I am new to the board, but not new to TRT. I am going to be 38 in a month and have been on TRT from 04/2013 - 02/2018, so I have been completely off of TRT for past few months. The time I have been on TRT I have felt pretty decent, but not like a fresh 20 year old.
Here is some background that lead me on the path of TRT. My body type has been Ectomorph from a kid up until my mid 20's and now it seems I can put on fat by just looking at food. In January 2006 when I was 25 I lost my girlfriend in a car accident. Then a few months later I suffered from Testicular Torsion. So long story short I always thought me not feeling good was because I was depressed from losing my girlfriend, but as the years went on I felt like I dealt with her passing, but still wasn't feeling right. Long story short is I found a local doctor who tested me and was willing to treat me.
Now am mostly looking for a place who specializes in TRT because my other doc would never order a sensitive e2 test, but I did get him to order it in a couple of my labs. Also, I have been researching lately and I think he has overlooked my thyroid and he said everything looks fine back then, but after doing a lot of research lately it really looks like my RT3 is high and maybe that is why I have never felt great while on TRT. The protocal he had me on Test C 50mg 2x per/week, 250IU HCG 3x per week from 2013-2015. I felt pretty decent, but he switched me to Test C 40mg 2x per/week, 250IU HCG 3x per week(2015-Current) because the e2 was high and it wasn't even the sensitive test.
I also want to ask I have been having horrible joint pains through the years in my wrist, shoulders, ankles, left knee, and even my lower back. I have seen specialist for my knee and all the MRI scans look normal and did a couple PRP treatments and that didn't help. I had another specialist look at my lower back pain and all the scans look normal, so I ended up doing a epidural steroid injection in my facet joint and my pain was gone for a full month and i felt awesome, but the pain came back. The doc recommended I try the radio frequency ablation and that had zero effect on the pain. Would any of these above mention joint pain be related to having higher than normal RT3?
Here are a couple labs from over the years. Does anyone see anything from my current labs I should be asking them in my first consult?
Here is my labs from 2013 pre TRT with Thyroid labs:
Here are labs from 05-01-14 a year into trt with Thyroid:
Here are current labs being off TRT for few months:
Here is some background that lead me on the path of TRT. My body type has been Ectomorph from a kid up until my mid 20's and now it seems I can put on fat by just looking at food. In January 2006 when I was 25 I lost my girlfriend in a car accident. Then a few months later I suffered from Testicular Torsion. So long story short I always thought me not feeling good was because I was depressed from losing my girlfriend, but as the years went on I felt like I dealt with her passing, but still wasn't feeling right. Long story short is I found a local doctor who tested me and was willing to treat me.
Now am mostly looking for a place who specializes in TRT because my other doc would never order a sensitive e2 test, but I did get him to order it in a couple of my labs. Also, I have been researching lately and I think he has overlooked my thyroid and he said everything looks fine back then, but after doing a lot of research lately it really looks like my RT3 is high and maybe that is why I have never felt great while on TRT. The protocal he had me on Test C 50mg 2x per/week, 250IU HCG 3x per week from 2013-2015. I felt pretty decent, but he switched me to Test C 40mg 2x per/week, 250IU HCG 3x per week(2015-Current) because the e2 was high and it wasn't even the sensitive test.
I also want to ask I have been having horrible joint pains through the years in my wrist, shoulders, ankles, left knee, and even my lower back. I have seen specialist for my knee and all the MRI scans look normal and did a couple PRP treatments and that didn't help. I had another specialist look at my lower back pain and all the scans look normal, so I ended up doing a epidural steroid injection in my facet joint and my pain was gone for a full month and i felt awesome, but the pain came back. The doc recommended I try the radio frequency ablation and that had zero effect on the pain. Would any of these above mention joint pain be related to having higher than normal RT3?
Here are a couple labs from over the years. Does anyone see anything from my current labs I should be asking them in my first consult?
Here is my labs from 2013 pre TRT with Thyroid labs:
Here are labs from 05-01-14 a year into trt with Thyroid:
Here are current labs being off TRT for few months:
