Has anyone ever gotten prescribed toremifene?

[xtitan1]

The rationale is that the Toremifene 'might' work if your HPTA is suppressed, but it's capable and healthy enough with restarting itself with a little assistance from a SERM. It's not common for the HPTA to just voluntarily shutdown with someone your age, unless you've cycled anabolic steroids, taken other medications that might affect it, or if you have a tumor or some other condition in the pituitary region. Since you've had an MRI, that rules the tumor stuff out.

HCG is just simply signalling the testicles with LH, which would normally be happening with the HPTA if it is functioning properly. However, HCG would do nothing to promote restarting the HPTA. If you are secondary, then your testicles should respond nicely to HCG, and they will react with producing endogenous testosterone. However, once you stop administering the HCG, the testicles stop getting LH, and they will go back into atrophy mode once again ...

This is why we really need to see the baseline labs with the LH/FSH, and anything else you can provide. Just post it up when you get a chance.

Wow great info vette, thank you. Just to make sure u noticed tho, I'm not the OP I was just wondering since it was being discussed here and I have a very similar situation (currently at the getting the MRI stage).

[Vettester]

Wow great info vette, thank you. Just to make sure u noticed tho, I'm not the OP I was just wondering since it was being discussed here and I have a very similar situation (currently at the getting the MRI stage).

LOL, I was a little asleep at the wheel there, xtitan. I just glanced at the question and started typing. Either way, hopefully the explanation will be helpful for OP and others too.