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In 2018 at age 48 after 7 years of TRT I tried a Clomid / HCG restart under the supervision of a doctor mentioned quite frequently on this forum. After six weeks my gonadotropins were elevated, my balls were bigger than they’ve ever been in my life, but my total T was 348 and free T was 7….and...

Your HPTA is functional and your T / FT levels are not that bad. Estradiol is lowish but not that bad….Cialis and Zinc are both weak AIs…I would STRONGLY recommend checking other causes for your symptoms and using alternative methods of raising testosterone (Clomid / HCG) before jumping on...

When I was on cream 50 mg 2x Daily got my DHT up to around 250….my total T was around 1100…it doesn’t seem like you are converting as bad as you might think. I will admit that despite the Morganthaler Saturation Model and other studies that seem to show blood levels don’t necessarily reflect...

Mine was “uncomfortable” but tolerable…..I hated the Urodynamics test more….bad thing about the prostate is there’s no gentle way to get a good look at it without going up the behind or up the front…

Same thing happened to me with the cream and my labs looked “perfect.” Even my lipid profile was better on cream….but the anxiety crept back in after initially being much better, and then I started having erection issues….I don’t totally blame the anxiety on hormones because I had it before and...

Good luck….I had monopolar TURP last year after a failed Urolift….they found a small (less than 1 percent) amount of cancer in the removed tissue. I didn’t have median lobe issues, so our situation is a bit different. The first couple of days were kind of rough, but after a couple of weeks I...

I will be the first to admit that patience is not a strong suit of mine, especially in the erection department. I’m at the age where the old adage “never waste a hard on” rings truer than ever, so I want it fixed right now!

I don’t take an AI…Ive just noticed during times when I’ve increased my dose it naturally rises and when it gets elevated I get soft erections….and, anecdotally there are several men who state using a small dose of AI to lower their E2 results in better overall feeling and erection quality. I...

In your clinical experience have you ever seen a guy that was just sensitive to Supra physiologic levels of estradiol and didn’t tolerate it well? For me, it seems anytime my E2 gets higher it affects erectile function (soft erections). If that (or any other negative effects) happen, do you...

I heard Dr Rob Kominiarek say something along these lines awhile back….he sees four types of reactions from giving a guy testosterone…one, the guy feels great, has no problems and it’s the best thing he’s ever done…two, the changes and benefits are subtle, but it improves their life….three, they...

Jesus….like I said, I haven’t followed him in a while….reminds me of those machines in the old gyms that had the big rubber band that went around your waist and I guess was supposed to vibrate fat off your stomach!

I haven’t followed him in years….I used to find some of the videos and books interesting, but he kind of went off the deep end with some strange stuff and then became an obvious ego maniac huckster…what kills me is I’ve been to two well known doctors in this “realm,” one of which was a frequent...

I’ve been on for 12 years and to be honest I’m one did those guys that had a hard time at first and tried to come off (unsuccessfully). My issue was preexisting anxiety that was aggravated by exogenous T, and the fact I started with a well intentioned doctor who put me on the 1cc every week...

If I recall right they were 100 mg, and I broke them in half and did 50 mg 2x a day….never did blood work….after about 3-4 weeks just wasn’t digging it and went back to shots….my doc said several folks liked them, but they were expensive and I didn’t want to mess with it anymore.

In my personal experience DHEA increases my E2, Pregnenolone does not….

All I’ve ever done is the troches, which you put between your cheek and gum. It was twice a day dosing, and to be honest I didn’t care for it….never had blood work on it, but after a few weeks I felt like it wasn’t really working. There are probably others out there that will chime in that may...

I think being 25 again and having a different member of a female championship beach volleyball team to choose from every night would work for me!

My HCT is 46 on 60 mg a week….but even when I was taking 200 a week my HCT never got above 50….of all the sides from too high of a dose (for me) H/H was never one of them.

The good thing about Clomid is if it doesn’t work you didn’t cause any shutdown to the HPTA….I like your docs approach….Clomid didn’t work for me at attempting to come off TRT, but I think age and the length my system was shutdown was the biggest barrier. Give it a shot.

If you can afford it….!

Oh trust me….I don’t believe that to be the case…just referencing what I’ve heard him say since OP stated that was his doctor. I did the large dose once a week thing with the AI twelve years ago when I started and had every side effect you could get except for elevated H/H….twelve years later I...

I’ve heard Rand state on you tube videos that a guy has to stay above 800-850 total to derive benefits from TRT….considering he advocates one injection per week that means you are going to be supra-physiological most of the time….some guys tolerate that, others don’t (I am in the DONT camp). He...

When I attempted to come off I did the HCG/ Clomid protocol and my gonadotropins rose and IGF went down as expected….my T level didn’t increase much, but that’s likely due to age and the fact my balls are fried…I was taking 50 mg a day for a month though….you either need to take more or try some...

I think it would affect me too if there were fifteen people ten feet away and one with a camera shoved 3 inches from my ass crack….!

I remember watching a video of one of his lectures and he was answering questions from the doctors….one asked about DHT elevations with high dose scrotal cream and he said “quit testing it!” I guess in his world ignorance is bliss….and I get that some docs are gonna come off as a little...

And once in awhile a baked potato slathered with butter goes quite nicely with a 16 oz ribeye…

I’m glad we have engineers and math folks on here! They lost me in eighth grade when letters started showing up with numbers in the problems!!!

I noticed the bupropion on your list….you doing that to try to offset SE’s from the escitalopram? And on another note since we re kindred spirits in the anxiety game, I jumped through the hoops to get my insurance to finally cover BRAND name Zoloft, which is what always worked for me. It’s...

I wish I could sustain carnivore because I like the idea and have seen it work for a lot of people….I can abstain from sweets, bread and pasta pretty easily but I gotta have some fruit / nuts and other things with a different taste once in a while!!! Ha.

Damn….and I sometimes think I’m going overboard with Pregnenolone, zinc, magnesium, D3 and a multivitamin!!!

As I near 54 I’m interested in this type of thing….in fairness to myself I can say without reservation I’m in better physical / metabolic shape than most folks my age and still put the work in….however, I’m at the stage where if I “go for broke” trying to test myself the margin for error on...