Recent content by pnwXLmale

I am no longer seeing Dr. Straight. It was getting pretty pricey and I got the sense that they were more concerned with getting my money than getting me dialed in. Dr. Straight is very kind and is an advocate for getting guys in the upper end of the lab range. Very liberal with dosages, but also...

I just moved to the Portland area about a month ago and am seeing Dr. Straight from Full Potential Men's clinic in Tigard. Too early for me to recommend them and I am on the fence about whether I will be continuing there or switching to Defy Medical. Pros: - Dr. Straight is nice and takes...

Wow I feel you on the k-pin wd's. I quit xanax cold turkey 3.5 years ago after daily use of 2+ mg. It was terrible. Absolutely destroyed my life. I did not lose much if any muscle mass but it surely took its toll on my body. I was unaware of the fact that benzo wd can bottom out your...

I appreciate the advice to be patient. I know it can take some time to get dialed in. I can only hope that I am able to avoid some of the pitfalls and delays to getting dialed in if at all possible. Had I not found this site when I did, who knows how long I would have kept up with the 180 mg T...

Thank you - good to know. I am trying to keep my expectations at bay. It's taken a lifetime to get myself into this mess, I can't expect to find my way out of it without time and hard work. For me, the most important area where I am looking for improvement in is my energy levels and...

Thank you. I have read that clomid can increase E2 as it boosts T, but didn't realize that it could have been effected at such a small amt and duration (75 mg over one week period). Since the e2 values were from blood work drawn two weeks after the clomid (and considering there was no increase...

Gotcha. Thanks! I wasn't sure if you were saying that I was already headed for a crash after taking 1.75 mg over last 8 days or if I'd crash only if I continued the prescribed weekly amt.

Thanks. I am stopping the AI. Is there anything I can do (aside from continuing HCG, as CoastWatcher mentioned) to avoid impending E2 crash? Or are you saying that the crash is inevitable only IF I continue the AI at 2.5 mg/wk?

No I did not sign any contract. Thankfully. There are seemingly few doctors in the Portland, OR area that do TRT and of those that do, the only one that I can find that does injections rather than pellets or gels/creams. I think I'm going to try to switch to Defy asap. In the meantime I will...

This is what I was afraid of. I will find another doctor. Any suggestions for more reasonable dosage range in the meantime would be appreciated. I have only taken the loading dose (300 mg) and one half of one week's dose (90 mg) so far. For the anastrazole, I only took .5 mg yesterday (though...

Hello everyone. Like most of you probably, I am an avid consumer of the information free-for-all we call the internet, and when I first learned that my testosterone levels were low, I scoured the web for hours upon end, realizing very quickly that there are a lot of people with strong opinions...