200 lbs now, in relatively good shape for a washed up athlete that still tries to powerlift. Cardio most days. Has worked as advertised.
I would absolutely be open to the idea of TRT in the future if the situation calls for it. Not something I would just start though unless doc prescribed.
Note: I went about a year lifting without pre-workout. TOUGH. Hopped back on it with normal coffee at work about a month ago.....it was definitely the diet and lack of cardio that gave me the majority of my issues. Still trying to figure out the IBS but I'm a decade into that now.
I'm actually super glad this thread came up, something I'm real interested in personally. I know I put on here a few times, a few years ago, that I got up to about 260 lbs at 6' for powerlifting purposes. Worked great for what I did it for. However, I had not gone to the doctor for a general physical for a good decade during that time, for my own stupid reason. No gear, just pure lifting, food, and zero cardio other than sex
At about the 3ish year mark of my "dirty bulk" that lasted about 5-6 years, the ol pal downstairs became very inconsistent you could say. Sometimes I felt 18, other times half chub and nothing more, sometimes 3/4, other times it would get up and down within seconds. At the time, I was pounding mass amounts of pre-workout and coffee every day. Developed IBS as well, I still deal with that one.
Went to the doc for a physical two years ago, he basically told me my shit diet was clogging my blood vessels up, making my heart work way too damn hard for very basic function, the amounts of caffeine was having me always on edge so my body could never relax, and my body was pumping enough blood for simple function, instead of good blood flow for sex consistently. Was also on Creatine at the time. Doc told me to majorly clean up my diet, get all the supplements out of me, and to take some good time and clean my system out, and do some damn cardio and I'd be fine down the road. He offered getting my Test checked and I declined, but I've always been interested to check.
My physical the following year, I dropped the weight and got to about 205 I think at the time. Everything looked. I did a slight heart thing that I had to go a stress test for that ended up being a false alarm, but I talked to the specialized nurse there about my ED issue and she explained that my body, at the time, was basically doing just enough blood flow wise to handle what I was doing in the gym, but couldn't pick it up enough in the bedroom to supply that consistently. Add in the simple not being able to relax enough when it was go time, and that's the results that happen.
I'll go back for another physical in a few months, my wife wants me to go see a different doc this time due to the stress test that was never needed, but everything I've experienced is gone. I sit about 200 lbs now, in relatively good shape for a washed up athlete that still tries to powerlift. Cardio most days. Has worked as advertised.
I would absolutely be open to the idea of TRT in the future if the situation calls for it. Not something I would just start though unless doc prescribed.
Note: I went about a year lifting without pre-workout. TOUGH. Hopped back on it with normal coffee at work about a month ago.....it was definitely the diet and lack of cardio that gave me the majority of my issues. Still trying to figure out the IBS but I'm a decade into that now.
