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It's known that a healthy adult male (25-35 years old) makes from 6-9mg of testosterone per day, that's 42-63 mg per week, so one could argue that proper TRT is to replace endogenous T with exogenous T between those numbers. My understanding is that T. Cypionate, for example is 70% T and 30%...

For what it's worth, at those levels of TT/FT I get the same symptoms, on the other hand, HCG always made me feel good, more optimistic, less self-critical. If I were to guess (probably incorrectly), I'd say that your free T is lower than what your body is used to, or what you need to feel good...

It seems all the hoopla comes from a Joe Rogan podcast with a gentleman called Andrew Huberman. ‘Nough said. Over and out.

A quick search in PubMed shows that Fadogia works similar to a PDE5-I (Cialis) restoring NO in the penile and testicular tissue… in rats! I have not found anything showing it could “work on the Leydig cells” which I assumed (maybe incorrectly) that it was an LH analog.

Interesting. I did not know about Fadogia mimicking LH. Is there any research you can cite in this regard? What was your experience in this sense, do you have labs that show the effect of Fadogia? My understanding is that Tongkat Ali either binds to SHBG or somehow avoids testosterone from...

What you're relating is very similar to what happens to me. When I was skinnier, I could even see my heart beating on my chest, similar to your carotid arteries in the video. I can "feel" my heart pumping harder. This is upsetting and this effect increased my anxiety in a sort of doom loop. My...

When you say "pounding heart" what does it feel? Is it that you feel that you heart is beating harder like trying to get out of your body? Do you feel your pulse when your at rest, or trying to sleep, and the pulse is so loud that can become distracted? When you feel like that, have you...

I tried 31G, 29G, 28G and 27G and very much prefer 27G for sub-q injections, at least for now, but I'm just starting, so it may get old quickly. I do 0.15 mL Test Cypionate Cottonseed Oil (Perrigo) and with 27G it flows extremely easy. Even with 28G drawing was sloooow....Pinning doesn't feel...

Thank you so much @Cataceous. I'll consider your advice and keep my options open. For the next 3 months I'll try to control myself and not make any changes in the protocol to see how I respond. Once I get to a stable state, I'll reevaluate and consider progesterone, hCG (again) and some of your...

Thanks @Cataceous! I plan to continue my "experiment" like you call it, unchanged for at least 3 months, unless something happens. In 3 months I'll reassess to see if I need to up or down the dosage. I'm shooting for 600-700 trough, which according to what you mentioned of troughs being 1/3 of...

Thanks for responding @Cataceous. I have called BS on him on a number of things, including saying that "hCG preserves testicular function on TRT is myth created by the clinics". I also know he told another person that he had "primary hypogonadism due to complete testicular failure", yet...

I was thinking... since I'm using a relatively low dose (2 x 40 mg) and sub-Q (abdominal fat) perhaps the slower rate of absorption and the low dose make it more difficult to feel any effect "immediately", so maybe it will take longer to feel the effects and it will be subtler as well. Wonder if...

Thanks @rimster for this comprehensive anecdote. I had a similar experience when I started HCG, at the time 2000 IU once a week. The feeling was fantastic for two or three weeks in every sense, then it went away and it hasn't come back. Mood has no doubt improved, more optimistic, but the same...

Thanks @rimster for taking the time. When you say "i immediately felt better", you meant, an hour after injection, a day, a week, a month? I always heard (since my young days) that when people used testosterone they "immediately" felt better, like superman; perhaps those anecdotes are for...

To all of you knowledgeable people of this forum, I have one question. I just started TRT, had my first SQ injection on Saturday, 40 mg Testosterone Cypionate (200mg/ml), on a bi-weekly schedule, 80 mg/week total. All my prior experience has been with HCG and enclomiphene (all possible...

One question, is this Sub-q, IM or shallow IM?

Totally agree!

Wow, that's a relief. And I may try to get that 5.5 (I could be anal sometimes...) simply because of the challenge. I paid $70.50 for 10 vials like the ones I posted earlier (Prerrigo 200 mg/1ml - single use) so I guess it does down to $7.05 per vial. Which conservatively makes the treatment...

I finally got my prescription. It's 200 mg/ml, 1 ml vial, but I assume I can easily draw 0.2 ml (40 mg) twice a week and with luck it should last me 2 weeks, allowing me to build my rainy day stock (thanks @readalot) This is the one I got this morning. Any advise regarding how to best make...

I'm covering the bill @readalot ($70 x 3 months). The prescription I got was for 10 ml of 200 mg/ml. Initially I thought it would come in one vial with a rubber stopper that would allow me to draw multiple dosages, as I will be tuning in my treatment (doctor initially recommended 200 mg/2 weeks...

Thanks @Cataceous. Helpful and on point as always. I freaked out today after the pharmacy called me multiple times with changes from 200 mg, to 100 mg, to multiple vials, to single use, etc.

Hello, I'm about to start T-Cypionate. Pharmacy tells me that it only lasts 28 days so I must order individual single use vials of 100 mg each so they last 70 days which is what was prescribed by the doctor. Problem is that even though the doctor ordered 100 mg/week, I was planning on using 40...

You're welcome. I have benefited a lot from information and knowledge from a lot of people on this site, the least I can do it to pay it forward. Also pardon me if I'm too verbose but I believe that one should explain one's thoughts in the clearest form possible and without ambiguities. I'm not...

HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. It's a hormone produced primarily by the placenta in pregnant women that that two subunits, Alpha and Beta; the Alpha subunit is identical to the LH hormone produced by the pituitary and responsible for stimulating the Leydig cells in the testicles to...

Exactly. That's the one I referred to. "Multiple small dose hCG administration in contrast to a single high dose does not desensitize but rather enhances Leydig cell steroidogenesis" And that's the reason I'm doing it too. My reasoning was: if they consider 300 IU every day a low dose, with...

Yep, 14 days, 30 days. 6 months. The honeymoon, like in marriage, is only one (at least with the same woman) LUTS - Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Yes, I tried 100 IU a day. No much change really. I'm on 200 IU a day based on a study that compared a one time 1500 IU shot vs 300 IU every day for 5 days (both 1500 IU a week) and noticed that 1500 IU at once double testosterone but incurred in a huge spike of estradiol and progesterone, 300...

Good for you! I've changed from 2000 IU a week to 200 IU every day to every possibility in between (never exceeding 2000 a week total), and nothing brings back the amazing feeling I had during the first couple of weeks. Everything under the sun was better. Unfortunately, my doctor did not order...

I hear you @rimster. Been there, done that. It seems that the body has found homeostasis at a point that's not very gratifying for us, you can shake it for a bit, but it always comes back to where it was. I don't think there's much you can do. I've done everything: diet, exercise (cardio and...

I did not consider that, but it's absolutely true @madman. These are trough values, not peak. I'm not on TRT yet, so I tend to miss those "pesky details". Thanks for pointing that out. This is the reason I'm on this forum, for posts like this. Thanks again.

Congratulations @JmarkH! It seems your nee protocol is working quite well. It was very nice to see the free T in the upper range while HCT is very low at 39.8. It'll, probably take a while to see the results of the change long term, but you're definitely off to a good start I think. Very...