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Confused... but trying not to hurt feelings

ALxSR — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:14:44 +0000

To start I have only been with two partners so I have no idea what would cause this or if it's common, and because I don't want to hurt her feelings I've been holding back from blatantly asking. Anyway when me and my current girlfriend started dating she was extremely tight and remained that way for the first 4 months. It was to the point that it took a lot of lube and a good while to work up to actually being able to penetrate her. Now rolling into 6months she has become very loose, some times it's difficult for me to get enough sensation or friction to actually finish.. I asked her if she still plays with her toys when she's not with me, as an attempt to find a reason. The answer was no and she has actually thrown out the only 2 she had. I'm currently living with her so I can say with certainty they are gone... I'm the one to take the trash out. So I'm pretty confused at this point and like I said do not want to ask out of fear it could hurt her feelings. It makes me concerned because the last girl I had this exp with was sleeping with other guys with in 30mins to an Hour of coming over my place... which made for a noticeable difference.

Maybe a woman or someone with more exp than myself can chime in. I don't have a lot of male friends to ask so I've resorted to the awkward post on the forums : /

would any of u guys date a big muscular bber woman?

unclem — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:50:06 +0000

iam seperated now and iam dating a beautiful mrs o prospect, well thats her dream as mine. we get along great as we love the same thing, bbing. she has 19 " arms and has good sex. anybody else like muscular woman. come on guys lets get some fun out of this forum?

testosterone HRT for women

QueenofDamned — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:20:14 +0000

PERIMENOPAUSE UPDATE
Objectives

Describe changes in androgens in aging, menopause, and following oophorectomy.
Define patients who might be appropriate for testosterone therapy.
Discuss alternative medical therapy versus prescription medical therapy.
WOMEN AND LIBIDO-IS THERE A ROLE FOR TESTOSTERONE?
Testosterone is an important metabolic and sex hormone produced by the ovary throughout a woman's lifetime, with levels changing at different times of life and under certain medical conditions. The variable reduction in testosterone production during the perimenopause is sometimes associated with a syndrome of specific changes in sexual desire and sexual response.1 Estrogen deficiency also impairs sexual response, but its replacement will not improve and might exacerbate sexual symptoms from androgen loss.2

Decreasing testosterone may be one of many possible causes of decreasing sexual desire; however, disorders of desire are complex and require careful, non-judgmental history taking. Testosterone replacement/supplementation may be appropriate in a small percentage of women who complain of decreased desire.3 Many women experiencing the clinical symptoms of androgen deficiency and low free testosterone levels respond well to testosterone replacement therapy.

Androgen Production
There is very little androgen action in the female fetus-the placenta has absorbed all the mother's androgens and although fetal adrenal glands produce a high level of weak androgens, the female usually is not virilized in humans. Androgens remain relatively low until adrenarche, when dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) develops. During puberty, the adrenal gland makes higher levels of weak androgens-DHEAS is very high during puberty into the early twenties. The adrenal and ovarian androgen production from puberty to menopause is relatively high, although there is a decline of adrenal production after the early twenties while ovarian production continues until well after menopause. The predominant symptom of women with androgen deficiency is loss of sexual desire.4 This is not limited to women experiencing a surgical menopause but may also be a feature of women who have either undergone premature or natural menopause.

Blood Production Rates of Steroids
(Mg / day) Reproductive Age Postmenopausal Oopherectomized
Androstenedione 2-3 0.5-1.0 0.4-0.8
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) 6-8 1.5-4.0 1.5-4.0
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) 8-16 4-9 4-9
Testosterone 0.2-0.25 0.05-0.1 0.02-0.07
Estrogen 0.350 0.045 0.045

