Recent content by Stoak

I have come off once before to have a second child. I got covid immediately during serm therapy and lost a ton of weight. Couldn't wait to get back on. Let's see if this time is different. I did regain my natural levels after 6 weeks and my wife was pregnant 4 months later so I know my body...

Yes I know that i didnt gain 30 pounds of muscle. I feel like you and me there are many many people in our situation wondering wtf am I doing?

I tried that. I ran 112 mg in daily injections and ran 700 total t and had zero symptom resolution. I always needed to be 25-30 free t for it to work along with hcg.

Feels that way. I bought into a lot of the BS coming out of the high end testosterone promoters early on. "200mg a week starting dose. There is no link between BPH and testosterone at any level. Testosterone improves cardiovascular function etc." These are by the same crew pushing 200mg...

After 5 years of HRT/TRT I'm packing it in. I now have BPH, I'm on a statin and repatha, I take cialis and an alpha blocker... testosterone and hcg, occasionally arimidex. The thing is that I didn't need any of these drugs 6 years ago before I started TRT so why am I on them now? I bought...

Ty for sharing, Nelson.

For about 15 years I have had symptoms off and on (long duration mild burning post ejaculate mainly) which my previous urologist chalked up to chronic non bacterial prostatitis. We'd use bactrim and an NSAID and the problem would maybe go away on its own maybe not over the years. I started TRT...

My Lp(a) is single digits which is about as low as it gets so this is not from that.

I did a far share of dirty bulking on aromatizing compounds. Mainly Dbol, Test, Deca, EQ. My blood pressure was probably elevated then. I did diet down multiple times and was quite fit then but didn't use any other compounds for that. No arimidex. Nobody was really controlling E2 heavily...

Do you have a history of AAS use or long term high TRT use?

Well I have been taking 2.5 - 5mg per day for 5 years so that's helpful to know.

Agreed. If it was as simple as just reading a book every would be solved and it isn't. Modern cutting edge steroid abusers are now crushing their LDLs and ApoB to sub 50 with low dose crestor and Zetia. Perhaps they are correct that it enables them to abuse much more safely. Nobody can...

I simply don't understand how LDL can be a very minor cause when the entire goal of mainstream cardiology is to lower LDL when evidence of ASCVD is present. I don't believe everything is some sort of conspiracy theory.

My LDL has been relatively high for years creeping from 130-160 over the past 10 years. My natural HDL is 70-80 and when on TRT it's in the 50-60 level. My LDL basically stays flat on TRT or not. My triglycerides are always always always super low at 50 level. My ApoB recently came back at...

I have been on TRT for years with a break to make a baby. I can guess my numbers based on the dose and they have been really consistent. My standard dose has been 80mg cyp E3.5D w/250ish HCG (this part has varied) and sometimes .125-.25mg adex. I resumed TRT end of summer on (80mg + 300iu...