“Women on base, you better be careful. Port calls, women in Asia, you better be careful. Because these guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out.”
“Women on base, you better be careful. Port calls, women in Asia, you better be careful. Because these guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out.”
When I was on methadone, it made my testosterone levels plummet - my already low sex drive (I feel like masturbating sometimes) went to 0 (I no longer feel like masturbating ever), and i got Bob’s bitch tits.
They gave me delatestryl injections. Testosterone, steroids. My arm muscles got really big, I could suddenly do 20 pullups without even feeling winded after, and Fuzzy Bunny noticed strange black hairs growing where there were no hairs before. And I felt like masturbating again.
That’s it. I didn’t become this rabid horn dog willing to go up to women and ask them out. I didn’t really get any extra confidence at all, just physical stamina. There was no change in my perceived “manliness”, and most of these types would have probably still called me a wuss while I was on the steroids.
That’s because you were clearly not making enough of these hormones on your own, so much so that you were already symptomatic. The testosterone (and presumably the steroids as well) you were given just raised you back up to normal levels.
Kegsbreath’s talking about offering it based on numbers alone, and it just doesn’t work like that. Numbers are only one part of the diagnostic considerations. If you take extra testosterone regardless of what the numbers say and you don’t actually need it to bring you to a place of normal functioning, you can damage your hormonal production permanently.
Okay, well then when I quit methadone, my testosterone levels did the opposite, and went off the scale of their chart. I don’t recall exactly what units they were measuring, but I think the max for their range was 35, and I was at 38.
Still no change in manliness.
I’m not the one who downvoted you, and I wouldn’t because you know your own body best. But that one single number really isn’t the measure you think it is, even when it is “off the chart” as in your case.
All you’re really telling me is that quitting methadone 👍 resulted in profound changes to your body chemistry, of which testosterone was only one.
Testosterone doesn’t work alone, but as one of a handful of different substances that act in concert to produce what you refer to as “manliness.” For all you know you were also zinc or B6 deficient, or fat, or you drifted into a diabetic state or were low on precursor hormones, or any number of other things. It’s not just testosterone, and definitely not testosterone as a lab value with no other considerations taken into account.
Which is exactly why Kegsbreath is a fool, and why one hormone out of many should NOT be replaced based on numbers alone.
I have known non-steroid using body builders who take testosterone uptake blockers. It basically forces it to remain in your blood longer than it should so that the level builds up. Some of them had some real anger issues while on it.
I’m wondering what the impact would be on men who receive the extra T without really needing it.
Go bald(er), grow more hair in places than you had before, have a short temper, gain muscle without trying too hard.
Impotence when you come off it, and infertility, possibly permanent.