[Eloise]

Lotus,

It’s great to hear from you.  You look marvelous, as always

I’m contemplating starting your topical routine but my one hesitation is that dhea could also raise T if it’s not adequately suppressed.  And I’m not sure if mine is.  I don’t want to be accidentally undermining my anti-androgens, if that’s the case.  

I’ve had good results with boosting my estrogen pathways by using Forskolin and L-Argentine with B6.  MSM screwed with my JAK pathway and led to some serious eczema-like symptoms.  

Hope to hear from you soon!  

Hi E, thank you   I think i can provide some numbers via lab results from Dr. Powers that show how using progesterone/DHEA fared for me... it'll also show my DHT using topical testosterone to prevent penis atrophy. Originally, I was planning on bottom surgery and read Dr. Powers made a T cream to help restore the atrophy before having bottom surgery, in fact it helped many (including in adult film industry people). The one thing i didn't expect was leukemia, and being that my immune system is squat I'm susceptible to any and all infections. So, no surgery for me. Be advised to all that using T creams or gels you may grow hair on the underside of your penis. So, I checked and I did grow hair there.. albeit a very small area. I mention this nugget because its not talked about so much. The other reason for use of T-cream before bottom surgery is to get you're vagina the depth you prefer... 6 inches is about the deepest and that's stretching it... pun included. 

I'll try to post the lab results asap. 

Lotus, thank you to taking the time to respond.   

But before you started your topical routine, I assume you had already tanked your T-levels??  So if you did, a small bump in DHT would still keep you within the accepted female range?  But I’m sure I’m not in that range yet so adding it would seem sort of counterproductive?  Yes/No?  Plus, I have to get labs done to see where I’m at.  

And atrophy.  It’s a catch-22 for me.  On one hand, atrophy is a sign the anti-androgens are working. (Plus, smaller is easy to tuck away.). But on the other hand, I still use it and need a functional one.  Grrrrrr  If I had only been born differently….