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https://www.excelmale.com/threads/at-what-free-t-level-do-you-feel-optimal.26295/

Depends what you mean by recovered. Most do not fully recover that had the classic symptoms of PFS.

The peak is short-lived, levels drop rapidly after that! If your trough level is too low and peak is too high, it will be impossible for some to truly feel optimized. For these men twice weekly is prefered to the yoyo hormone levels you get on a weekly protocol, where levels peak high and low...

I've been off TRT for more than 6 months (on TRT for 7-8 years) and my male pattern baldness is unchanged. It’s all written in your genes, therefore you can’t really compare yourself to someone else. You could go on TRT and lose a lot of hair, lose little bit of hair or not progress any faster...

The standard of care for TRT being, 200 mg every 2-4 weeks. A lot of these men are poorly managed on therapy as it is. These protocols are known to increase chances of erythrocytosis (supraphysiological to hypogandal every 10-14 days) for these metabolically compromised men. These men are...

If we knew where your FT sits, I could make better recommendations. Not everyone needs FT at the top end. The problem may be the once weekly injections creates large fluctuations in hormone values. The first half of the week your hormones are higher compared to the latter half of the week...

This isn't advisable. LS/MS method.

It would be in your best interest to question everything your doctors tell you, especially when it has to do with your general health, which is not what doctors are taught in mainstream medical schools. Doctors are trained and educated in men's and women's diseases and manage those diseases with...

https://www.excelmale.com/threads/does-a-high-hematocrit-change-your-bloods-clotting-profile-high-altitude-vs-trt.30879/ https://www.excelmale.com/threads/stroke-related-mortality-at-different-altitudes-a-17-year-nationwide-population-based-analysis-from-ecuador.26723/

I can see your problem. You lack basic understanding of hematocrit and how it one of the benefits of TRT. Even slightly over the range is considered healthy, but somehow you convinced yourself it's unsafe. I have labs showing my hematocrit change 4% (55->51%) in a few hours, because I had...

No mention of FT at all. Since when is TT at 500 ng/dL considered low?

Please share lab results instead of saying RBC is high, then we can have a more productive conversation. Why do you think high red blood cells, hematocrit and hemoglobin is bad for you? TRT is likely pushing your ferritin down, the blood donations may not benefit you anymore.

You now may have a reason for low ferritin. Why are you donating blood? Donating blood will lower ferritin which then requires iron supplements which will increase the hemoglobin. You see the problem here?

Your ferritin levels are low and may or may not be a problem. Testosterone increases hemoglobin and hematocrit which uses up iron, ferritin is iron storage. Iron deficiency without anemia would see normal but bottomed out hemoglobin and low MCH, MCV, MCHC and high RDW. If you were to raise the...

Testosterone increases red blood cells, same as if you lived at high elevation. So basically if you go from sea level to Boulder, Colorado, the first thing that’s going happen is your testosterone is going to increase (above 4000 ft) and your hematocrit and hemoglobin are going to go up. If you...

Glenn Cunningham, the doctor that wrote the guidelines for hematocrit. Dr. Abraham Morgantaler, asked him both on stage and in person where did you come up with hematocrit 54% cut off? His answer was we actually don't have much data to say anything but we had to pick a number and it seemed like...

You misunderstand, I'm saying high hematocrit doesn't cause those issues. There are medical conditions, diseases that leads to high hematocrit (sleep apnea, polycythemia vera, COPD) and it's the disease NOT the high hematocrit that causes those issues. These diseases starve the body of oxygen...

Your doctor is flat out wrong and is operating outside his scope of medicine. The Traverse trial squashed the myth of testosterone related heart attack, blood clots, and strokes. The FDA is removing the black label warning from testosterone products...

https://www.excelmale.com/threads/oral-tu-offers-a-safe-and-effective-long-term-treatment-option-for-men-with-hypogonadism.26398/ https://www.excelmale.com/threads/my-experience-on-jatenzo-oral-trt-log.23595/

Seems like you would do better oral T, Jatenzo or Kyzatrex. The half-life is similar to gels only you don't have to worry about absorption issues or transferring Test to children. The clinical trials showing only a very small percentage of men experienced erythrocytosis. The recommended...

https://www.testosterone.org/free-testosterone-levels/ https://www.excelmale.com/threads/testosterone-level-how-low-is-too-low-health-consequences-of-low-testosterone.1719/ https://www.excelmale.com/threads/how-to-find-a-good-doctor-that-prescribes-trt.28412/

https://www.excelmale.com/threads/what-is-a-normal-blood-level-of-testosterone-what-do-guidelines-say.1395/

The Total T doesn't define testosterone deficiency, the FT is what truly matters. Your endo is operating outside his scope of medicine and just is ignorant on the topic of male sex hormones. This is quite common since it isn't taught in mainstream medicine schools. The endocrine society...

This is a bad sign, targeting a lab number rather than symptom resolution. FT should be targeted at the top of the ranges or higher. TT doesn't tell the whole story.

That's a ticket to divorced for me. The woman I'm courting now, 27 year age gap, hehe, I told her when I feel like the deal is one-sided, I'm gone! The man needs to lead, the woman follows and serves and allowing the woman to have that kind of power over her man is unacceptable. I'm putting...

Your wife took the vows lightly. She gave up a long time ago. I had a brother go 16 years without sex, then finally he cheated and moved on. He was miserable for those 16 years. She never cooked, cleaned or did any of those wife duties. She was a terrible wife. Sorry to say this but your wife...

Gels are known to increase DHT way more than with injections. DHT can be in 5000-8000 ranges in some cases on topicals while injections would see slightly out of ranges (100>) DHT can interfere with the prostate in aging men. I would highly recommend against using DHT blocker medicines!

I'm all natural. I was referring Jatenzo if someone needed TRT.

This is opposite to how my body responds. I need those big fluctuations over the course of hours rather than days. I have two labs showing am and pm natural levels. My early morning TT 438 ng/dL, FT 8.4 ng/dL and late afternoon TT 103 ng/dL, FT 1.89. This is with a 33-37 SHBG level.

I'll bet it has something to do with being a daily pincushion for life. There's always Kyzatrex.

Half-life is the time it takes for half the medicine to decline to 50% and the trough is your lowest hormone level before you next dose.