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Your testosterone might’ve been a little on the low side. Enough to shut you down, but not enough to get you in an optimal range where you would feel better. Were you injecting 75mg once a week? Did you do labs when you were on the test e? Personally speaking, Clomid made my libido worse. Even...

I did as well but just found out it was for the 50,000iu vials. They have 12,000 in stock. You would think someone from Empower would’ve told me that the two times I called. Sorry for the confusion

That’s strange because I’ve been told that HCG is on back order at Empower since weeks ago. I even called this morning and was told the same

Updated protocol from wife’s IVF doctor (instead of urologist). Reduced HCG to 1500ius/3 times a week and increase Clomid to 50mg/day. I’m going to feel like shit

Yes. My testosterone just came back this past Monday at 1090 ng/dl, so the HCG must be doing its job in that sense. It has never dropped below 800 on HCG only. I’ve currently been on 25mg of Clomid for the past 5 weeks and am waiting to speak to the nurse to hear what the next step should be...

According to what I’ve researched on the board so far, HCG monotherapy can shut you down from producing FSH, a very important component to sperm production and quality like morphology which in the beginning was my only issue that this urology wanted to correct. I have been shut down since I...

Thanks for the responses so far, guys. One theory of my wife and I is that since people were putting off surgeries at that time, he was looking to make some money while business was slowed down in the middle of COVID. All avenues weren’t exhausted, the varicocele wasn’t painful and surgery...

Unfortunately they’ve been on backorder for HCG at least a month at Empower.

I always take Optimum ZMA before bed. Seems to help with sleep a little bit.

Hey, guys. Firstly, I’m not the kind of person whose first instinct is to sue a doctor if the results aren’t satisfactory because they are human after all, and I also don’t need the money. However, I’ll provide you a timeline of doctor visits, semen analysis results, medications, surgery, etc...

Is constipation a well-known side effect because I haven’t seen it mentioned much, but I’m on 25mg ED and have definitely noticed it as well. Libido is way down also.

I probably would’ve just stayed on the low dose clomid that the Dr originally had me on. My labs looked perfect on it but unfortunately I still had the side effects of low T.

From my personal experience with preserving fertility while on TRT dosed test and HCG for 3 years and never missing a dose, 500ius twice a week wasn’t enough to do the job for me. It kept my balls about 3/4 full cosmetically but lab work and advanced semen analysis said otherwise for fertility...

Ok, cool. I'm actually in FL

That's pretty interesting. I'd also like to know this.

Update: I called Defy right when they opened this morning and talked to Kelli. She was pretty helpful, and I also had her change my initial ground shipping to the express shipping. Ironically I received a refill reminder in my e-mail 2 hours later. They really need to set it up 4 weeks ahead of...

Lighten up, Francis. I figured placing my order online last week was proactive enough. As a first-time customer, I didn't know I had to hunt down prescription refills when I was promised follow-up labs and a doctor consultation 3 months after the last one. I wasn't aware the customer had to do...

I realize that this topic has been discussed before, and I'd like to first say that I've enjoyed my consultations with both Dr. Saya and Dr. Calkins. My only issue is that I'm in my 11th week of my therapy, and I have yet to receive any refill reminders or consultation reminders. I just loaded...

Thanks, Dr. Saya. It looks like it won't be necessary now. Thank you

Welp, I just received my fedex email and tracking number from Empower a minute ago haha. All is well now. Also, I paid for ground, but it says it's priority overnight. Maybe they're making up for the delay.

Thanks for the comments, guys. I can't believe I missed that thread. I apologize. Thanks for the heads up.

I recently had another great consultation with Dr. Calkins from Defy. We decided on Empower Pharmacy only for all medications. I'm usually a fairly patient person, but how long does it usually take for your orders to ship out? It's been 12 days since the consultation and order date, and it still...

Thanks for the link. I do realize this since I was always within the wide range for TSH with my PCP's lab results, yet I was feeling sluggish as hell. One night I was watching TV while laying down with my chin towards my chest, and I felt like something was cutting off my windpipe. I started...

I'm not home at the moment, but I believe it was .125mg EOD I'm on 112 mcg of levothyroxine and my last thyroid panel all came back within the ranges. I also feel like my body has been running on the warm side, so I don't think I'm feeling hypo.

I agree. I was pretty surprised especially because I wasn't feeling any of the positive effects of it.

That’s weird. It’s showing up on my screen. I’ll repost it.

That E of 17 was actually from before the clomid and AI. I'm not super lean, but in decent shape at around 6'1 200 lbs and 12-14% body fat with a balanced diet higher in protein and fiber. I'm not sure if that has much to do with it.

Given my age of 33, Clomid therapy at 12.5mg everyday w/ low dose anastrozole for 40 days was my first option. The lab work with the lower testosterone was my first results after dropping finasteride, supplementing with boron, vitamin D, and DHEA at 25mg. The DHEA makes me sleep like a baby. I...

I just saw this video the other day. Definitely interesting. I also started taking 10,000 IUs of D3 two days ago. I wonder how fast my hair would fall out with a combination of quitting finasteride and starting test

I started shedding a good amount of hair at the end of college and jumped on it soon after. Throughout the years, I never noticed any side effects while taking it other than it making me a little less horny. I figured that was just from lowering my DHT to really low levels. I'm starting to...

Below is also some bloodwork I had done 3 years ago when I felt like crap and then realized it was my thyroid. I was on year 7 of finasteride and the SHBG is on the high end of the range but still nowhere near where it is today at over 90.