Menopause and Disorders of Desire
Sexuality and sexual function involve more than just physical ability; psychological factors are just as important. The aging process involves many normal physical changes, some of which naturally affect sexuality. There is a gradual slowing of response, but women do not ordinarily lose their capacity for orgasm.5,6 During menopause, women may experience a variety of conditions that cause changes in sexual function. These changes include diminished sexual responsiveness, dyspareunia (painful intercourse related to estrogen deficiency), decreased sexual activity, decreased desire, a dysfunctional male partner, or lack of a partner.7 When assessing disorders of desire, answers to the following questions will provide important clues:

What is the nature of the patient's current sexual activity?
Is there an identifiable event associated with loss of desire?
How much disparity is there between the patient's desire and her partner's?
It is the issues surrounding a woman's autoerotic behavior, her own sexual thoughts, dreams and fantasies, and masturbation, which define a woman's libido that need to be examined. Is the problem really lack of interest or is it anger, fear of rejection, or negative messages partners give to one another? Is the lack of desire selective? Is the underlying effort to remain sexually aloof a way to punish or control the partner? Have there been attempts to solve the problem?

It is important to determine if there is a surgical event connected to loss of desire. Women who can clearly define their sexual drive through issues of fantasy and desire, and who can say there was a specific drop associated with a specific medical event, are very likely to respond to androgen therapy.8

There are a number of medical causes of decreased libido. These include acute and chronic illness, fatigue, malnutrition, alcohol, drugs, stroke, pituitary disease, renal disease, depression, and testosterone and estrogen deficiency. Traumatic deliveries can also result in chronic dyspareunia and incontinence, both affecting sexual relations and satisfaction.

Possible Medical Causes of
Decreased Libido
Illnesses Virtually any illness (genital or general; physical, emotional, or both): liver, renal, cardiac or hormonal disease, cystitis, anemia, hypertension, stroke, cancer, neurologic disease, colostomy, neostomy, bladder surgery, incontinence, herpes virus or HIV infection, gonorrhea, venereal warts.

Medications Antihypertensives, antineoplastic drugs, some antidepressants, (including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), major or minor tranquilizers (depending on dose), diuretics, antihistamines.

Treatments Major surgery (hysterectomy, mastectomy, cardiac bypass, organ transplant), dialysis, radiotherapy, chemotherapy.

There are also interpersonal causes of disorders of desire. These include reduced sexual attractiveness of patient or partner, boring sexual routines, situational disturbances, and marital adjustment problems. Contrary to popular belief, marriages do not increase in emotional intimacy with time.9 It is not uncommon for a couple who were very sexually active in their twenties to lack emotional intimacy in their forties. The kind of emotional intimacy that leads to desire is often lacking in long-term married relationships.

In disorders of desire, 90 percent of it has to do with the relationship. However, 10 percent of it may be related to decreasing levels of testosterone. The biggest question to ask in evaluating disorder is whether the patient has had desire in the past, including autoerotic behavior and fantasies.

Androgen Therapy
Changes in the circulating levels of androgens play an important role in psychologic and sexual changes that occur after menopause. The effects of short-term estrogen therapy in improving psychologic symptoms, maintaining vaginal lubrication, decreasing vaginal atrophy, and increasing pelvic blood flow in postmenopausal women are well documented; however, some patients require more than estrogen alone to improve psychologic dysfunction, decreased sexual desire, or other sexual problems associated with menopause. Results from clinical studies show that hormone replacement therapy with estrogen plus androgens provides greater improvement in psychologic (e.g., lack of concentration, depression, and fatigue) and sexual (e.g., decreased libido and inability to have an orgasm) symptoms than does estrogen alone in naturally and surgically menopausal women.10

For menopausal women who have never had much sexual desire, or who experience no change in libido, testosterone would probably not be the right therapy. But for those women who have felt sexual desire and wonder where it went, testosterone may be helpful.

