Recent content by BenM

Nope. My E is under control without any AI.

Yeah I'm with rafapark. Diet is a horses for courses thing - whatever suits your body, tastes and lifestyle is what you should go with. There are a lot of diet zealots out there for low carb / high fat in particular who will claim it's superior to anything else for health and body composition...

Try it and see. I too have high SHBG and was going really well on 125mg every 7 days, am now on 125mg every 5 days and feel like it's even better for me.

I also think that it's in the interest of big pharma to sell their products. Nobody particularly enjoys receiving injections, especially if they can't/won't self administer. If you want to sell a medication, it's going to be be more attractive to people if you sell it as a...

125mg of test E every 7 days bumped my very high SHBG down a little, but it's still really high. Saw a new doc this week and he's prescribed Azol to try and reduce it. Will be interesting to see how that goes.

I don't think this necessarily applies to everyone, of course we are all different. I'm on a T only protocol as well and six months in, I don't feel as if my depression is coming back at this point, that's not to say it won't in future though.

I don't know about injecting it subQ but there's no reason it can't be split up into smaller doses. I tried 125mg every 7 days when enanthate first became unavailable here, but found (based on both bloodwork and the feels) that I needed higher than that to keep my levels where they were. But I...

I would argue that your libido (and whether you can perform on demand) is more important than whether you get morning wood or not anyway. Personally, like I said above my morning wood came back pretty quickly after starting TRT. What I didn't say was that I still really didn't have the urge to...

Creatine, ZMA, Vitamin D, melatonin, BCAAs, pre workouts, I just dropped Ashwghanda. Also not really weightlifting supplements but I take St Johns Wort for mood enhancement / depression (have been since pre-TRT days) and started low dose (5mg) cialis daily a few months ago for BPH (don't think...

I said once a week, but I'm actually injecting every 5 days. High SHBG. Seems to be the sweet spot for me based on how I feel.

Well I hadn't had morning wood for a year or two before starting TRT, but within a few weeks of starting it became pretty consistent - I wake up 2-3 times a night to pee and pretty much always have a tent in my pj pants. It's like I'm 20 again (although I didn't need to go so much back then...

What's interesting is after 6 months on TRT mine don't seem to have shrunk much if at all. Maybe they just weren't that big to begin with (I am secondary). If it was going to happen surely I'd have noticed by now? Seeing a new doc next week and was thinking of discussing HCG anyway (for the...

Generally no. Fruit is good for you and full of micronutrients and fibre. Like any food group though, just don't overeat it. Everything in moderation :) Obviously if you're doing low carb most fruits will be off the table. But that's not everyone.

Thanks for pointing that out. I assumed in my head that inflammatory markers were high. Like my CK for example is always way high even though I don't train for 48 hours before having blood taken (I really need to take a break from the gym.....) but it turns out this last test was the only time...

The lab here advised someone I know that 'the sensitive oestradiol assay is only worthwhile for levels less than 70pmol/L - otherwise the normal oestradiol assay is sensitive above these levels'. I tested it out myself, I've always had the non-sensitive test done because that's all the main lab...