Recent content by falconberg

That change is insignificant and could have happened without taking DHEA.

Perfect. Thank you, Nelson.

I am going back over a few years of lab results and trying to standardize measurements so that I can compare one lab result to another. Does anyone know of a good online calculator for doing all of the conversions? I can find specific ones here and there, but I was hoping to find a one-stop...

I think he's talking about yet another thing to "optimize" to fit a somewhat arbitrary and medically debated range. Wanting to strike a balance between the increased DHT levels from cream and less pronounced DHT increases from injections. That is what scares me about getting on cream, because...

Maybe I'm missing something, but you gave yourself a double dose (a full day's worth of your current protocol, which is normally split into two doses), then got tested two hours later, and are now using that as a cautionary tale for high DHT? That would be like someone on 200 mg of testosterone...

I'd love to hear from any of you that have low SHBG (say < 18 nmol/L) and had bad results injecting testosterone, then switched to scrotal cream (either alone or in conjunction with injections). What was your experience? I am primarily asking about libido/ED/sexual function, but any other areas...

What you are describing is very, very common in the forums and Facebook groups that I am a part of. If you look around a bit, you can find literally hundreds of stories or posts from people that started TRT, went through a honeymoon phase until their HTPA sensed the exogenous testosterone and...

Cataceous, so you are saying that free testosterone is fixed, not in the f(SHBG, total_T) equation, but another equation that deals with a metabolic constant, which I assume simply represents the way that a person's body processes free testosterone. You are also assuming that the absorption...

I'm still not following. Are you saying that it is the *free* testosterone that is fixed? In other words, that total T is the fluctuating number based on the SHBG and free testosterone in the system? If so, I am not saying that you are wrong, but I am not sure how to get there logically since...

Can anyone explain the last two sentences to me? If I misunderstood about low SHBG resulting in elimination of excess testosterone before it can be used, then I am still unclear on the mechanism that causes low SHBG to result in lower total testosterone. Based on my admittedly rudimentary...

Thanks for the helpful tool reference. I hadn't seen that before. Any idea what the reference range is for total estradiol? The discussion that you links to mentions "0.2.....1.5" but I don't see a reference to that in the calculator or the supporting materials. Is that just coming from the...

I've been on TRT since May 2016. I'm currently on a three-month break to reassess some things and am trying to educate myself so that I can hopefully have better results if I have to get back on (which is looking increasingly likely). I have low SHBG (currently around 18 NMOL/L, but as low as...

Ah, okay. That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the response.

I requested my labs from back in 2016 to check my baseline levels from before I got on TRT. I see this in the notes: Lab results reviewed: 05/16/2016 baseline TT: 318 cFT: 7.19 E: 14.6 PSA: 0.48 H/H: 14.2 / 42.5 CMP ok I'm unsure what "H/H: 14.2 / 42.5" means. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the responses. I have always been on once-a-week injections of 170 - 200 mg. That started with the first low T center I visited, continued through my urologist that treated me for a years, and is now being continued by the endo that I see. Both the urologist and the endo have a very...