May I have some advice on Arimidex dosing, please?

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I have been being treated for hypogonadism by a urologist for the past few

months. He started me out on Androgel, but after a talk with him about

injections he is letting me self-inject 100mg weekly.

This scenario has taken place over several months, but to make it short here are

the relevant facts:

I am 56 yrs old, diabetic, well-controlled. Hypertensive. . .decently

controlled. Moderate to severe ED for a number of years.

I started off with a T level of 343.

Androgel alone got that up to 700.

Estradiol level at the time of my penultimate test was 63.

I wanted to talk to him about arimidex at the time but he wanted to wait until

out next appt., 8 weeks later. Well, I had that appt. yesterday. He agreed to

let me use arimidex (along with numerous cautions of course.) He wanted me to

take .5 mg daily. I told him that .25 every other day or every 2-3 days seemed

to be what was suggested by men experienced with the protocol. He ended up

prescribing for .25 daily.

Okay, today I call for quick test results from his nurse (I know he will call me

next week, but I wanted to talk to her and get the base numbers). Testosterone

is at 977. . .pretty good I guess. Then she gave me the estradiol number. .

..130! I was furious because if I had started on arimidex before now this would

likely have been better addressed. Instead I have waited for 8 weeks while the

number crept up.

Anyway, at this point what would you guys think I should do to get that number

down? .5 mg every other day? Or stick with .25 every other day? I will be

logging and looking for the sweet spot, but I have no idea how long this should

take to come down when it's this high.

Help? And thanks!