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Aching everywhere anybody?

Started by rorythedinosaur, December 23, 2017, 03:11:38 PM

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rorythedinosaur

I'm 3 months and half on low dose IM T, i started very slow and now my endo upped a little my dose (still under the "usual" dose tho). I am aching nearly everywhere, mostly legs and joints. I got pain in my muscles (and i am not exercising), but not only. I feel like my nerves, my tendons, my ligaments and my "veins" ache, too. Could this be? I't like a deeper pain than just muscular one. Anybody experiencing this? I know it has been asked before about growing pains, i saw past threads, but i really don't think mine are growing pains at all; i don't exercise, i am 30, and it's not only joint-located.
I had my blood work done on the 2nd of november and T was still very low (as expected) and my blood cells were good.
I am drinking 3L a day, if that helps. And i eat well and healthy.  ??? ???
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Elis

I had this somewhat as well. Especially on my arms when applying the gel. Should go within a few months when your body has adjusted to the T
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Kylo

I haven't experienced this on a normal T dose but I had some epic aching when my E had been too low in general before HRT. I used to get joint pains and deep vein ache after a long time walking on low hormones. Maybe your dose is still too low? Best to check with your doc
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rorythedinosaur

Today the "vein pain" is still there and when it aches, it seems like a vein that was not (visibly) there shown up in the night. It s not warm just red, seems like a broken vein. Do I need to worry?
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Contravene

If I were you I would see my doctor just to be on the safe side.

A few times my injection site would get warm and swell. I went to my doctor because I was afraid it could have been an infection but it was actually caused by the T absorbing too slowly. It pooled up on my muscle. It was extremely painful and made it hard to walk especially when it was closer to my knee since I had placed my injection site too far forward. It took about a week to fully go away. Now before I do my injections I massage my leg to warm up my muscles before I prep the spot with alcohol and after I put the bandaid on I massage it again to help get the T absorbed. Every once in a while I get little red dots on my upper legs a day or two after I do my injection. I was told those are just tiny broken blood vessels and not to worry.

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When I first started T I would get really severe pains in my lower back, abdomen and the pain would travel down my legs. The pain was very much like the pms symptoms I had experienced before (mine were always very painful). Those pains were caused by how T was affecting those organs and essentially shutting them down. After the first maybe 5 months though the pain stopped and the only time I ever had it again was when I was off T for a month this spring and those organs temporarily reactivated thanks to my pharmacy screwing up my prescription.

It sounds like a lot of the pain you're experiencing could be the latter but having a red swollen vein show up is worrying. I don't want to worry you but I think you should get to a doctor asap because complications like an embolism or septic embolism are rare but are no joke.
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Magnus

Due to the anabolic actions, this is typical (with or without your exercising to further capitalize on that). It is not just your muscles increasing in mass, but nearly everything else as well... such as ligaments and tendons (though even your bone mass will also be affected). They will thicken, they will therefore be a bit short until they stretch back out (this will be slower than their rate of change, initially). The informed consent I signed cautioned against strenuous activities for up to two years because of this factor (there are increased risks of ligament and tendon injury). While that is going on, you MAY succumb to aches and pains. I certainly did, but not everybody does.

The worst of it as I recall were my back and neck (my larynx got really large very fast... pushed everything out to the side and a bit behind it; I didn't have full range of my head for a while. I'd pull things in there awfully if I moved the wrong way too fast for months). Everything in my extremities felt too short for more than six months. And I have to say, great as it otherwise was, I wasn't too thrilled about losing my shoes due to going up a size within 3 months either (I'm damned poor, feet already so wide the only ones I can wear off the shelf apparently are $60 DC's, so that really, really sucked) and yes I had some aching there as well. But nothing legitimately agonizing.

Did not, however, experience the "vein pain", I haven't the first inkling what that might be about. Albeit, I'd have to think they also would need to stretch a bit (capillaries especially).

That said, listen to your instincts. If you feel something really is not right, go to your doc.


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