lowTengineer
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I have been on TRT for a year now. I was diagnosed secondary hypogonadism. I started at 100mg e7d. Doc raised me to 150mg e7d. Then raised to 100mg e3.5d. Both of those times the increase was due to my complaint of the weekly roller coaster. The 2x weekly dose helped with the roller coaster feeling but what I still had in a constant feeling of below average “meh” all day everyday. Defy switched me to 60mg 3x weekly. Still pretty much feel the same.
I still don’t feel great after 9 weeks of this change. I think the ups and downs that I was experiencing have gone away. Now I just sometimes have a feeling of tiredness. Libido is pretty low. Recently my joints mostly knees/legs are sore. I hurt my back maybe 5 months ago so my deadlift/squatting has been very minimal and I do no running.
I try to spread the injections evenly so I do wednesday morning, friday evening, sun night. I hate the inconsistent schedule timing. I feel like I would like the consistency for my routine to do EOD. Maybe this would help reduce the peak e2 enough to get rid of the AI. I would also be willing to think about going back to e3.5d however I'm hesitant due to my past results.
I think my total t, free t, and e2 look great on paper. I've seen a bunch of iron and thyroid discussion on this site recently. Is it possible my low iron is still causing me grief? I've never donated blood.
I have included a list of labs below. One file is my history of labs. The other just shows the recent results if you don't want to see everything.
Do you have any ideas or suggestions I should be working on?
Current meds:
60mg test cyp SQ 3x weekly
300iu hcg SQ 3x weekly
0.125mg anastrozole 3x weekly
500mg metformin 2x daily
iron supplement and extra vit c
height: 5’ 11"
weight: 185lb
BF: ~25-28%
age: 34
I go to the gym 5 days a week. 3 days weightlifting, 2 days cardio. Pretty active on the weekend with kids.
I still don’t feel great after 9 weeks of this change. I think the ups and downs that I was experiencing have gone away. Now I just sometimes have a feeling of tiredness. Libido is pretty low. Recently my joints mostly knees/legs are sore. I hurt my back maybe 5 months ago so my deadlift/squatting has been very minimal and I do no running.
I try to spread the injections evenly so I do wednesday morning, friday evening, sun night. I hate the inconsistent schedule timing. I feel like I would like the consistency for my routine to do EOD. Maybe this would help reduce the peak e2 enough to get rid of the AI. I would also be willing to think about going back to e3.5d however I'm hesitant due to my past results.
I think my total t, free t, and e2 look great on paper. I've seen a bunch of iron and thyroid discussion on this site recently. Is it possible my low iron is still causing me grief? I've never donated blood.
I have included a list of labs below. One file is my history of labs. The other just shows the recent results if you don't want to see everything.
Do you have any ideas or suggestions I should be working on?
Current meds:
60mg test cyp SQ 3x weekly
300iu hcg SQ 3x weekly
0.125mg anastrozole 3x weekly
500mg metformin 2x daily
iron supplement and extra vit c
height: 5’ 11"
weight: 185lb
BF: ~25-28%
age: 34
I go to the gym 5 days a week. 3 days weightlifting, 2 days cardio. Pretty active on the weekend with kids.