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Pregnyl has been out of stock/backordered at all of my local pharmacies for the last few months. I posted about this yesterday, but Rite Aid finally got me a generic HCG made by Fresenius Kabi, $199 for two 10mL vials, and my body seems to respond to it as well as as I've responded to Pregnyl...

Howdy! Sharing a post I made in another thread. I still need blood work done to verify, but anecdotally I feel as good on the FK generic as I did on pregnyl, which is better than I’ve felt on any other generic.

Thanks, I’ll post in there too!

I recently switched pharmacies due to cost - for whatever reason, my local Rite Aid is able to get Pregnyl at a significantly cheaper price than Costco, about $107 a vial after a GoodRX coupon (it's up to $267 at Costco as of the time of this writing!). However, nobody has been able to get...

"Brain fog" is a very nebulous set of symptoms - what is it, specifically, that you are noticing?

This is all without consulting all the notes I took at the time of diagnosis so details may be wrong or spotty, but my recollection is that I am primary. I believe that my LH and FSH were always "normal" but on the low end of normal - not in a way that suggested anything wrong with the...

I don't want to speak out of turn here, but in my non-professional opinion, you are doing too many things too quickly. You are 54 years old, on blood thinners, overweight, and don't exercise regularly. You got one blood test done, and two days later you ask for advice regarding it. @Systemlord ...

Alright, doctor is on board with my plan - I found a few more studies regarding the benefits of smaller, more regular doses, too, so that's also encouraging. We are going to re-test in a month. Also 2500iu twice a week was a typo on their end, thank goodness. If my current change to the dosing...

Anecdotal could-be-placebo results after four days of 300iu a day: holding surprisingly little water after a big holiday meal, libido through the roof.

Yeah, I've bought the Sifasi and ZyHCG from them and it was "eh." - they nominally have Pregnyl, but I've never seen it actually in stock.

Totally, yeah. Also, I swore I wrote more in the above post. So, basically, I'm at 2,000iu right now, injected as 1,000iu twice a week. The doctor wants me to go up to 2,500iu twice a week (5000iu weekly). This is a non-starter for the simple fact that a 10000iu vial has just doubled in price...

Doctor says no tamoxifen, he doesn't use it. He wants me to drastically increase my HCG dose and drop anastrozole. I have proposed something different, because they cannot keep my dumb ass off of PubMed. This study found that daily, small doses of HCG not only prevent your leydig cells from...

Hi there! Thanks for hopping in. I’ll address these in order: re 1 and 2, if I understand you correctly, zinc and other things I may be taking may be inhibiting aromatization, explaining the low e2. This is possible but as the e2 has been low-ish about once a year since I started getting blood...

Eyyy, there’s a familiar name! And yeah, I mean, I certainly don’t feel as good as I did at 550 but I also don’t feel as bad as I did at, uh, 97. It’s very fuzzy, like I can’t articulate the specifics I just feel like I’m not feeling as good as I could be. But that could be unrelated to my...

I appreciate the perspective! I recently started taking a supplement containing boron, which can lower SHBG, so I may drop that as well. My apologies for not mentioning that in the original post. In the interest of completeness, the only other supplements I take are a stim-free preworkout, fish...