Suboxone doesn't cause clinical low T in studies usually.
However, just talking to guys on suboxone, it's pretty clear it affects T to some degree. It's hard to pinpoint how much, as the signs of low libido and difficulty achieving erection can also be caused by the opiate action itself.
However, I believe that most people on subuxone maintainance would perhaps benefit of increasing T.
With methadone and harder opiates the picture is more clear however,
and even osteoporosis has been reported, a clear sign of clinical low levels of sex hormones.
I just WONDER since it's a synthetic opiode .or it mimics it to bind to receptors..
I wonder because they have me in that shit till I'm done with this court class..then I will ween off of it..no problems with erections or sex drive..as it's through the roof always. Then again maybe I'm just a freak. I'm going to ask a doctor
If that's the case I don't think you have an issue. But always good to measure.
It also depends on dose ofcourse.
Over here they usually prescribe very high doses of that stuff, while I think 24mg pr day is considered maximum, some people get even more than that.
But I did talk to an endocrinologist who said subs usually weren't that bad for the HPTA. Ill see if I can dig up some studies on this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubme...20testosterone
Here there was no difference between the treated group and the control,
both had about 5,0ng/ml T. (The methadone group scored very low)
But the dose was simply listed as 8-20mg, with 11mg being the average.
The study was also very small (17)
But among some other abstracts I saw it seemed my initial statement was wrong. Maybe it's not that supressive after all. (Or not at all in most)
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