Hi Hun Ive read your post and he whole thread, andocur is powerful hence you doin so well on it pre grs. However, Androcur is a glucocorticoid, long term use of glucocorticoids and other medsc called corticosteroids, can cause 2 adverse side effects to happen. 1. They can cause adrenal gland suppression, which is not good but it's likely to either be mild and recovery easy if you were on a low dose (50 mg or less) 2. Once the adrenals kickstart again, they can be in an overactive state because of them trying to overcompensate for their longterm suppression, which can cause for androgenic hormones to be produced in them. Not necessarily T. Have your dr or endo or whatever do a free androgen index test. It might be more telling if you could be suffering of this problem, however, your T being low is a good sign and your adrenals should eventually, sooner rather than later get back to a normal state.
The issue is and this is an important question to ask, did you stop your Androcur cold turkey before grs? Because if so then the situation above could be more likely. What dose were you on? The way adrenal reactions re normally avoided is by tapering the dose, by 50mg if you were on 100mg or more daily or by 25mg if you were on 50mg daily. Your endo should have explained this but many don't due to the fact that they don't consider it a full corticosteroid such as prednisone. But it being a glucocorticoid has similar effects. So in the ideal world you should have tapered down over weeks before your grs until you fully stopped and you could have been given a GNRH agonist a month before your surgery to keep your testosterone suppressed .
The best thing to do now is ask to be seen by your endo and ask some of these questions to them, be patient though, there should be an eventual balancing regardless. And as a reminder even if there is some free androgens in your system, they would not be in the male range but obviously they can still wreck havoc and can be distressing. Your endo could try giving you a reduced amount of Androcur so that the tapering effect can be recreated.
If what I mentioned above isn't happening then your endo should do a full hormone screening of your cortisol, glucose, thyroid, prolactin. To make sure these aren't symptoms of an underlying condition. But like i said. It sounds like your adrenals are overactive or even erratic (up & down)
