Recent content by Kirk001

Will be getting a bunch of labwork done soon and will post results, thanks.

Ok T labwork is back. Pre-treatment levels: Total Testosterone 297 ng/dL (264 - 916) and Free Testosterone 8.3 pg/mL (8.7 - 25.1) Levels today: Total Testosterone 1052.3 and Free Testosterone 36.2 So I was near the bottom or below the Labcorp ranges to start with, and now I'm over the high...

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Yeah once they get back to me I will get some testing done. But I feel now pretty much like I did before I started treatment. My pre-treatment E2 was relatively low anyway I guess, 14.5 pg/mL (8.0 - 35.0). After about a month on Clomid it was up to 24 and I had bad estrogenic side effects.

Yep. Waiting to hear what are the minimum labs I need before I test my current levels... don't want to do more than I have to right now since I will have a bunch coming up at 90 days regardless. You tested T and E and did a nurse consultation?

I was comparing my initial protocol with your initial protocol. I'm about 7 weeks in... contacted them about a week ago to see how I go about making an adjustment and I'm waiting to hear back.

If you're doing twice weekly T injections, it would make sense to do HCG as well twice weekly at the same time. If you're concerned about the cost of HCG maybe do 500 IU per shot... that's still a pretty good dose. And yes, to start at 200mg/week of test is starting at the high end (or what some...

Yeah hopefully the higher doses will do it for you man. I'm in a similar boat, I am feeling nothing at steady state on my first TRT protocol... less test cyp than you but more HCG (60 mg and 500 IU twice weekly).

Did it make you sleepy when you used to take it in the morning? Because like you I started out taking it in the morning and I figured if it made me sleepy I'd switch to taking it at night, but I didn't notice that happening so I've stuck with mornings.

I'm 47 days into this protocol... steady state at 40 days... so at this point if the amount in my system is neither increasing nor decreasing, I should be feeling something if I was going to feel something on this protocol, right? Re: the anastrozole it was a holdover from my time on...

Is this odd? I'm 5 1/2 weeks into my first injection protocol and I feel nothing. I'm on 60mg test cyp and 500 IU HCG, twice weekly. Also 0.250mg anastrozole twice weekly. Most recent SHBG number before starting injections was 35.7 nmol/L (16.5 - 55.9). But this was before I did a month of...

Similar thing happened to me on Clomid, and I was not not a high does just 15mg per day. Since stopping Clomid and switching to TRT, and also being a lot more aggressive with anastrozole, the burning and swollen feel are gone.

That info was not in the article genius

I would just tell your provider that based on the information you've seen you don't think an E2 of 32 is problematic with no estrogenic symptoms. If you want to make her happy you could get some to take as-needed, and then not take it unless you got symptoms.

I really don't know whether I'm doing sub-q or shallow IM for T injections. I'm aiming for IM but I'm not sure the needles I have are long enough at 0.5" ... if I wanted to be sure I was getting into the muscle I'd probably get longer needles... but I'm not sure I really care.