I am just nearing my 3rd week of being on Tostran gel and still suffering from strong,
unpleasant side effects. I've read on here that most people have been starting on 2 or 3 full pumps a week but I can't even manage that
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On the first day I took a full pump and literally when it kicked in for the rest of the day I felt like my heart was pumping out of my chest, really wired as though I'd had about 20 Pro Plus and very agitated and weird. I had one more full pump 2 days later with the same horrible effect (including shouting down the phone at my poor mum a few days in) so have since taken not even a third of a pump, just a small petit poi's size, twice a week. That's once every 3 and 4 days.
Even on a tiny amount, I'm still feeling not right, checked my resting heart rate and it's gone up from 55bpm to 61bpm, sleeping only 4 or 5 hours a day and just feel up and down in-between taking doses whilst intermittently feeling more alert, better, then wired then agitated, a bit down again, over sensitive/ overthinking etc. and feeling my heart pumping faster when in bed.
Why am I having such extreme symptoms on tiny amounts, will it go away ever or is this a bad sign as in should I stop? My testosterone levels were only 0.08 so practically zero, SHBG 149 so don't understand why I'm having such an extreme reaction. I have been taking estrogel for 2 and half years and upped my dose from 2 pumps to 2 and a half pumps a day at the same time as starting the tostran gel because my estradiol levels were only 144.
Mind you, I felt much better before starting the tostran... it was only low libido and less strength and ability to exercise that prompted me to ask for it but now I feel like I've turned into some kind of steroid addicted muscle(less) woman on a miniature dose of tostran who can't get a decent night's sleep with a roller coaster personality. Please tell me I'm not the only one!
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