I know the topic of sleep while on cycle has been talked about ad nauseam, but I'm struggling and want to give as much context as possible to help work towards resolution. About 1 month ago, I was taking 130mg/week of test C. Bloodwork below. I then jumped my dosing up to 240mg/week and am about a month in since making that change.
E2 was in the 50s at the 130mg/week dosing but the only high E2 symptoms that I have are early waking (bed by 11pm, waking at 4am or earlier) or intermittently waking up in middle of night. No spicy nips or any of the other more common symptoms.
My sleep quality has been terrible for a couple weeks now. This past Wednesday, I took 0.25mg of anastrozole to see if that would help in case it was E2 related but no impact that I've noticed.
I'm running out of options to try to get my sleep back on track. The way I see it, I can:
1) Ride it out for another couple weeks to see if my body is just adjusting and needs to get back to homeostasis and my sleep quality improves by itself
2) Reduce my test dosage
3) Increase AI use
Any advice or guidance? Poor quality sleep as a tradeoff for high-test benefits is not feeling great so far.
Thanks in advance.
E2 was in the 50s at the 130mg/week dosing but the only high E2 symptoms that I have are early waking (bed by 11pm, waking at 4am or earlier) or intermittently waking up in middle of night. No spicy nips or any of the other more common symptoms.
My sleep quality has been terrible for a couple weeks now. This past Wednesday, I took 0.25mg of anastrozole to see if that would help in case it was E2 related but no impact that I've noticed.
I'm running out of options to try to get my sleep back on track. The way I see it, I can:
1) Ride it out for another couple weeks to see if my body is just adjusting and needs to get back to homeostasis and my sleep quality improves by itself
2) Reduce my test dosage
3) Increase AI use
Any advice or guidance? Poor quality sleep as a tradeoff for high-test benefits is not feeling great so far.
Thanks in advance.
