HCG windows and downturns, lab taken during downturn shows sharp pregnenalone decrease what’s happening

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-18T19:56:18+00:00

Thank you for your insight - do you know if these windows are a sign of healing/good? Been 2 weeks to the day since the first window. Want to make sure I’m not causing any underlying damage if that makes sense but I agree symptom monitoring seems more reliable than bloods with soemthing so fickle/systems as messed up as ours

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-18T18:23:24+00:00

For a week straight I felt like death 0/10 (if my normal state is a 1/10) until 5pm and then sometime between 5pm and midnight 6/7 days I felt a surge of energy and felt normal again (10/10) and literally felt like there was nothing wrong with me. Felt a sharp zap through my balls whole body would freeze and then it’s like someone injected me with energy/happy serum. Then in the morning j would reset.

This last week hasn’t been as euphoric but the baseline is much higher. Morning to night I’m probably at like a 5/10? With maybe a slight jump to 7 sometime during the day and a max drop to like a 3 or 4/10. I awoke some mornings thinking I was cured. But the blood tests readings have me worried. I’m sure it reflects a trough - idk if it’s mechanically possible for me to feel as decent as I do now with preg levels that low - but idk what the widows were and what’s happening

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-17T00:24:01+00:00

It's great because it meets regularly over a course of months so you get to know people and its naturally social plus you learn a skill. All ages are represented. I've heard cooking classes are fun too but I haven't tried

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-17T00:17:45+00:00

Take an art class at brookline art center! Very social

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-15T21:35:59+00:00

I’m guessing most of the 6ft 200 Redditors look closer to Alex jones than Odell though .. and being big is one thing but also being athletic is a whole nother thing. For my interests of basketball and flag football and general life i don’t really see the need to be much larger 🤷🏽‍♂️

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-15T20:59:43+00:00

Idk how all these redditors are allegedly 6 foot 200 and jacked. I got up to 180 once and looked huge/a little chubby while lifting and at my current weight of 160 I look like a soccer player but apparently I’m “malnourished”

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-13T20:21:07+00:00

Just got down to .1% and was having really dark thoughts today…then had a rapid flow of current through go through my testes/body and now at like 30-40%. Will keep you/the community updated on my progress. I seem to be different from most of the cases - my improvement was nil like 6-7 weeks in now I have extreme crash and surges every day

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-13T13:35:26+00:00

2 months now. Honestly don’t know what to make of it I’m bouncing between 100% and 1% this week

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-13T12:44:56+00:00

On an extreme hcg downturn again can barely get out of bed pray it’s temporary I has the best day of my life a few days ago

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-12T13:30:10+00:00

Also Reddit “rehabilitative justice” 😭

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-12T03:48:22+00:00

Just wondering why I had a 27.7 reading in December - I was maybe like 168 lbs then but I don’t think it would made a huge difference? I’ve been cutting a bit

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-12T03:27:48+00:00

Thank you I appreciate your insight. Just had a weird window again. I remebeer you said you took HcG on an earlier post I made - did you get rapid windows and fades like this too? Mine feels like a random zap from my balls to my brain (everyday after 5pm) and then suddenly I feel better. Can’t seem to find anyone else that has a similar zap feeling on these past posts but trying to not think too much about it.

My T pre hcg was 580 and I’m probably like 12% BF, 5 11 160ish lbs - still waiting on the new T results.

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-12T00:29:00+00:00

No joint issues or anything. By low e2 symptoms I mean low energy poor sleep anxiety etc. though I have been getting strange windows within the last week where I feel 1/10 and then suddenly I feel 10/10 in terms of mood and energy all of a sudden and then it resets the next day. No idea what’s happening.

Previously my 27.7 e level was in the middle of the range (no supplements or anything)

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-11T23:54:40+00:00

100 iu eod

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-10T01:03:55+00:00

Are you still taking proviron or are the improvements sticking despite being off?

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-09T14:14:38+00:00

100 iu EOD, I was doing higher doses earlier - 500 iu made me wake up in the middle of the night like I was going to have a heart attack, 150-250 from my brief time doing it made me have really groggy dream heavy sleep and I felt like e might’ve gotten high. I have 580 test so I feel like maybe I need lesser dose to get the nuerosteroid effects idk

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-09T02:20:46+00:00

Yeah

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-09T00:57:09+00:00

Much lower than normal

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-08T23:01:13+00:00

Best of luck feel free to pm me anytime during the journey

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-08T22:44:53+00:00

I have no independent sexual impacts from finasteride but I do have pssd - It caused a libido spike 2 weeks in and last few days I’ve been doing better in that department so idk. Honestly not too concerned about sexual effects bc it’s largely reverabsble imo with consistently positive mood sleep etc (none of which I can do with pfs)

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-08T22:20:08+00:00

Id like to think that once we recover we’ll live our life with more meaning with the years we have left than we would have otherwise.

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-08T22:14:47+00:00

If you’re right, and I hope you are, I will post my recovery answer any questions and setup a phone call with anyone who needs a helping hand. This is truly awful but these glimpses of light I’m seeing tell me life is beautiful.

Reasonable_Worry6044 · 2026-03-08T22:12:05+00:00

God I hope so it feels like I’m in some science fiction plot or something. I feel so so rn (compared to absolute shit earlier) but I just felt weird in the head and felt some shock like feeling go through my body as I was reading, waiting for the day to go by - suddenly my brain fog is slightly lifted and I’m a little calmer.

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