Quote Originally Posted by Relogic View Post
honestly i was unjustifiably scared of gyno, which is the only reason i did an ai without checking my blood 6 weeks or so in to trt...looking back, while not on trt my estrogen is always really low which makes sense since my test is low...but on trt with ai my estrogen levels weren't even registering which is worse than being low on test to begin with
I think way too many guys are overly paranoid of estrogen. Really, it is a necessary hormone for guys. I believe most of this paranoia comes from AAS abuse and guys stacking hormones on top of each other without putting thought into how the side-effects might interact. Also, in comparison to TRT, bodybuilders take ridiculously high levels of T, which is going to send their E2 up. However, the goal of TRT is to maintain T within normal physiologic levels, so why would one expect E2 to go out of range if T does not?

Regardless, if you are doing "normal" TRT with a well structured protocol, you should never take an AI unless you have labs to indicate you need one. Low E2 is just as bad as high E2 for sexual side-effects and other "low-T" like effects.