Regarding Clomid, it is the consensus of many experts, and it certainly was my experience, that Clomid doesn't do much, if anything, positive, and only has negative side effects for men taking exogenous testosterone.
I used Clomid at 50mg per day because my fertility doctor insisted on it, and he initially refused to prescribe HMG or FSH. But after seven months on Clomid and HCG (and Proviron), my sperm count had only come up from zero to 7 million/ml.
All that Clomid seemed to do for me was make me moody, miserable, and increase my SHBG to ridiculously high levels (112 nmol/L at the highest point measured, as compared to 40 on my latest blood test.)
Once I added in HMG, and later FSH, my sperm count rapidly rose over the next few months to 31 million/ml at the time of our IVF procedure. I'm sure that it would have continued to rise much higher, but that was all we needed. My sperm successfully fertilized my wife's eggs, and gave us 3 embryos that survived to become 5-day blastocysts, of which one is our healthy baby girl now growing bigger every day in my wife's uterus, and due to be born in November.
So if I had to do it all over again, I would have stayed away from the Clomid, and stuck to Test + HCG + HMG, or Test + HCG + FSH. My advice to you is to do the same. And if your fertility doctor refuses to prescribe HMG or FSH, find a new doctor. Too many doctors are still stuck in the past, using antiquated methods, when there is plenty of research out there showing that newer methods work better.
