My protocol managing hct and libido

M.J

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Not sure if I shared this but I have been on this for years:

Protocol:
18mg sustanon EOD
FSH 75 EOD
HCG 500 EOD

Also I use Wellbutrin 150 lx (from time to time) although affects your sleep a bit but the benefits and extreme pleasure I get when climax happens equals a bomb. I wrote a post about this before.


Hemoglobin and hct :
I aim for one donation only every 6 month my hemoglobin used to move between 16 and 17
Hct around 49

For libido boosts:

Every 3 weeks I stop hcg and I get a honeymoon period :) I have been testing and doing this for years to a level that I time it now for special occasions even. I only stop hcg.

Having said that my performance outside honey moon period varies but of course not as good. If you think about it one week every month with super performance not bad :).


Currently I stopped everything and taking clomid to lower my hemoglobin so it will be between 14 and 15 instead my current high range.

Also ferritin jumped immediately when I stopped before it was between 10 and 30 now it’s around 50. Because I was heavily donating.

I am hoping this restart keep me in a perfect blood and ferritin ranges considering my every 6 month blood donation.

I hav never sone such restart and my levels have heavily affected due to wrong protocols/ high testosterone injection and frequent blood donations.


Hope it helps
 
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For libido boosts:

Every 3 weeks I stop hcg and I get a honeymoon period :) I have been testing and doing this for years to a level that I time it now for special occasions even. I only stop hcg.
I seem to be having better success with hCG producing libido when I take it randomly / sporadically rather than consistently. Like 250 iu taken here and there seems to produce much better results than the 150 iu daily protocol did (15 mg test cyp daily in both cases). I'm starting to think it might be the changes that produce libido, and it doesn't necessarily matter whether that change is up or down, as long as it isn't remaining static. Bixt used to talk about this all the time before he was run off the forum.

If that's true, the wild swings produced by the common 500 iu hCG twice weekly protocol might be a feature and not a bug when it comes to libido.
 
Good to see update from you MJ. Some of your previous posts about protocol change still resonate with me because the only times I've gotten flashes of libido on TRT were from dose changes (or when stopping TRT).
The one recent exception was libido from low dose no tester T, in this case water-based Suspension. Unfortunately, I had to stop that experiment due to a bizarre systemic reaction to that product.

I have incorporating HCG recently, but am taking it slowly.
 
Good to see update from you MJ. Some of your previous posts about protocol change still resonate with me because the only times I've gotten flashes of libido on TRT were from dose changes (or when stopping TRT).

I have incorporating HCG recently, but am taking it slowly.
Based on this history of responding better to changes, I would guess you will have better libido results with less frequent hCG. What are you doing with hCG currently?
 

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