5 month Androcur trial - few questions before I start!

[Zebedeee (imported)]

I’m about nine weeks in and I can still get an erection if I choose, but given how low my libido is it’s something that I very seldom want to happen.

I no longer ever get unwanted erections.

[andrew-n (imported)]

I’

m about nine weeks in and I can still get an erection if I choose, but given how low my libido is it’s something that I very seldom want to happen.

I no longer ever get unwanted erections.

Hmm. I wonder if I ought to supplement it with Depo Provera?

[Zebedeee (imported)]

Are you able to get your testosterone level checked? You may already be at castrate level, in which case there would be no point in taking more anti androgens. Also I’m not sure that it would be the best idea to mix them.

But what about taking Tamoxifen or Raloxifene with your Androcur, which knock out any oestrogen in your body (or block it - I’m not entirely sure how they work!), so when taken with an anti androgen like Androcur you should achieve a pretty much sexless state.

I take Tamoxifen with my Androcur and although I do still have the ability to get an erection, there really is very little desire to do so. Perhaps over time I’ll lose the ability altogether, but as everyone’s different it’s impossible to say for sure.

[andrew-n (imported)]

Are you able to get your testosterone level checked? You may already be at castrate level, in which case there would be no point in taking more anti androgens. Also I’m not sure that it would be the best idea to mix them.

But what about taking Tamoxifen or Raloxifene with your Androcur, which knock out any oestrogen in your body (or block it - I’m not entirely sure how they work!), so when taken with an anti androgen like Androcur you should achieve a pretty much sexless state.

I take Tamoxifen with my Androcur and although I do still have the ability to get an erection, there really is very little desire to do so. Perhaps over time I’ll lose the ability altogether, but as everyone

’s different it’s impossible to say for sure.

I've actually just started on Tamoxifen, yesterday. 20mg a day. How long do you think it will take to make a difference?

[sparkey49 (imported)]

Even being castrate level doesn’t mean no erection at all. Two and a half years post castration and no T I could still get erect but not as hard as before.

[Zebedeee (imported)]

I started taking Tamoxifen at the same time as Androcur, so it’s very hard to say how much effect each drug was having individually. But overall I could tell my libido was dropping pretty quickly after about a week.

I’ve only ever taken 50mg Androcur & 20mg Tamoxifen, and it seems to have done the job. My testosterone level at the beginning of March was 35 ng/ml, which as far as I’m aware is castrate level, but as sparky49 says erections still aren’t impossible.

[Zebedeee (imported)]

Hmm… That interesting, as my libido did tank pretty fast.

Taken together the two drugs do seem to make a very effective combination.