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I did try 150iu of FSH and felt bad, at first i was also doing mon-wed-fri, 500+75, after a short trial total T was 15nmol/l or 430ng/dl, shbg being quite low free testosterone was decent but i lacked libido among other things, E2 was almost low which is funny. My current stance is that using...

Yes, this is very basic and easy to understand, it only takes around 1000iu of hcg per week to have physiological levels of ITT, i doubt e2 induced infertility will be a problem on FSH. I am currently taking 500iu of hcg and 90iu FSH every 3,5 days. I wish i could have sustained it longer...

While recombinant FSH is not, at least in most parts of the world, if one can't afford a short run of it, i would question if having a baby is something one can afford. Also freezing sperm for 10 years will probably be more expensive. Not nearly all guys end up with good sperm on HCG only, and...

But it lasts longer, peak testosterone is achieved around 72hrs and it takes almost twice that for hcg to clear.

HMG does work, it's human derived menotropin that in addition to FSH contain also LH, but the half life for the LH component is very short so hcg should also be kept on board.

To each his own, after years of trial and error and bloodwork, i have come to the conclusion that 2000iu daily keeps me around 85nmol/l during winter months when no uvb radiation is available. Larger doses have always caused issues like anxiety and nausea. I despise people who never do or...

Do you mind sharing your exact protocol? Obviosly results may vary but it's always nice to know how someone gets results like this that many never do.

2000iu D per day is usually sufficient, +1 on the FSH, trying to revive sperm on HCG only is kind of outdated anyway, you only need a little bit of hcg to have some intratesticular testosterone with the FSH.

Hey i remember you legend, remind me if it was subq or IM? HCG was never in the picture if i remember correctly.

Have you ever measured through levels in the morning, assuming you only apply in the morning?

How about trying out a reduced dose of HCG, for example 500iu 3xwk, and dropping the AI, that e2 level is IMO low considering that your t-levels are so high, which leads me to believe a drop in hcg dose would still leave you with plenty of T, gonads definitely going strong with you. Maybe the AI...

then there are reports of some guys cruising on hcg mono on doses such as 250iu 3xweek, 500iu 2xweek. There are no studies validating the claim that hcg mono works only with higher doses, supraphysiological ITT was always required for fertility when rFSH was not used. Would be nice to have a...

Goals is wellbeing, libido and erections, steady state. If ITT is almost maintained on 250iu eod, and 25% more on 500iu eod, i don't know if even on monotherapy one should be going higher, the higher doses are probably just thought to be necessary for monotherapy due to being present in...

I wish Saya had chosen 250iu instead of the 150iu and included testosterone measurements. This data most are probably familiar with seems to indicate no need for more than e3.5d administration when it comes to maintaining testosterone with HCG alfa.(fig 3)...

That is what i would like to know, seems these two are the most common approaches found on the internet, the Saya study Nelson linked does not really make sense in the sense that so many use 250 mon-wed-fri, and many even use just 250 every 3,5 days. In my case there seems to be a loss of...

For me, dry eye sypmtoms always get better on testosterone, in my natural hypogonadal state i can hardly read after sauna.

Are you drinking coffee, i am not the only one who had a significant drop in BP after giving up coffee.

How did it go? It seems the natural daily fluctuation in young males tends to be something like 30%, with this gel the difference is way more, and also my own anecdotal expreriments say that endogenous production is not activated during 12-24hrs post testavan application.

I'm planning on trying out testavan gel soon, since studies claim it comes back to baseline after 12hrs, applied in the morning, there might be some endogenous activity during the night, at the very least large daily fluctuation in levels. Will take LH in the morning, who knows it might not be...

Yes it's absolutely wise to check both 4 hours after and 24 after to see if the pharmacology holds true. Those are averages anyway.

You're probably using androgel 1.62%? There is actually pharmacology claiming the levels with gels are not fluctuating as much as one would think. One exception is testavan gel that peaks fast. And then there is Testavan

After matching, 10,511 men who experienced an any increase in Hct after initiating TTh and an equal number of controls who did have an increase in Hct were included. Compared to controls who did not have an increase in Hct after starting TTh, the men who had an increase in subsequent Hct had a...

Excessive erythrocytosis compromises the blood-endothelium interface in erythropoietin-overexpressing mice https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1113/jphysiol.2011.209262

Did they measure only daily through with the gel in traverse study?

In other words 30-40mg twice a week Good point, also if enanthate is non-pharma you never know, most often you'd probably get less though.

Don't know if you are looking for encouragement or opinions but i say you are totally justified to have your needs met elsewhere after trying to resolve matters with her, for one she is not fullfilling her wifely duties, sex and at the very least intimacy is a big part of good health and...

Post #5...but yeah definitely needs to be emphasized when considering labwork.

Hmm, periodic as in every two weeks...almost sounds like 200mg enanthate or cypionate every 2 weeks :)

At one point i tried for a couple of months 60mg nebido weekly on glute fat, result was very low levels at through. Might be just me.

Nice write up, i'm actually pretty convinced by now that nebido is not what it is on paper, meaning the curve is not linear, each dose does leave a residue for much longer time than shorter esters, but the bulk of any dose peaks FAST, and comes down fast, in my case 6 days after 1000mg dose my...

I've also been using potassium enriched salt, obv i'm not getting those precious trace minerals, but hard to say if extra potassium is a bigger advantage, the invention of sodium salt was a big deal decades ago allegedly, a way to further reduce sodium intake after it had been figured out that...