brandonleeh
New Member
Hi Everyone,
This is my first post on here, just wanted to give an overview of my background and history with ED and no libido.
I'm 45 and have suffered on and off with ED for around 25 years, my low testosterone was flagged up back in my mid 20,s but as it was just within range bugger all was done about it.
After many years of trying this and that I settled on self administrating trt due to no NHS doctors being capable of helping.
Started in June 2025, daily subq injections of test cyp, started at 10mg with 250iu HCG EOD.
Had blood work done every 8 weeks and assessed symptoms.
I've gradually over several months worked up to 17mg per day, which was the first dose after 8 weeks that gave symptoms relief, morning erections started and things started to feel normalish.
Here's the blood work for this dose
Testosterone 34.9nmol
Oestrogen 284. Pmol
Prolactin 262
Free test 0.935
Shbg 21.1
Dhea 6.3
Due to oestrogen and testosterone being out of range I reduced to 15mg per day
And all the morning wood went away and I feel flat as hell.
Blood work now looks like this
Testosterone 28.5 nmol
Oestrogen. 236pmol
Prolactin 260
Shbg 20.9
Dhea 6.3
Iron 36ug/l
Haemocrit 0.501
Red blood cell count 5.61 (4.5-6.5)
Haemoglobin 36mmol
So the question is, do I stay at 15mg and work on reducing oestrogen and potentially start giving blood even though irons a bit low?
It's frustrating that 17mg per day felt great but would only exacerbate issues above
Sorry thats a lot to read
This is my first post on here, just wanted to give an overview of my background and history with ED and no libido.
I'm 45 and have suffered on and off with ED for around 25 years, my low testosterone was flagged up back in my mid 20,s but as it was just within range bugger all was done about it.
After many years of trying this and that I settled on self administrating trt due to no NHS doctors being capable of helping.
Started in June 2025, daily subq injections of test cyp, started at 10mg with 250iu HCG EOD.
Had blood work done every 8 weeks and assessed symptoms.
I've gradually over several months worked up to 17mg per day, which was the first dose after 8 weeks that gave symptoms relief, morning erections started and things started to feel normalish.
Here's the blood work for this dose
Testosterone 34.9nmol
Oestrogen 284. Pmol
Prolactin 262
Free test 0.935
Shbg 21.1
Dhea 6.3
Due to oestrogen and testosterone being out of range I reduced to 15mg per day
And all the morning wood went away and I feel flat as hell.
Blood work now looks like this
Testosterone 28.5 nmol
Oestrogen. 236pmol
Prolactin 260
Shbg 20.9
Dhea 6.3
Iron 36ug/l
Haemocrit 0.501
Red blood cell count 5.61 (4.5-6.5)
Haemoglobin 36mmol
So the question is, do I stay at 15mg and work on reducing oestrogen and potentially start giving blood even though irons a bit low?
It's frustrating that 17mg per day felt great but would only exacerbate issues above
Sorry thats a lot to read
