14-12-2024, 10:22 AM
Forgive the long post, but I just needed to get the thoughts out of my brain.
I bought a bottle of Swansons BO, after I took 2 weeks off of PM and my topicals. I started having concerns about how it was making me feel physically (horrible insomnia mostly and was impacting my work day productivity).
I have started slow, 500mg per day for most of a work week. No side effects at the low dose so I bumped it up.
I've been for 10 days 750mg per day, started seeing a little results, but not as intensely as I feel I was seeing with PM (no overly puffy nips/aching breast tissue) just bumped up to 1500 per day (split AM and PM). My sleep pattern is a lot better (except for tonight, but I am working on a project for work and needed a little break).
It is definitely causing some breast changes some obvious Montgomery glands popping up on right nipple particularly. The growth is like filling out instead of mostly central growth like I saw with PM previously. They looks quite masculine when the nipples are erect, but are a nice shape when everything is relaxed.
I've started wearing a shapewear tank if I wear a single T-shirt since the nipples can be a little out there when everything is relaxed...fairly certain I am up an inch since October on my bust.
6 weeks in, I shaved once in early November, not sure I can do it again. Think I need to find another way to take care of the hair growth, it kind of ruins the look of the cleavage when wearing a nice bra.
I can't say for sure any other changes to my male parts as my libido has been pretty low since I was like 25, no obvious shrinkage, but it is hard to tell due to a very large varicocele on one side.
Just had my biometrics checked and my BP is better than it has been in years and I have monitored it pretty regularly since the summer, now perfectly normal. That is despite my high BMI, poor diet (ADHD hyperfixation and Taco Bell are a bad mix), and sedentary lifestyle up until I got a new job in April that has improved my activity level day to day immensely.
I have gained about 5lb since October starting on NBE despite some improvements, so I am starting a new exercise & diet regimen (no fast food for lunch) as I need to drop a good 30lb (more like 60 would be better), but I am not sure I will lose much until I go into a proper calorie deficit. I am thinking the NBE might be a bit counterproductive since I think I have had low-T pretty much my entire adult life, but I had been sticking at a relatively static weight for almost 10 years since my 1st daughter was born and I gained sympathy weight during the pregnancy. One plus, the extra weight hides the boob growth pretty well.
I am going to give BO another month and see where we are, then maybe one more.
I am not taking anything else at the moment. The DHEA I was using was causing a skin reaction even when rotating the location daily. I also ran out of progesterone and it just seemed to be causing short term intense peaks of libido more than anything (may try using it again when I feel like using my ED meds to give me a little more intensity of feelings I haven't been having naturally).
I bought a bottle of Swansons BO, after I took 2 weeks off of PM and my topicals. I started having concerns about how it was making me feel physically (horrible insomnia mostly and was impacting my work day productivity).
I have started slow, 500mg per day for most of a work week. No side effects at the low dose so I bumped it up.
I've been for 10 days 750mg per day, started seeing a little results, but not as intensely as I feel I was seeing with PM (no overly puffy nips/aching breast tissue) just bumped up to 1500 per day (split AM and PM). My sleep pattern is a lot better (except for tonight, but I am working on a project for work and needed a little break).
It is definitely causing some breast changes some obvious Montgomery glands popping up on right nipple particularly. The growth is like filling out instead of mostly central growth like I saw with PM previously. They looks quite masculine when the nipples are erect, but are a nice shape when everything is relaxed.
I've started wearing a shapewear tank if I wear a single T-shirt since the nipples can be a little out there when everything is relaxed...fairly certain I am up an inch since October on my bust.
6 weeks in, I shaved once in early November, not sure I can do it again. Think I need to find another way to take care of the hair growth, it kind of ruins the look of the cleavage when wearing a nice bra.
I can't say for sure any other changes to my male parts as my libido has been pretty low since I was like 25, no obvious shrinkage, but it is hard to tell due to a very large varicocele on one side.
Just had my biometrics checked and my BP is better than it has been in years and I have monitored it pretty regularly since the summer, now perfectly normal. That is despite my high BMI, poor diet (ADHD hyperfixation and Taco Bell are a bad mix), and sedentary lifestyle up until I got a new job in April that has improved my activity level day to day immensely.
I have gained about 5lb since October starting on NBE despite some improvements, so I am starting a new exercise & diet regimen (no fast food for lunch) as I need to drop a good 30lb (more like 60 would be better), but I am not sure I will lose much until I go into a proper calorie deficit. I am thinking the NBE might be a bit counterproductive since I think I have had low-T pretty much my entire adult life, but I had been sticking at a relatively static weight for almost 10 years since my 1st daughter was born and I gained sympathy weight during the pregnancy. One plus, the extra weight hides the boob growth pretty well.
I am going to give BO another month and see where we are, then maybe one more.
I am not taking anything else at the moment. The DHEA I was using was causing a skin reaction even when rotating the location daily. I also ran out of progesterone and it just seemed to be causing short term intense peaks of libido more than anything (may try using it again when I feel like using my ED meds to give me a little more intensity of feelings I haven't been having naturally).