During menopause, low estrogen levels lead to vulvar and vaginal atrophy,11 which can cause discomfort. This can have a dampening effect on libido, although lubricants can help. Estrogen replacement therapy can increase vulvar sensation and decrease dyspareunia, but it does not do anything for desire.12

Non-androgenic progestins in oral contraceptives, with the addition of ethinyl estradiol, can drive free testosterone to very low levels. This will eliminate the mid-cycle surge of androgens and accompanying surge of autoerotic and sex-seeking behavior in humans related to ovulation.

There is no convincing evidence that adding physiologic doses of androgens consistently enhances libido in menstruating women. Naturally menopausal women over 50 still produce a fair amount of androgens, for at least five to 10 years. For 35- to 60-year-old women who have had oophorectomies, there may be an increase in libido with the addition of androgens.13 Evidence that this is the case comes from a study, comparing estrogen-only, estrogen-testosterone, and placebo therapy in women who have had oopherectomies.14 The levels of testosterone used in the study were, however, superphysiologic, sometimes four to five times the average in males.

Testosterone and estrogen combined may increase bone density more than estrogen alone.15 Recent studies have also shown estrogen-androgen therapy to contribute to the prevention of osteoporosis and reduce serum levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.16,17 Finally, there appears to be some connection between testosterone and an elevated sense of well being in some patients, although this is difficult to assess given the powerful placebo effect.18

For women who might be candidates, there are a number of androgen therapies available: combined oral conjugated estrogens, injectables, subcutaneous testosterone pellets, transdermal patches (in development), and creams and gels.

Androgens and Estrogens

Oral Dosages
Diethylstilbestol (DES) amd Methyltestosterone
0.25 mg DES/5 mg methyltestosterone
1x day for 21 days (7 days off)
Dosage may be decreased to 0.125 mg DES/2.5 mg methyltestosterone

Conjugated Estrogens and Methyltestosterone
1.25 mg conjugated estrogens/10 mg methyltestosterone
1x day for 21 days (7 days off)

Esterfied Estrogens and Methyltestosterone
0.625 to 2.5 mg esterfied estrogens and 1.25 to 5 mg methyltestosterone
1x day for 21 days (7 days off)

Fluoxymesterone and Ethinyl Estradiol
1 to 2 mg fluoxymesterone and 0.02 to 0.04 mg ethinyl estradiol
2x day for 21 days (7 days off)

Injection Dosages
(not recommended or commonly used in the United States)
Testosterone Cypionate and Estradiol Cypionate
50 mg testosterone cypionate/2 mg estradiol cypionate
1x every 4 weeks

Testosterone Enanthate and Estradiol Valerate
90 mg testosterone enanthate/4 mg estradiol valerate
1x evey 4 weeks

Testosterone Enanthate Benzilic Acid Hydrazone, Estradiol Dienanthate, and Estradiol Benzoate
150 mg testosterone enenthate benzilic acid hydrazone/7.5 mg estradiol dienanthate/
1 mg estradiol benzoate
1x every 4 to 8 weeks or less

Oral preparations are difficult to evaluate because their androgen delivery cannot be measured; only secondary effects can be measured. So it is hard to tell whether patients are receiving a lot or not enough testosterone. Transdermal preparations can vary in application effectiveness and dosing, but can achieve very high testosterone levels.

Androgen therapy does have side effects. These include hirsutism, increased facial oiliness, acne, deepening voice, hostility, weight gain, alopecia,19 elevated liver functions, lower HDL levels, and (rarely) epedicellular carcinoma.20 Finding the right balance that will help women with their libido without causing adverse side effects is very difficult. How much is too much or too little testosterone has yet to be determined.

Other potential indications for androgen therapy in women are currently being evaluated. These include use in women with premature ovarian failure, premenopausal androgen deficiency symptoms, postmenopausal and glucocorticosteroid-related bone loss, alleviation of wasting syndrome secondary to human immunodeficiency virus infection, and management of premenstrual syndrome.21

REFERENCES
1 Davis SR. Androgen replacement in women: a commentary. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1999 Jun;84(6):1886-91.

