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I like to keep things simple, so I don't take HCG, only the T. It's been about a year now and I've had about 20% testicle shrinkage - they're fine, you don't really notice it. But the tighter scrotum bugs me a bit; your point about the body treating them differently because they've shut down...

While I would never have mentioned it otherwise, the nature of this email addresses one negative aspect of my T therapy that I've noticed. Having been on TE for a year, most results are positive, but one thing that I don't like is that my scrotum is pulled much tighter to my body (like when I...

I've been on TE for about a year; I wanted to keep things simple so I didn't take anything else. I don't care about fertility either, I'm 69 now. Penis doesn't shrink. Testicles are smaller, but not by a big amount, maybe 20% smaller. Maybe they'll shrink further, but right now I'm OK with...

Nelson, thanks for the responses above. When you say I could be prone to bruising, are you referring to discolorization the size of a nickel or dime . . . or the kind of darkening effect that I saw on images when I input "penile hematoma" - which is truly shocking. Some of the pics are of...

Hey guys - I'm 69 and have been on TE for about a year, love it. I had a TIA in December and was recently put on a blood thinner / anti-coagulant being 5 mg Apixaban (Eliquis) twice a day, permanently. I saw a urologist a few days ago about beginning Trimix. There's a $300 fee payable before...

Some men do well on lower doses of T; I'm one of them. I'm 69; have been on T about a year and I've experimented with dosages of 60mg/wk to 84mg/wk. I inject every four days and currently am taking 9.5 mg/day or 66.5 mg/wk. At the higher dose, my hematocrit also reached 52 . . . and I had a...

I just picked up a new vial of Hikma enanthate a few days ago on Feb. 8. Some larger drug chains will likely have enough in inventory to tide them over without running short.

Yes, TestTube, I'll do that, or something like that. I've taken two 5mgs so far, maybe go to 10 tomorrow but then stay there a month and reassess. Thankfully, no problems with hematocrit and blood pressure. The blood sugar is a bit higher, I'll watch it. Interesting comment on the weights...

TestTube, I'm thrilled that you're sympathetic to my suggestions, I was getting ready to get flamed from many sides. I'm tried many alternative treatments in my life, with only limited success. As I've grown older I've watched many of my friends and others who have had to choose what treatments...

These different diet plans come and go. Esselstyn reminds me of Dean Ornish, someone I heavily followed around 2005, likely to my detriment. At that time I suffered a lot of angina, and found that I felt better on the Ornish diet. The belief and hope was that you could reverse heart disease...

Sammy, I appreciate the sentiment; much of what you say is true. In the past decades I definitely cleaned things up, but I've still got a ways to go. I'm trying to set a plan for the coming year so that I can fix things. I'll be changing a lot of my lifestyle; the medicines I take will only...

I'm aware of the niacin paradox being that excess inflammation may neutralize the benefits of lipid improvements that niacin can provide, resulting in no reduction in heart attack or stroke risk. However, I was and am continually drawn to niacin for the great reduction that it provides for my...

I've been taking niacin for about 22 years (I think) and up until a few years ago I probably averaged about 3.25 gms/day, which is 6 1/2 500mg tabs per day. At certain points I was up to 4 gms day. Recently, the last few years, I let it slide to 2.25 gms daily; even then my numbers were still...

Mountain Man, I see eye to eye with you on a lot of these things. You're fortunate that you have excellent health and are not tied to these damn drugs that so many older people "need" to take. I've always resisted taking anything, and IF I had to take it then I would take much smaller doses...

Hey Seagal, I'll look into the K2. I don't know exactly how the plaques were visualized, I had a battery of tests including CT scans, MRI and ultrasounds. Niacin always improved my blood lipids, quite dramatically. LDL (100 and under) and Tryglicerides went way down, HDL (55 and over) went up...

Mountain Man, what an interesting post! Yes, the thread has devolved, it was all in the title "Can an older man build muscle while taking statins". Are you taking statins, or are you just talking about an older man building muscle? Secondly, I'm pretty sure your idea of muscle and mass is...

I tuned into some of his vids, he's the one that suggests cutting out wheat and wheat products in order to avoid heart and stroke issues. Yes, he seems genuine and passionate about his argument. But this is the problem that I encountered many years ago when researching heart disease - namely...

Thanks for the link, I watched the vid with great interest. I'm in the Canadian health care system, I'm not sure of dealing with the Cleveland Heart Clinic, or in fact dealing with anything right now, my head is still working overtime. I remember when heart disease first reared it's ugly head...

Hi everyone, I'm a 68 year old on Testosterone Enanthate for one year, love the results on body composition. I've had heart issues in the past, with a successful bypass 13 years ago. I've always resisted statins, and have done well taking niacin the last 20+ years. I was doing really well...

Your PCP wasted your time with the 50 mg weekly protocol and I wouldn't take your lack of response to that as indicative of what TRT can do for you. I would get back on the 100 mg weekly, see how that treats you longer-term and adjust from there. I'm not sure why you would make that statement...

Of course you should discuss something like niacin use with your doctor. In my case, having used niacin for over two decades, I have never met a doctor that knew much about niacin; I have the distinct impression that they've all been schooled (brain-washed) in statin use and would prefer not to...

I started taking niacin around the age of 43, because it was determined that I had severe heart disease. All my blood lipids improved, and my Lp(a) came down. I went another 13 years before I got a bypass. I've remained reasonably well to this day, and I'll be 69 this year.

Yes, the form I take is "Vitamin B3, nicotinic acid"

"Is nicotinic acid better than vitamin b niacinimide?" Better for what? If you're talking about the effect on blood lipids, then no, niacinimide will not have the same positive effect as B3 niacin. You need the niacin that gives you the flush; the "no flush" niacins will do nothing for your...

The fact that testosterone levels are of secondary importance in ED mirrors my experience. I developed heart disease early at the age of 42 (I'm 68 now) and it always made sense to me that not only my heart but other areas of my body could also have compromised blood flow. Nitroglycerine for...

I'm 68 and started T a year ago with an endocrinologist, somebody who should know about Tth, but didn't. Things didn't work out until I started reading this board in earnest. I found the best for me was to educate myself on what to do and then hopefully find a doctor to prescribe the T for me...

"According to the article it lowers LDL cholesterol which we all know is false." Vince, perhaps this is a typo or an error in what you meant to say? Niacin dramatically lowered my LDL, better than a statin that I took prior to finding niacin. The reasoning that I would choose niacin again...

To me niacin is a godsend; I take therapeutic doses that typically range from 2500 to 3500mg per day. I take the real niacin, NOT the no-flush type, which doesn't work at all. I buy it at the vitamin store. I take the regular immediate release, not the timed release product. I got a flush...

I'm one of these layperson guys that does well on a smaller dose, probably around 70mg/week. That puts me in the Cataceous camp of thinking. One concern I've always had is that, acknowledging the ideal of 4-8 mg/day that young men produce and use, it seems likely to me that our pathway of T...

Thank you Ribeye, I very much appreciate your input and will be vigilant in all my actions.

I just came from the clinic. They never even mentioned my T use or anything about hemoglobin or hematocrit. They do think it was a TIA caused by a blood clot, but they can't tell me whether it was a newly formed clot, or if it was an existing piece of plaque that broke off and migrated to the...