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I’m not sure how I would know that if I didn’t have the blood work. I didn’t mean I ‘felt’ like my free T doubled. I’m also on TRT and have been for all these numbers, being Test-C and HCG, no AI, with evening HGH peptides 5 days a week, though I had normal HGH in the morning 4 days a week at...

As a fun added wrinkle if anyone’s interested: unbound T4 or T3 (as in not NDT) also doubled my free testosterone levels despite leaving my SHBG unaffected, with my total test going down alongside that, presumably because I’m using or free floating more test and not holding onto it. My estrogen...

My issues don’t appear to be like many issues folks have. No dietary changes or macro changes help it, though easier to digest things make it better than harder to digest things. I’d physically seize up after eating sometimes and at its worst I’d wake up the next morning with food in my stomach...

Anyone had any luck in being on replacement doses of T3 / Liothyronine and not having their muscles go flat? 25-32mcg of T3 spread out throughout the morning completely fixes some debilitating gut issues I have, but makes my muscles go flat. My cortisol tends to run lower, so upping carbs too...

From LabCorp I was given a series of result sheets, the first time most of them basically saying ‘pending’, and then on the final one half or more of the results just said they couldn’t calculate or do them right. Doc is in contact with them now about it. It’s his first outing with them and at...

Seems like it was a one off fluke with me then and not necessarily representative of LabCorp. Should I trust the results that are there on the lab tests then, like the total testosterone and free testosterone?

As an added wrinkle to all this, if you’re having issues with low cortisol like me, you can help with glycogen retention while not going crazy on carbs by upping protein, which seems to lower your cortisol less in response. Seems to preferentially convert to glycogen in excess, which is probably...

My doc usually uses Quest and I get my own tests through Quest and DiscountLabs, but my doc recently tried LabCorp because he said they gave him a better deal on a wider variety of tests. Half my results aren’t there and say things like ‘unable to calculate result since non-numeric result...

You’ve completely missed the entire point. I also inject daily and have for years, currently test-c. The OP asked if he would feel better if he injected daily but on some days did 14mg and other days did 18mg to avoid having his total test be too high all the time, the idea being that some days...

You can alternate your dosing if you want but that small of a change day to day likely isn’t going to make much difference than evening the dose out day to day because of the long half life of the ester causing a slow T drop for 5-7 days depending on what you’re on. You won’t have much less of a...

How often were you taking it? You could try 2.5mg EOD or something to see if you can ride the ups without the downs. I do around 5mg daily, mostly because although I shoot for 2.5mg, splitting a tablet that much with mine is hit or miss. I also experience the stuffy nose thing, hadn’t thought to...

Morning SubQ. Never tried in the evening.

750x3 so 2250 apparently.

Keeping this brief to avoid derailing the thread: SARMs. Pretty small amounts too, but before all this started for me and during I’ve tried for short periods to microdose them both alone and alongside HRT to see if it’d help. Never heard the DHEA-S thing but my levels were also pretty high, so...

When I’ve tried things closer to more potent anabolics my cortisol went down, which for me sucks since it’s already usually too low. HCG has been found to increase cortisol and at the very least makes me feel better. All this stuff is all over the place for everyone.

If you’re shut down you’re shut down, so I doubt that’s why some prefer less. Thyroid suppresses, but the HPTA seems to just turn off. It’s more likely to me that since test speeds up a lot of things and processes, if you had a hole in your health bucket before more test, test will just make it...

It’s hard to say because it’s all speculative because despite all the blood tests we take and measurements we have, there’s still always more that we can’t really know or measure, and hormones all interact with one another. I think everyone should safely experiment over longer periods of time...

Everybody’s different, but if your bloodwork is great and you feel better with more test and there aren’t any negative sides, I don’t see any compelling reasons not to be on the higher end of the spectrum. I think everybody owes it to themselves to experiment with that and find what works best...

I’ve been on different schemes and pinned Test-E at around that amount for years. Compared to the same total Test-E amount pinned 3x a week, my E2 went down by about 5-6 points and my total t as I recall went up by about 5 points on whatever total t scale is in the smallest increments up to 25...

Always the micronized kind in capsule/tabletish form, seemingly all from wild yam. I’ve used a bunch of different kinds of the better brands. Right now on Klaire Labs and before that Allergy Research and there were a couple of others. All had the same results. Klaire Labs so far has been my...

It immediately does for me, which in my case was welcome. I’ve taken fludrocortisone before, and the results were similar without the more negative side effects I experienced, like cramping from potassium loss. Immediately, same day, at 200mg+ I’ll retain more water.

Seems like everyone processes it a little differently. I’ve tried much lower doses of oral pregnenolone from the good brands recommended here and others, but didn’t have much luck in terms of how I felt or serum levels on blood tests. Been doing great with 400mg though, all at once in the...

As a counter to that, I get boners whenever I have to pee, particularly on cialis.

25-50mg of cream in the morning, no capsules as I don’t have prescription access to that. My cortisol test while on this though was the bottom number of the range in the morning. I have never tried oral prog. I have Sorghum but haven’t gotten around to trying it. I have had minor aid with using...

I recently did a trial of 5mg of Hydrocortisone again, and although it helped as it always does, I actually preferred the results in general of upping pregnenolone in pill form, so I came off it after a week. Based on past tests and general feeling, my cortisol’s low all throughout the day and...

I originally came into all this after Finasteride, and the cream likely helps with mood because of the higher AR content of the skin. I also have issues with lower cortisol, however, so I figured it had less of a chance to help with that. So far the capsules actually has seemed to help with...

I’ve been playing around with different protocols and mixes outside of test, as for me that stays constant. Had some good results with 200-300mg of pregnenolone pills in the morning alongside my 50mg preg cream and 25mg progesterone cream, alongside my 750iu-ish HCG 3x a week.

I was able to unintentionally recreate some of the anger and mental side effects I had on HC with just T4, so I’ve recently begun experimenting with low dose HC again to see how I do on it this time. 5mg split up throughout the day. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Sorry, meant oral and topical. I’ve done sublingual but at small doses (2.5mg-5mg) and didn’t notice anything from it.

I do both but transdermally is better for me too. Most likely because the higher 5AR content in the skin increasing conversion to allopregnenolone.

I’ve done different schemes. I always do it in the morning, but have tried having 1-3 doses spaced out in the morning vs spaced out throughout the day beginning with the morning. It’s hard to say which was better. I have tried both hydrocortisone and cortisone acetate for my low cortisol...