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Cessation of TRT a good idea for me?
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<blockquote data-quote="slicktop" data-source="post: 165257" data-attributes="member: 39800"><p>I'm definitely NOT recommending going off the AI. Not now at least. I'd try adding the DIM (it's natural, not gonna hurt a damn thing) and see if that helps you as it did me. As to your question regarding the IM vs the subq, it could be that your body prefers those higher levels, and the quick spike it got from IM worked for you. I'm also not used to those free T ranges you posted; the LabCorp tests I do range from 6.8-21.5 pg/ml, and I stay above 20, my total T is around ~1060. This is just such an intricate thing and varies so much from person to person, I get worried about giving advice, but I'd do daily, low dose subq if getting a full thyroid panel is out of the question for right now. rT3 and IGF-1 levels would go a LONG way in giving you some additional ideas, though. Hell, you could be pre-diabetic. In your situation, right now you're trying to solve a puzzle with 75% of the pieces.</p><p></p><p>Defy does not bill insurance directly, but there's success stories out there with people who have gotten the paperwork from Defy and filled it with their insurance company. I'm OOP with an HSA personally. They'd need a recent physical, and while they do accept recent enough blood work (I don't know the time frame) of existing TRT patients to get them started at Defy, you don't have a full thyroid panel anyway so there's not really an advantage in doing partial blood work. They will NOT require you to come off TRT to get fresh bloodwork to then start again. If you make a wrong turn on a road trip, you course correct- you don't go home and start over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slicktop, post: 165257, member: 39800"] I'm definitely NOT recommending going off the AI. Not now at least. I'd try adding the DIM (it's natural, not gonna hurt a damn thing) and see if that helps you as it did me. As to your question regarding the IM vs the subq, it could be that your body prefers those higher levels, and the quick spike it got from IM worked for you. I'm also not used to those free T ranges you posted; the LabCorp tests I do range from 6.8-21.5 pg/ml, and I stay above 20, my total T is around ~1060. This is just such an intricate thing and varies so much from person to person, I get worried about giving advice, but I'd do daily, low dose subq if getting a full thyroid panel is out of the question for right now. rT3 and IGF-1 levels would go a LONG way in giving you some additional ideas, though. Hell, you could be pre-diabetic. In your situation, right now you're trying to solve a puzzle with 75% of the pieces. Defy does not bill insurance directly, but there's success stories out there with people who have gotten the paperwork from Defy and filled it with their insurance company. I'm OOP with an HSA personally. They'd need a recent physical, and while they do accept recent enough blood work (I don't know the time frame) of existing TRT patients to get them started at Defy, you don't have a full thyroid panel anyway so there's not really an advantage in doing partial blood work. They will NOT require you to come off TRT to get fresh bloodwork to then start again. If you make a wrong turn on a road trip, you course correct- you don't go home and start over. [/QUOTE]
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