Letro killed my libido...and I never got it back. I need help/advice.

[cb8893]

Ok, so here's my story.

In February of 2010, I was a 16 year old kid doing internet research on how to grow as tall as possible. I stumbled across some articles that claimed that by taking letrozole during a pubertal growth spurt, you could decrease estrogen enough to prolong your time growing and end up with a taller final adult height. I decided to buy liquid letro and give it a shot.

From February until the middle of May of 2010, I started to take the maximum dosage of letro everyday. I started to notice extreme changes in my body after just a few days. My growth spurt stopped completely, new hair started growing rapidly all over my body, my joints began to ache, I had trouble urinating, acne sprouted all over my face and back, I became agitated easily, my facial bones matured at a dramatic pace, and most of all, my raging sex drive was reduced to nothing. Despite all of these warning signs, I decided to continue taking the letro, day after day.

After a while, I decided the affects were taking too much of a toll on my body and I decided I had to stop. For the next few weeks, bloating and weight gain ensued. After I lost the fat, I started to notice everything going back to normal at a slow, steady pace. My joints began to feel better, it was easier to urinate and acne got better. What did not improve was my sex drive. I assumed it would take a little longer to get better so I decided to wait it out. By September, I was off at boarding school far away from home. For the entire school year, my sex drive/ability to get hard did not improve at all. At the end of the school year, I went to my doctor and told him everything. He sent me to an endocrinologist who took some tests and told me all my levels were fine. He said to wait it out and eventually it would get better.

Another entire school year went by and still nothing has changed. Now, here I am today at 19 years old, starting college in January, and I still have difficulty getting hard. I've been sent to 2 endocrinologists and a urologist and they have all told me that I'm fine and there is nothing they can do for me.

I'm sick and tired of hearing this bullshit and I'm on the verge of suicide because of all this. I have no idea what to do or who to go to for help.

I just wanted to come on this board to see if anyone else has had a similar experience and what they did to fix it.

I know this is a very long post but I would appreciate any help. Thankyou.

[bp2000]

Hey bud sorry to hear your troubles. But you can't blame anyone but yourself because you took those extreme doses of Letro. If you did ANY research before you went Thundercats HOOO! you would have found out that Letro is the strongest AI of them all. AI is for estrogen reduction. And it's true the body stops growth spurts when estrogen is present. But you should have used Armidex and low dosage and not everyday and you could have met your goals without any of the problem's.

You basically CRUSHED your estrogen and all your problems you had (achy joints, bloat, weight gain, etc.) was from low Estrogen. It will come back on it's own but you could possibly get estrogen rebound from Letro. This means once you stopped the Letro your estrogen could go back up higher then normal. When your estrogen is too high or too low it can cause sex drive problem's.

Do you have the blood test from your doctor? I want to know what your Estrogen was? If it is still out of range there is some things you can take to get it back in range. If you don't have the report you can go to privatemdlabs and get a blood test for about 40$ without a doctor's script. Your sex drive should have came back though I would think unless you got bad estrogen rebound and your estrogen is now too high.

[Ernst]

You may have permanently f-ed up your body doing that at such a young age. This doesn't mean your life is over or that there's no help for you.

It's important to realize as well that just because your hormone levels may fall within a "normal" range as your doc reads them does not mean this is YOUR normal. They may see nothing alarming on paper though you are still obviously feeling the consequences.

When you are talking sex drive is this related to low desire or just trouble with getting hard or both? Have you tried any remedies yourself already such as Cialis or OTC supps?

[Ernst]

Can you share your BW results with us here? This may help.

[MickeyKnox]

sorry to hear about this. it must be awful. but don't give up!

i would post your latest bloodwork here and some of the more knowledgeable trt/hrt members will evaluate it and give their opinion. im confident it will be well worth it, and they will assuredly provide you with some positive direction.

[cb8893]

1. My sex drive has been virtually non-existent for over 2 years now. I haven't had a full hard-on for over 2 years. The most I can get is half there.
2. I'll get a copy of my results tomorrow and post them here.
3. Both Endocrinologists told me that since my blood work was normal, they couldn't prescribe me anything.

4. Question: Is it possible that what I really took was a suicidal AI? I feel like that's the only possibility.

[bp2000]

No you don't know what a suidical AI is. Letro is not one. If you took a suicidal AI you might be ok because it doesn't produce estrogen rebound. Post up your bloodwork when you get to it.

[MickeyKnox]

forgot to ask, what were your Estradiol levels? can you please post the serum values here, along with the reference ranges? thanks.

[mojo999]

Its not the end of the world cb8893; there's a multitude of options and possibilities still open to you. Most importantly you're only 19! Recovery should not be an issue.