(07-15-2017, 01:29 PM)FirePlaces Wrote: Hi jstone,
You sound like you know your stuff. What's HPTA shutdown?
Fire
For men there HPTA (hypothalmus pituitary testicular axis) is the system that produces hormones such as leutinizing hormone, gonadotropin releasing hormone, follicle stimulating hormome, testosterone, and also produces sperm. HPTA shutdown means your body isn't producng these hormones or just some of them.
Al three of these systems send signals back and forth telling the body to produce these hormones. When you introduce exogenous (from outside the body) hormones these systems send a signal saying we have enough of said hormone, and they signal the body to stop producing them.
Hcg is a leutinizing hormone mimetic, leutinizing hormone is responsible for testosterone production. So when the body sees the exogenous leutinizing hormone and the extra testosterone it is creating it signals the body to stop producing testosterone.
Im running lat for work and this is a very simple explanation. I didnt have time to go over how leutinizing hormone signals the production of test but can go deeper later. Painkillers caused me to have OIAD (opioid induced androgen ddeficiency). I no longer produce testosterone like a normal man and must take exogenous testosterone the rest of my life. Thats the main reason im here.
Any of you out there who are men that have been using these meds for chronic pain, and you just dont feel like your old self. You probably have low testosterone. Which is easily fixed, and when it is you feel great.