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Trying to correlate preliminary animal and cell culture work, where the doses of AI being used would be very high, to humans on TRT is ridiculous. Beyond that, the study has no links to the primary articles being discussed and Brann himself only had a handful of pubs on pubmed concerning E2. At...

Update: Discount labs combined my two orders and eliminated one of the lab draw fees. However, in the confusion, SHBG and E2 sensitive were left out. I placed an order today for both and again the E2 sensitive was left out. So I thus far, I have had to place 4 orders and will have to make 2...

No worries. I am sure they will figure it out. It's a great service, but this has been an annoyance.

Hi Mark, Thanks for the welcome, though I am not really new. Been here a while, I just have not been on here for a while. Since the change in format anyway. The issues I have are between when I order and when I get the script (the pdf printout to hand to the labcorp people). It's as though...

I was wondering if anyone has had problems with discount labs? I place all my items in my cart, and I place my order. Then when I get my script for the blood draw tests are missing. When I log back into my cart, the script and cart match. This has happened to me twice. I don't know if it's an...

Another concern I have with hCG is it's ability to reduce immune function. Very little information in males....

I feel your pain Blackhawk - I am in the same boat.

A recent study reports that daily subq injections do not appear to result in increased Hct or Hgb... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c425/5344938573281d74dec4a8a0ed674ad4f0c7.pdf

I am just interested in your experiences with him. I am considering switching providers.

Pi = Phosphate...

Nice summary Nelson. A more complete panel with Ca2+, Pi, Vitamin D, Calcitonin, and FGF23 would be very cool. Although, the FGF23 would be very expensive.

Double RBC - One thing I never here discussed is that pushing your blood through plastic results in an inflammatory response. I don't want that blood being returned to my body as I don't want the subsequent inflammatory response. The more common objection, is that you can't donate as often....

I found some older studies showing a similar effect on heart rate. I'd be interested to see if this levels for you in the next few days.

Thanks for your input CoastWatcher. Overall things are better. Greater sex drive, greater strength, less anxiety. Just need to clean up the diet and up the physical activity to get my lipids under control.

One theory has suggested that L-Carnatine is antagonist to peripheral thyroid hormone action. Are you hypo/hyper thyroid or subclinical in either direction?

I am on the following protocol from Defy for my low T. Been on it 12 weeks. Test Cyp - 140 mg/wk (70 mg every 3.5 days) HCG - 800 IU's/wk (400 IU every 3.5 days) Anastrozole - 0.50 mg/wk (0.25 mg every 3.5 days) Noticed my Hct was up. The nurse suggested therapeutic phlebotomy - but given the...

I never understand why population norms are provided. The population as a whole is largely obese, insulin resistant, inactive with a poor diet. The ranges for high's and low's should be determined by the healthy population, not the population as a whole. I can already here the stupidity come...

I use mine daily. Usually after my workout or after work. Start slow and limit the angle of inversion at first. The key is breathing and relaxing. I am not fully inverted very long - typically like 30 seconds or so where I focus on breathing deeply and relaxing. When I come up, I generally hang...

CoastWatcher, thank you. I have priced out the discount labs and they are much cheaper than paying out of pocket. I also don't have the lab card that others have referred to on here.

Just wondering what tips/tricks you guys have come up with to have labs drawn more affordably. I will have to get some follow up labs done in the next few weeks for my TRT.

Thanks Crocodome. I took a look at it. Do they require you to come in for injections? They state that they charge $60 for an injection. Seems insane.

BioFreeze is great, as is Penetrex. I'll second the foam rolling and raise a lacrosse ball for those tougher regions...

Melatonin. In my opinion less is more for sleep. I have used 1/4 of a 1mg tab with great success. The higher doses are for using metlatonin as an antioxidant - not for sleep. 500 mg of Mg2+ helps greatly. The final two things are utter darkness (blackout curtains) and cold.

I have only been on ~ 4 to 5 weeks.

Thanks Kafahmy. I am noticing it is worst on my trough day - not sure if that points to low T, or the effect of the arimidex. Right now erections and sex drive a great. But the downs - seem lower than I am used to. Very interesting to hear your experiences.

Was just checking into see if Kafahmy worked out this depression issue? I am noticing a similar thing on a similar protocol.

Yea - the anstrozole was a stupid addition. APS seems more reasonable.

Weird combo. One advantage is it has no known toxicity issues despite crossing the blood brain barrier. Wonder what the rationale was....

It may be. Usually though, if it doesn't make it into the muscle that oil is going to pool somewhere and cause an inflammatory reaction. I had that experience last week. Upper thigh injection, with dramatic pain above my knee.

Do yourself a favor and put it in the delt. Every injection I have had in the thigh with a 1/2" needle causes the same pain. Never have any pain in the delts....

Thank you Dr. Saya. I appreciate the input. I also appreciate the work that Dr. Calkins has done with me thus far.