2 DeCherney AH. Hormone receptors and sexuality in the human female. J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000;9 Suppl 1:S9-13.

3 Sarrel PM. Effects of hormone replacement therapy on sexual psychophysiology and behavior in postmenopause. J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000;9 Suppl 1:S25-32.

4 Davis SR. The therapeutic use of androgens in women. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 1999 Apr-Jun;69(1-6):177-84.

5 Masters WH. Sex and aging - expectations and reality. Hospital Practice. August 15, 1986. 175-198.

6 Meston CM. Aging and sexuality. West J Med. 1997 Oct;167(4):285-90.

7 Kingsberg SA. Postmenopausal sexual functioning: a case study. Int J Fertil Womens Med. 1998 Mar-Apr;43(2):122-8

8 Myers CS, et al. Effect of estrogen, androgen, and progestin on sexual psychophysiology and behavior in post-menopausal women. J Endocrinol Metab 1990;70(4): 1124-1131.

9 Greer R. et al. Aspects of geriatric sexuality. Family Practice Recertification. Vol 13:No 6: 57-73.

10 Sarrel PM. Psychosexual effects of menopause: role of androgens. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Mar;180(3 Pt 2):319-14.

11 Cutson TM, Meuleman E. Managing menopause. Am Fam Physician. 2000 Mar 1;61(5):1391-400, 1405-6.

12 Naftolin F, et al. The cellular effects of estrogens on neuroendocrine tissues. J Steroids Biochem 1988;Vol 30:195-107.

13 Myers CS, et al. Effect of estrogen, androgen, and progestin on sexual psychophysiology and behavior in post-menopausal women. J Endocrinol Metab 1990;70(4): 1124-1131.

14 Sherwin BB, Gelfand MM. Differential symptom response to parenteral estrogen and/or androgen administration in the surgical menopause. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1995;151: 153-160.

15 Shoupe D. Androgens and bone: clinical implications for menopausal women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1999 Mar;80 (3 pt 2):329-333.

16 Bachmann GA. Androgen cotherapy in menopause: evolving benefits and challenges. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Mar;180(3 Pt 2):308-11. 17 Hoeger KM, Guzick DA. The use of androgens in menopause. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Dec;42(4):883-94.

18 Sherwin BB, Gelfand MM. Differential symptom response to parenteral estrogen and/or androgen administration in the surgical menopause. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1995;151: 153-160.

19 Redmond GP. Hormones and sexual function. Int J Fertil Womens Med. 1999 Jun-Aug;44(4):193-7.

20 Hoeger KM, Guzick DS. The use of androgens in menopause. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Dec;42(4):883-94.

21 Davis S. Androgen replacement in women: a commentary. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1999 Jun;84(6):1886-91.

PCT or not

cupcake — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:56:10 +0000

I'm ending my cycle of Primo. I have been tapering for weeks now and I need to know if I need PCT of any kind.

Some ppl tell me I don't need any b/c "I have no balls", others tell me I should.

Please help.

top female anti-aging md in the US

QueenofDamned — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:59:58 +0000

Top Female Anti-Aging MD in the US
Pamela Wartian Smith, MD, MPH

An ER Physician Transitions to Anti-Aging Medicine
By Sue Kovach

Profile

Thinking “outside the box” has always come easily for Pamela Wartian Smith, MD, MPH.

As an undergraduate at De-troit’s Wayne State University, she majored in English rather than pre-med because she “wanted to be a literate physician.” Such thinking helped Dr. Smith eventually transition from emergency room (ER) physician to anti-aging practitioner and a leading authority on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, an evolution that began 10 years ago.

An Inadvertent Transformation
At that time, while in her early forties, Dr. Smith suddenly developed acute insomnia, despite never having had trouble sleeping before. Her determined quest for relief led to a personal and professional awakening.

