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...HCG. Are you still taking the HMG or FSH? You can only do so much with TRT and HCG, although that would typically work well to maintain fertility and stimulate the Leydig cells of the testicles, which do 20% of the work in making sperm. But you also need to stimulate the Sertoli cells...

Congratulations; that is great to hear! HCG and HMG restored my fertility after many years on testosterone, and I have a beautiful baby daughter. So I am always happy to hear from other men who have achieved a similar result while staying on test. God bless you and your wife, and especially...

As long as you had no pre-existing fertility problems when you started TRT, you should be fine regaining your fertility with HCG, and if necessary HMG or FSH. Many men have best results if they come off test, and use HCG and HMG/FSH to regain fertility. Other men like me stayed on test the...

...Yes, HMG is LH + FSH. However, there is not sufficient LH in HMG to achieve optimal levels of intra-testicular testosterone and optimal fertility, at least not without spending a small fortune, as HMG is usually an expensive product. Most preparations of HMG are 75/75iu or 150/150iu of LH...

For better or worse, that's definitely true. My fertility doctor is well-known and respected locally, and was recommended to us by our IVF clinic...and yet neither he nor the doctor at the IVF clinic knew a damn thing about helping men who are on testosterone regain fertility and conceive a...

Thanks, Dr Saya, I appreciate the comment and insight. You managed to say in two concise sentences what I was trying to express in several rambling paragraphs LOL.

...is willing to prescribe you FSH. If you decide to go that route, in most cases insurance won't pay for the FSH, as they don't pay for many fertility meds for men. If that is the case, I would recommend FSH from Empower Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Texas, rather than name brand...

...human beings, and get things right or wrong, and make mistakes just like the rest of us. So always keep in mind that you can go to another fertility doctor and get their opinion on your situation. However, if your husband was only on TRT for 7 months, perhaps he will recover well with...

LOL don't I know it. That's just one reason why I have a very low opinion of most fertility doctors, including my own. And I've been on test for 27 out of my 51 years, long before the days of modern-day test replacement, since 1992 when we used to have to order from mail-order pharmacies...

...testosterone injections the whole time. I stayed on 200-300mg of testosterone throughout the whole protocol, and successfully regained my fertility and got my wife pregnant. I know that the late great Dr John Crisler advocated the same thing, staying on T injections while adding in HCG and...

lt84, HMG (mixed FSH and LH) is a great product, and I used it myself in my fertility protocol, as my doctor at first refused to prescribe FSH. But your husband will need to use HCG (which is an LH analogue) along with FSH or HMG. Although there is both LH and FSH in HMG, there is not...

...would have been with a different protocol, say 500iu HCG and 150iu HMG every other day. T + HCG + HMG/FSH worked for me in restoring my fertility after 27 years on testosterone, and enabled me to go from azoospermia to getting my wife pregnant at the age of 51. It worked for me, and would...

HCG, HMG (mixed FSH and LH), and FSH worked for me, and restored my fertility after 27 years on testosterone and other anabolic steroids. My wife is currently pregnant, and our baby girl is due to be born on November 29. And I am 51 years old, and have been using test for more than half my...

...use of any 5-Alpha-Reductase inhibitors, even topical, until after you get your wife pregnant. The 5-Alpha-Reductase inhibitors all have fertility risks, not to mention risks with erectile dysfunction, and Finasteride in particular does reduce sperm counts in some men...

@Gman86 thanks, I really appreciate that, and I've learned so much from your posts as well. I had to do a tremendous amount of research on fertility back in 2017-18 so that my wife and I could have our baby. I made a lot of mistakes, but also got a lot of things right, and I learned a great...

...wife and I did our IVF procedure, my sperm count was up to 31 million per ml, with much improved motility. So I did regain some amount of fertility just using HCG, but the HMG did make a huge difference. A sperm cycle is about 2.5 months, so the HMG I was using in August paid off for me in...

...day, which is what I would recommend to others, and what worked best for me. I used different doses of HCG over the 11 months I was on the fertility program, from as little as 100iu every day, to as much as 3000iu EOD at the direction of my doctor, which was way too much and gave me very bad...

...if anything, positive, and only has negative side effects for men taking exogenous testosterone. I used Clomid at 50mg per day because my fertility doctor insisted on it, and he initially refused to prescribe HMG or FSH. But after seven months on Clomid and HCG (and Proviron), my sperm...

Thanks, I hope so. Too many doctors, including fertility and TRT doctors, are still stuck in the past and want guys to come off testosterone when fertility becomes a priority. But that leads to low libido, and the health issues which were why we all started testosterone therapy in the first...

Well, my fertility program evolved over the course of a year, trying to find doses that worked best for me personally, and always depending on what my doctor would agree to prescribe (initially he refused to prescribe HMG or FSH), and what I could find access to on the black market that he...

I've been on testosterone for over 27 years, and I was able to bring back my fertility over the course of a year, from zero sperm count (azoospermia) to 31 million/ml, using HCG and later HMG and FSH, without ever coming off of testosterone. My wife is currently 6 months pregnant and we are...

My own fertility doctor, a well-regarded "expert", bumped me up from 500iu HCG every other day to 3000iu every other day. When I complained that caused me gynecomastia, erectile dysfunction, and anxiety from high E2, he prescribed me 2.5mg letrozole per day, which crushed my libido into the...

...like it would shut down what low sperm count you already have. You will have to research your own condition and hopefully consult with a fertility doctor/urologist. I am honestly no expert; I only know what worked for me. But my case is different than yours. I honestly wish you the best...

The right dosage will depend on the individual; different people react to different drugs in different ways. You can check Table 1 in the study quoted above for some examples of approaches that have worked for different people. For me, although it changed throughout my protocol, it boiled down...

TRT and FSH by itself is NOT enough to maintain fertility. You need HCG to maintain high levels of intra-testicular testosterone. Use all three for maximum fertility, TRT + HCG + FSH. Quoted from the following study: Recovery of spermatogenesis following testosterone replacement therapy or...

If you are committed to using test, most experts will agree that Clomid doesn't work very well to maintain fertility levels for men on TRT. Use HCG to maintain fertility, and HCG in combination with HMG or preferentially FSH to increase sperm count. There are quite a few threads in this forum...

...can get HCG and FSH prescribed by their own doctors, but of course as many of us have found, many doctors won't prescribe HCG, HMG, FSH, or other fertility meds for men, and of course insurance will rarely pay for them. So unfortunately we are forced to find sources for these hormones on our...

...you had that experience with the andrologist. Believe me, I understand your frustration. It is very difficult to find an open-minded fertility specialist, or a doctor in general, who is willing to embrace ideas and approaches outside of the norm and off the beaten path. All you can do is...

...it's definitely worth the price. Those of us who have been on testosterone for a long time will often need FSH along with HCG to get back some reasonable degree of fertility. There is no doubt in my mind that my wife's pregnancy would not have happened without my use of HCG, HMG, and FSH.

...I had to buy Gonal-F (FSH) for my wife's IVF procedure in October, a 900iu pen cost me $714, and that was with a huge discount from the fertility pharmacy. If you look up the prices for Gonal-F 900iu pens using GoodRx or a similar site, you will see that the 900iu pens often cost $2000 or...

...me. I have been on testosterone for over 27 years now, and had a zero sperm count in November of 2017 when my wife and I embarked on our fertility journey. Over the course of 11 months, my sperm count went from zero to 35 million by the time my wife and I had IVF done in October, and my...