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At trough I got to the point where I was only hitting slightly higher than that on 200mg a week.....my SHBG dove down and I was converting a lot to E2.....its your body's way of trying to get rid of what it perceives as too much T in your system and "balance out." As posted above there is an...

Makes me wish I would have started with someone other than a family doc ten years ago......

I saw a podcast with Dr Kominiarek a few days ago and he said TRT doesn't work for everybody and he can put guys in one of 4 categories: one, they feel great and its the best thing they've ever done; two, they feel subtly better; three, they don't feel anything from it; four, they feel worse and...

I am currently on one click (50 mg) to scrotum a day for last 3 weeks. Am getting some bloodwork Monday.....feel pretty good overall, but libido kind of took a dive after first week and a half. I've been on injections for almost 10 years and have never been completely "satisfied" with any...

That's been my experience. Been at this almost ten years and highest dose I used was 1cc for awhile. My free T at trough was in the mid to high twenties on that dose (once a week). I was taking an AI and my numbers looked good on paper but I was anxious, overstimulated, bloated and struggled...

Yeah.....I started with the lowest and will go up as needed, providing everything settles in. On injections I typically do best on a lower dose 2x week. I've just never felt good with my levels on the higher end. Transdermal could be a different animal, but I didn't fare well last time when I...

I'm about two weeks along on the scrotal cream. One click (50 mg) in the morning. As I stated in a previous post libido and erections have upticked. Biggest issue is every afternoon I get a hyped up feeling. Can hear and feel my heartbeat and get a restless, hot feeling. From what I can...

Sounds like my story other than I would add it has exacerbated my pre existing anxiety.

Reminds me of a post Dr Saya put on here awhile back in reference to everyday dosing. When using cyp you have to remember the "stacking" effect that takes place due to the ester. You are getting about 7 mg of test daily, but not all of it is getting used initially. I remember he said it takes...

Yep.....your talking to a guy who has tried going off twice....I typically feel better on a lower dose, but I know what you are talking about as far as the flat feeling when you are stable. I've come to the conclusion you can't fool mother nature.

I remember reading somewhere about a guy that, for whatever reason, got the idea to vary his dose weekly and then take a week off......he did like 60 mg, 80 mg, 100 mg, then took a week off then started again at 60. He swore by it and said he believed since the levels in normal men aren't...

What madman said.....I am one of those guys that didn't seem to absorb subQ when I tired it (for whatever reason.....maybe my fat is thick). You wont know until you try it. I personally don't see any difference between subQ and shallow IM as far as the actual injection goes.

Just so you aren't feeling alone I just switched back to cream from injections for largely the same reasons. I had tried it before but it felt a little overstimulating, presumably from the increased DHT from what my doc said. I was doing the scrotal route, but started out on 1/2 gram 2x day...

I have a history of anxiety also, and I think that probably contributes to it. I was at the gym when mine hit and I had some light headedness and a dull ache that developed afterwards so I went and got checked. Knock on wood I haven't had any in a while, and ironically i have been running a...

I have experienced the PVC thing and it actually caused me to go to the ER on one occasion. Did the holter monitor, full cardiac workup to include cardiac CT with contrast. After all of that I was told testosterone CAN interact with / influence epinephrine and norepinephrine levels which can...

I don't know man......I've crashed my E2 twice to the single digits but it didn't take me but a few weeks to go back to normal after stopping the AI (which I don't use anymore). I would THINK its impossible for test injections to be responsible for LOWERING your e2 since that's where E2 comes...

As I've had it explained to me, when you are running high doses your SHBG lowers as your body's natural way to try and "excrete" the testosterone. SHBG level is tied to alot of things, but it is known that high test levels will lower it. Mine went from high teens to low 30s just from lowering...

In my N=1 experience I tend to agree with you. I've seen other persons report they've helped them, and I know a lot of well known docs that believe in use of all the "ancillaries," but in 9 years I have tried all of it and I may as well be taking a sugar pill personally.

Just quit the AI for awhile and it will take care of itself fairly quickly. Maybe not as quick as you like, but it beats doing something to try and swing it too far the other way.

Yeah, you are dependent on it. Just like someone with high BP is dependent on Losartan or someone with hypogonadism is dependent on testosterone. If you have been steadily increasing your dose to keep feeling the original "feeling" you got from it then there might be cause for concern...

This is all over the place and highly individualistic. There are quite a few threads on this topic if you search. In a nutshell most on here seem to prefer injections, some do well on the cream and others use both. I would say give it a try and see. Not like your gonna hurt anything, and...

Well. At least yours isn't thick and sticky. Since starting TRT almost 9 years ago, everytime I blow a load i feel like I'm starring in a remake of Spiderman where he is shooting a spiderweb at someone. Never could figure that out. Wife refuses to finish blowjobs the "correct" way because...

What ended up working for me was lowering the dose.....that's not to say that it will work for you, but I would have T at trough in the upper ranges (900-1000), E2 in the 30s, good free levels and would still fight with not feeling well. I am kind of a difficult case in that i had pre existing...

Give it a try and see....USUALLY more frequent injections calls for a slight decrease in the dosage but it doesn't have to be that way. Also, the pages of history are littered with folks whose labs looked "perfect" but felt like shit anyway (been there). You gotta find what works for you...

I don't mind.....if I still have it and can find it. This may not be the best thing to admit but I have never been that religious about keeping old bloodwork.....

I haven't taken any in over two years since I lowered my dose. When I did take it i was on anywhere from 160 to 200 mg a week and was initially prescribed .25 EOD. That crashed me pretty quick, so I began the painstaking pain in the ass of trying to "dial in" on an AI. Last dose I was on was...

I agree everyone should try to get by without an AI if possible, but not everyone is the same. My doc is a big proponent of lowering the dose until an AI is no longer needed if symptoms of high E2 are present, but again this doesn't work for everybody (I'm fortunate it worked for me). In my...

I inject IM in delts and quad. Was doing that before I tried SubQ and after 6 weeks I had bloods drawn to see where I was at because I was starting to notice diminishing libido and energy. Didn't change anything other than I injected SubQ into belly fat. My trough T level was 350 ish when it...

Your level at 40 mg EOD seems low too.....are you injecting subQ or IM? When I tried subQ I didn't absorb it well for some reason and had low numbers for my dosage. I've seen others report this as well....

I think we will continue to see more progress in the knowledge of the interactions between hormones, neurotransmitters, and genetics that will help this field in the future. Its actually a young science and if we were here in 100 years everybody would look back and laugh at what we re doing...

If you've tried all of the above and benzos were the only thing that worked, I think I would take them. As stated, Klonopin is long acting and probably the best one for long term maintenance of anxiety. There's a lot of horseshit chicken littles out there that will tell you benzos will give...