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My clinic moved me to Gonadorelin as their pharmacy of choice can't do HCG any longer. My doctor says if I can find a pharmacy that will do HCG at a reasonable price, he will send the scrip there -- now the hard part: where to find one that will sell HCG at a reasonable price. Any pointers?

Had an interesting meeting today with my urologist about some ED issues. When he heard I was on TRT he started asking a lot of questions, criticized my levels, butthurt I was going to a clinic, told me the clinics don’t have real md’s but naturopath’s, etc. Generally left me feeling scolded and...

About a month ago, I switched from 2x a week IM (3.5 each time) to 2x a week Sub-Q (same). Drawing oil into that insulin needle is excruciatingly slow and makes me wonder if there is a better way? The injection itself is wayyyyyy easier than IM, but the process is slow. I haven't gotten the...

I feel okay -- my issue is that I can't just donate blood. Blood thinners. So I have to pay through the nose to get blood drawn (over covid, places stopped doing therapeutic draws and the one that is left for me decided to go sky high on rates). So I'm trying to figure out my options.

Latest results. My SHBG isn't on here, but was 38.1 down from 40 in September. I inject 3.5ml twice a week and I'm on HCG (or the new thing they put me on). I have a call with the clinic this week and I don't know if they are going to say my T is too high, or what. I know the CBC numbers will...

*sigh* I just started hCG a month ago and now my clinic has let me know that they can no longer get hCG so they need to move me to Gonadorelin, something I know almost nothing about. Is there anyone using this? Is it worth it? I went on hCG for only two goals: get my balls back and get some...

I should have written that part differently. My ball got smaller from the T, not the AI. Like from the size of small eggs to big almonds.

Excellent -- and the loss of morning wood unrelated to hCG?

How do you know when you've had "too much?" They sent me 5ml a month and tell me to use only 3 of them. If I do weekly and not skip, that would take up 1ml more. Are there symptoms that tell you "too much, dude, back off"?

Do the effects start pretty quickly? Again, I've only had two full weeks of doing it, this will will be my third, and then I'm supposed to take 1 week off from injecting. That's what the clinic doc is telling me -- does that match what you folks do?

Been on TRT a little over a year. 140 a week of test cyp (split into half, Monday AM, Thurs PM), and started hCG 2 weeks ago (just started week three yesterday): .5ml twice a week. Only thing I have noticed that may or may not be related is that my morning wood has lessened in frequency in the...

So a few questions for the group. Months ago, I split my weekly T injection into 2 per week, and I stopped taking my AI. My balls got so small that I decided to add HCG into my protocol, and I'm now into my third week taking it (I've been told to do 3 weeks on, 1 week off). I'm not sure when I...

I'm tired of balls the size of raisins, so I am adding in HCG starting with my next box. I've been doing TRT for a year now -- what will I notice with the HCG as it starts to become part of my program?

yeah, for my legs I use the bigger needle -- I have just seen so many videos touting the 1/2" for delta and apparently that's too much. 1" needles in the delt leave me very sore for days.

I am not sure what I'm doing wrong, but every time I attempt to use my deltoids as a target, I end up with a lump under my skin and a bruise. Every time. Injecting into my quads, never an issue. I'm trying to get a better rotation of spots since I am doing 2x a week now, but I've been sticking...

Thanks for all the input -- I will be meeting with my TRT doc soon. My primary doctor felt my T was way too high at the "low" and would like to know what my number is midway between shots...but he knows he is not managing that, it was just his opinion. If you stop this, do your balls come...

I started this journey about a year ago when I felt my sex drive and performance were limited. I was tested and came out at around 550 on T and the clinic recommended 140 weekly, which put me at about 1100 at the low. I was also put on an AI as the doctor strove to drive me under 25 on...

Got the new numbers from my low point (day before I stick) (I used the lab from this page): T: 876 E: 37 Free Test: 126 SHBG: 37 So not sure how to interpret these myself, and could use the help of this fellowship. I've been on T for a year now. I used to take an AI once a week a day after my...

I don't know if I feel better on AI or off. I have never been "off AI" while doing T, so I can only compare to pre-T. Libido still where it was which is what lead me to T in the first place. My doctor's reaction has been to push the E2 down further, yet a lot of other doctors say I shouldn't be...

Kinda. I still don't see a "when your E2 reaches this level, you should consider an AI" explanation. So in my case, I've *always* been on an AI, so I have no idea what E2 looks like without it. When I started TRT, I was at 503 T, 25.4 E2 A few months later, my T moved to 988, E2 was 35 (and I...

I see so many threads saying "if my E2 is too high or too low I get <x> symptom" but no numbers that show what that really is. My current routine, as an example, is 140 of T per week, injected once and 1mg of AI, once a week. It puts me at 980 at the low (day before shot) for T, and E2 of around...

Always open -- the only input I have had so far is from my actual doctor. The only thing we have played with is the AI (it moved from .5 to .75 and now to 1). The test for E2 says "Roche ECLIA methodology." I don't know enough to know which one that is.

I'm on 140 (.7ml) of T once weekly. I take 1mg of Anastrozole a day later. My last numbers from a few weeks ago: T: 1079 E: 39 SHBG: 42

I am at the point of trying Trimix because ED meds are just not helping me. I can get hard naturally most mornings, but I don't stay hard long enough to finish. By nighttime, rarely happens at all. Viagra is hit or miss on producing anything other than congestion. I take a daily 5mg Cialis at...

Blood is drawn the day before my next shot, so I should be at the lowest of the week.

I checked the notes section and apparently it's 23.4, which looks like it's calculated off of a default Albumin score. Why they don't just test for it overall, I don't know, but that still puts me at the low end fo that. How does one *increase* the free T?

My labs don't have FT, I believe he just calculates it since I can't see it on the lab results.

5mg. Update: doc wants to increase my AI

Okay, relevant numbers out of CBC: RBC was high (5.95). Will donate blood to drag that down. Hematocrit was 50.7. Test: 1079 Estradiol: 39.1 SHBG: 41.7 Had my consult today, wants to up the AI to 1 from .75, target range of 15-30 on Estradiol. Believes that number is what is driving my...

We started at .5, then moved to .75, weekly a day after the shot. (Armidex) And my last E2 number (this week) was 39. I started at 25, 2 months later was at 35, then we upped the AI, and now I am at 39.