Hey everyone I am new to TRT injections and am glad to have found these forums at the start of my protocol. In case you didn't see my original post, I was prescribed a high dose of 200mg injection once a week with 2mg anastrozole (1mg twice weekly) and 500iu HCG. I decided to pause the protocol until I can get the lab results to post on here.
Some other info, I'm in relatively good shape, 37 years old, do a calisthenics workout about 3 times a week, and mostly eat healthy all cooked meals and no fast food or candy, etc. Though I do drink soda at work. Some of the reasons for considering TRT was due to a waning energy level, longer recovery times from my workouts, and I generally feel unmotivated and/or experience some brain fog at certain times. And honestly one of the main concerns lately has been a weakening libido, which I'm hoping to fix too.
From what I've been reading here, there are all types of regimens and people vary as far as how much is needed to improve symptoms and how much causes side-effects, etc. I have a thin build, wirey and never had much luck gaining lots of muscle mass, though I am fairly cut have low visible body fat. Ideally I would like to benefit from muscle gains, but really I'm just looking for an overall quality of life improvement, improving mood and libido, and would like to try smaller doses that might let me get away with not needing an AI and maybe minimal HCG (to continue producing natural test).
Another question I haven't found an answer for on here yet. Do most of you do macro-cycles? As in testosterone injections for 5 months and then 1 month recovery/cleanse phase? Or is it common to do a continuous regimen and maintain levels consistently?
Some other info, I'm in relatively good shape, 37 years old, do a calisthenics workout about 3 times a week, and mostly eat healthy all cooked meals and no fast food or candy, etc. Though I do drink soda at work. Some of the reasons for considering TRT was due to a waning energy level, longer recovery times from my workouts, and I generally feel unmotivated and/or experience some brain fog at certain times. And honestly one of the main concerns lately has been a weakening libido, which I'm hoping to fix too.
From what I've been reading here, there are all types of regimens and people vary as far as how much is needed to improve symptoms and how much causes side-effects, etc. I have a thin build, wirey and never had much luck gaining lots of muscle mass, though I am fairly cut have low visible body fat. Ideally I would like to benefit from muscle gains, but really I'm just looking for an overall quality of life improvement, improving mood and libido, and would like to try smaller doses that might let me get away with not needing an AI and maybe minimal HCG (to continue producing natural test).
Another question I haven't found an answer for on here yet. Do most of you do macro-cycles? As in testosterone injections for 5 months and then 1 month recovery/cleanse phase? Or is it common to do a continuous regimen and maintain levels consistently?