“I went to 11 physicians for help, and none could help me,” says Dr. Smith. “At the same time, I became interested in anti-aging medicine, which then was a relatively new medical specialty. I went to an anti-aging conference, where a saliva test revealed that I had no progesterone. Although I had early perimenopause due to a partial hysterectomy, I didn’t realize hormones held the key to my problem.”

While the insomnia mystery was solved, Dr. Smith’s glimpse into anti-aging medicine inspired her to seek more information, and led to revelations about her own health and career.

“I always thought I was a very healthy person,” she says. “I grew up eating natural foods. I cooked with organic ingredients. But then I learned that I really couldn’t get all the nutrients from the soil itself. I realized I had to start taking supplements, and needed to exercise, too.”

In a career-changing decision, Dr. Smith sought board accreditation from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. She did well on the written exam, then faced the oral exam, which required her to submit patient charts. As an ER physician, however, she did not have any patients. Her next move solidified her professional change of direction.

“I opened a small anti-aging practice designed to get patient charts for my exam, not to grow a business. Then I began reading

Life Extension magazine and attending more conferences, and I was hooked. By 2000, I’d left the ER, and there was no turning back.”

Dr. Smith is now the owner and director of the successful Center for Healthy Living and Longevity in Traverse City, MI, an anti-aging medical practice with four affiliated offices within the state. All are Body Logic MD centers, part of a group of physicians who practice anti-aging and functional medicine focusing on natural hormone replacement therapy.

“We’re all board certified in anti-aging medicine, and the patients get the same high-quality, anti-aging practice when they go to any Body Logic MD center,” says Dr. Smith.

Bucking the System
A member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and a board examiner since 1997, Dr. Smith is the author of two books: Vitamins: Hype or Hope and HRT: the Answers—a Concise Guide for Solving the Hormone Replacement Therapy Puzzle, both published by Healthy Living Books. She has become a much sought-after lecturer on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

“I knew I could never go back to the way I practiced medicine before,” says Dr. Smith. “I wasn’t dissatisfied with emergency medicine, but I finally realized I needed to help people be healthy instead of waiting until they were sick to intervene.”

Early in her career, Dr. Smith earned a Masters of Public Health degree because she wanted to understand health care policy. Over the years, she concluded that the health care system is broken and fails patients. In anti-aging medicine, she saw a chance to defy the system and make a difference, particularly with regard to bioidentical hormone replacement. The problem with today’s physicians, she says, is that working within the broken system prevents them from practicing functional medicine.

“Physicians are overbooked—the average physician spends eight minutes with a patient,” she explains. “You can’t practice functional medicine in eight minutes. Doctors are rewarded for getting more people through quicker, rather than for keeping patients healthy. We would have to restructure how health care is practiced in the US so physicians would spend at least 45 minutes in evaluation, with follow-up visits of at least 20 minutes.”

Physicians are also too busy to keep up with the latest information in the medical journals, says Dr. Smith, noting that although the journals now contain considerable information about bioidentical hormone replacement, nutrition, supplements, and functional medicine, many physicians who attend her lectures are hearing about these topics for the first time.

“In our practice, we pride ourselves on the fact that all our physicians read for two hours a day,” she says. “We know what was in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. We call what we do the ‘standard of care.’ It’s what’s in the medical literature right now.

“It’s a totally different idea to focus on keeping people well rather than focus on disease-based medicine. Orthodox physicians need to change how they think to do this, and that’s not always easy.”

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement
Thinking differently once again, Dr. Smith wrote HRT: The Answers for her patients, publishing the book in a soft cover edition so every woman could afford it. Information is presented in a simple, easy-to-read, bulleted format for patients eager to participate in their own health care.

“Patients are more informed than they used to be. They read the medical literature and read Life Extension magazine, which I think is exquisitely written and contains fantastic research. Patients are learning that quality of life is really what anti-aging medicine is all about.”

