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Empower vs Pregnyl HCG
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<blockquote data-quote="JRos895" data-source="post: 221075" data-attributes="member: 43163"><p>I did not previously go through this, and am happy to share.</p><p></p><p>I’m in my mid twenties and I’ve always been very concerned about fertility, especially since my baseline LH/FSH (with no HRT of any sort ever until that baseline test) was near zero.</p><p></p><p>I originally decided to go with T+HCG (1000iu) a week. Given my concerns about fertility, I did a semen analysis on this protocol, which ultimately came back very poor. This is likely because I was likely infertile in the first place from the low LH/FSH at baseline (or perhaps because the Empower HCG I was using as the T adjunct was weak…?)</p><p></p><p>An often overlooked facet of the Lipshultz T+HCG study and protocol is that low dose HCG may often <strong>maintain </strong>semen parameters, but may not <strong>induce </strong>fertility when one is infertile in the first place. Higher doses of HCG are often needed to induce spermatogenesis for secondary hypo infertile men. I often hear people saying that there’s no benefit to HCG Mono over T+HCG since both are suppressive but that’s absolutely not true if you’re trying to induce fertility.</p><p></p><p>Thus, the reason I went onto HCG mono was two fold: (1) to hopefully induce my fertility so I can freeze sperm right away if my semen parameters increase and (2) to hopefully induce my fertility so that if I switch to the low dose HCG +T protocol (which I probably will do), the protocol may successfully maintain the fertility once induced.</p><p></p><p>All in all, I don’t expect to be on the HCG mono long term and am using it as a short term fertility strategy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRos895, post: 221075, member: 43163"] I did not previously go through this, and am happy to share. I’m in my mid twenties and I’ve always been very concerned about fertility, especially since my baseline LH/FSH (with no HRT of any sort ever until that baseline test) was near zero. I originally decided to go with T+HCG (1000iu) a week. Given my concerns about fertility, I did a semen analysis on this protocol, which ultimately came back very poor. This is likely because I was likely infertile in the first place from the low LH/FSH at baseline (or perhaps because the Empower HCG I was using as the T adjunct was weak…?) An often overlooked facet of the Lipshultz T+HCG study and protocol is that low dose HCG may often [B]maintain [/B]semen parameters, but may not [B]induce [/B]fertility when one is infertile in the first place. Higher doses of HCG are often needed to induce spermatogenesis for secondary hypo infertile men. I often hear people saying that there’s no benefit to HCG Mono over T+HCG since both are suppressive but that’s absolutely not true if you’re trying to induce fertility. Thus, the reason I went onto HCG mono was two fold: (1) to hopefully induce my fertility so I can freeze sperm right away if my semen parameters increase and (2) to hopefully induce my fertility so that if I switch to the low dose HCG +T protocol (which I probably will do), the protocol may successfully maintain the fertility once induced. All in all, I don’t expect to be on the HCG mono long term and am using it as a short term fertility strategy. [/QUOTE]
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