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Little advice for cessation of trt
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<blockquote data-quote="madman" data-source="post: 189793" data-attributes="member: 13851"><p>Your reply to my earlier post:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">and therein lies the rub. for me at least. due to relatively high shgb (even after starting trt it only dropped to the low-mid 40s) in order to get relief from the symptoms I had I have to pump my testosterone so high my dht and psa goes with it. Off to the races with the loss of head hair, growth of back hair, and most disturbingly bph symptoms. Thats become intolerable. I considered finasteride which would undoubtedly arrest the hairloss, limit the bodyhair, and probably shrink the prostate.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Problem is that further binds me to a pharmacy. Thats probably the direction id head if it werent for the finasteride side effects of libido/erectile dysfunction scaring me away completely. Basically petrified considering those were two major motivators in starting trt to begin with. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><u>due to relatively high shgb (even after starting trt it only dropped to the low-mid 40s) in order to get relief from the symptoms I had I have to pump my testosterone so high my dht and psa goes with it. Off to the races with the loss of head hair, growth of back hair, and most disturbingly bph symptoms. Thats become intolerable. I considered finasteride which would undoubtedly arrest the hairloss, limit the bodyhair, and probably shrink the prostate</u>.</span></p><p></p><p>Here is the main issue with this as you stated pre-trt your SHBG was high and on trt it hovers in the low 40s while also stating that you have to pump your T levels up (1000-1100 ng/dL) to experience relief/improvement of low T symptoms and the main drawback is the side-effects you have experienced which is a downer, to say the least.</p><p></p><p>All said and done you keep going on about having to run higher TT levels due to highish SHBG in order to experience the beneficial effects and although TT is important to know FT is what truly matters as it is the active unbound fraction of testosterone responsible for the positive effects.</p><p></p><p>We have absolutely no idea where your FT levels sit on such protocol (dose T/injection frequency) let alone if it was even tested using an accurate assay such as the gold standard Equilibrium Dialysis or Ultrafiltration.</p><p></p><p>Unless you have had such done and let us know where your FT level truly sits then we are just shooting in the dark here!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="madman, post: 189793, member: 13851"] Your reply to my earlier post: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]and therein lies the rub. for me at least. due to relatively high shgb (even after starting trt it only dropped to the low-mid 40s) in order to get relief from the symptoms I had I have to pump my testosterone so high my dht and psa goes with it. Off to the races with the loss of head hair, growth of back hair, and most disturbingly bph symptoms. Thats become intolerable. I considered finasteride which would undoubtedly arrest the hairloss, limit the bodyhair, and probably shrink the prostate. Problem is that further binds me to a pharmacy. Thats probably the direction id head if it werent for the finasteride side effects of libido/erectile dysfunction scaring me away completely. Basically petrified considering those were two major motivators in starting trt to begin with. [U]due to relatively high shgb (even after starting trt it only dropped to the low-mid 40s) in order to get relief from the symptoms I had I have to pump my testosterone so high my dht and psa goes with it. Off to the races with the loss of head hair, growth of back hair, and most disturbingly bph symptoms. Thats become intolerable. I considered finasteride which would undoubtedly arrest the hairloss, limit the bodyhair, and probably shrink the prostate[/U].[/COLOR] Here is the main issue with this as you stated pre-trt your SHBG was high and on trt it hovers in the low 40s while also stating that you have to pump your T levels up (1000-1100 ng/dL) to experience relief/improvement of low T symptoms and the main drawback is the side-effects you have experienced which is a downer, to say the least. All said and done you keep going on about having to run higher TT levels due to highish SHBG in order to experience the beneficial effects and although TT is important to know FT is what truly matters as it is the active unbound fraction of testosterone responsible for the positive effects. We have absolutely no idea where your FT levels sit on such protocol (dose T/injection frequency) let alone if it was even tested using an accurate assay such as the gold standard Equilibrium Dialysis or Ultrafiltration. Unless you have had such done and let us know where your FT level truly sits then we are just shooting in the dark here! [/QUOTE]
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