Dr. Smith’s typical patient is 40-60 years old, primarily female (70% female to 30% male), and most likely to be interested in wellness or hormone replacement therapy. After a general history and exam, Dr. Smith orders lab work, including saliva testing, to measure the three estrogens (estrone, estradiol, and estriol), progesterone, total and free testosterone, DHEA, cortisol, melatonin, pregnenolone, and insulin-like growth factor.

“If the patient’s primary care doctor hasn’t done basic kidney and liver function tests, we do those as well,” says Dr. Smith. “We also check thyroid levels, running the entire panel of tests, which most primary care physicians don’t do.”

From the test results and the patient’s symptoms, history, and exam, Dr. Smith develops a customized treatment program.

“Your hormone response is as unique as your fingerprints,” she explains. “One size does not fit all. Customized therapy is more effective.”

Dr. Smith makes general and customized supplement recommendations, emphasizing antioxidants as an antidote to today’s often unhealthy, stressful life-styles. She also encourages balance in life, believing that longevity comes from a combination of physical, emotional, and spiritual health. In her personal life, she tries to blend home, family, and work life, engaging in cooking, needlepoint, and church activities when not on the lecture circuit or engaged in her practice.

In her writing and practice, Dr. Smith’s goal is to calm fears about hormone replacement and to educate women about why natural therapy is the only way to go.

“Hormone replacement isn’t and shouldn’t be scary,” she says. “I explain that estrogen itself has 400 functions in the body, and if you live without it, you live without 400 crucial functions that affect quality of life. Studies show that women who use hormone replacement therapy live longer than those who don’t. Taking bioidentical hormones of the same chemical structure as the ones the body makes before menopause is the only way to replace hormones safely. Synthetic hormones will become a treatment of the past. No patient in our practice gets synthetic hormones. I wouldn’t write a prescription for something I wouldn’t take myself.”

Dr. Smith was recently named director of the first fellowship in Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine, affiliated with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Physicians. This position will allow her to make her mark on the education of physicians who choose to study anti-aging medicine and, perhaps, on a health care system badly in need of change.

It will be a challenge, even for one who thinks outside the box. But Dr. Pamela Wartian Smith would not have it any other way.

Pamela Wartian Smith, MD, MPH, may be contacted by email at rrclark@cfhll.com, or visit her website, www.cfhll.com.

How much EQ

Avon — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:38:58 +0000

For a female with a few cycles of test p, and var under her belt. 32yrs, 123lbs

Going to run it with 100mg test p a week.

Question for you bodybuilding women.

nosuca — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:05:02 +0000

My wife is 35 5’6” and weighs 150, approximately 22% bf. She has done 4 cycles over the last 4 years one of winy then deca@ 200mg a week for 10 (2 cycles) and then 300mg for 10 weeks. She has been off for over a year and is now interested in a cycle to put on some muscle but mostly drop the BODY FAT. What kind of recommendations do you have and do any of you have experience with EQ or Dbol?

BTW- she has tried the eca stack and adipex with no success, her body is resistant to losing the fat in those troubled areas. She really liked the deca.

Thanks,

Nosuca

Strech Marks

Raven97015 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:12:47 +0000

So I started losing the fat and increasing the muscle. Evidently I have started doing it to fast. I now have strech marks on my arms, thighs and hips. Do any of you have recommendations for reducing the appearance without laser surgery?

Not what I'd like to wake up to in the morning

T-Bar — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:56:35 +0000

I met this "girl" in France a few years back. Scared the hell out of me. She was so jacked up on juice that her face was indescribable. So jacked up that even the IFBB had to disqualify her from competing in the show we were at.

Building In Portland?

Raven97015 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:59:24 +0000

Is there anyone in the Portland (Oregon) area willing to help me out with setting up a 40 minute daily workout? I have to work on losing before I can work on building - I'm 20 over now and I want to stay the same 'weight' but lose all the fat. I have very little free time - hence the 40 minute daily lunch workout.
I'm vegetarian switching to a lower carb higher protein diet.
I just need a point in the right direction.
Thanks :)