Hehe, you sound like almost every doctor I’ve had… despite having at least one objective metric to show that something was wrong immediately after contracting E

Hehe, you sound like almost every doctor I’ve had… despite having at least one objective metric to show that something was wrong immediately after contracting EBV: Testosterone and Estradiol dropped by (and remained at) about 65%. Took three years of joint pain (common low estrogen side effect, what a surprise), muscle soreness/weakness, and the death of a formerly lively sex drive (2 months into a fantastic relationship — maybe I was depressed by having it too good?), etc — before I said “screw it, I’ll go to a TRT clinic”. I’m still a far cry from my former self, but everyone around me has seen the positive difference that unfucking (at least part of) my hormones has made. But hey, maybe that’s all psychosomatic, including the swollen lymph nodes that for a year were visibly protruding out.