I normally do not post to forums as a physician for a variety of legal and ethical reasons , but this site is insightful and supportive and I think has excellent members with a great deal of anecdotal information that should be utilized by docs . Depending on the patient’s issues and depending on the their sensitivity to specific receptors sites as well as Hormonal feedback mechanisms , adrenal/ thyroid function , comorbid illness, overall pituitary function / defect , medications used / doses, sleep architecture, TRT can be extremely difficult to stop abruptly at even at low doses. Tapering doses over time can slowly bring a a person to a steady state except for when TRT has affected other tissues/ organs that may have developed hypo/ hyperplasia changes in tissue structure and function. So even if a patient can get back to pre TRT levels , hormone use may have caused growth or shrinkage of other tissue as a secondary affect which now function differently and can affect the person as a whole no matter what pre TRT hormonal levels were- very complicated for all of us .
