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Testosterone Side Effect Management
Personal experiences with both HCG Monotherapy and TRT?
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<blockquote data-quote="newguy128" data-source="post: 73658" data-attributes="member: 14517"><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Meant to reply, but got consumed with life details. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">** Do you not have any insurance (ACA)/medicare/medicaid?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">R. Nope, talking to a neighbor it just seemed to be way too much work and paper shuffling just to get a very small discount out of it all, just didn't appear to be worthwhile?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Some threads on here start with a guy having “symptoms” and the next thing you know they’re on 200mg of T and 200mg on nandrolone a week. These are not therapeutic dosages.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">R. True. More of a low-dose cycle. But sometimes I wonder how old these posters are? Myself I am 70 and feel like it most of the time even on low-dose TRT. I have several soft tissue injuries that just don't want to heal even using peptides like TB-4. So I myself wonder if anabolics like Deca can heal soft tissue or tendon issues? Which a lot of people and studies have eluded/concluded that Deca can heal these type of injuries. So maybe its a combo of them trying to heal these type injuries and maybe gain some muscle at the same time as an extra benefit.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If I felt confident that using Deca for several weeks would heal my soft tissue injuries I would consider it for that reason alone. Of course the muscle building attributes are and added benefit. 200mg a week is a fairly low dose. So it could be a valid reason why some may want to combine the two. Bodybuilding doses would be a lot higher 400-600mgs of each a week or 800-1200mgs a week and sometimes more! </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">My VA-PC Doc refused to do my labs recently that my TRT clinic requested. Which my VA-PC had done several times previously with no problem. He's mad at me because he didn't understand my lows/highs in my prior labs. Even tho I explained it all w/notes on my labs as to why they were high or low. ie; My test was high because I was using Clomid and then later HCG. Or my estrogen was a bit high so I used an AI to bring it down. This is all off label no-no stuff to the VA. They just don't understand? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So my VA-PC wanted me to stop doing all meds and supps for a month and then call back in a month to set a lab appointment and then go see a VA Endo for evaluation. This was about the same time I was ready to go on TRT and had spent my own cash on labs and a appointment with my TRT clinic to discuss all that. So I didn't stop all meds/supps and didn't see their Endo, so my VA-PC is mad at me!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">All I wanted from the VA was a script for Metformin for my borderline diabetic A1a levels. But they wanted me to stop all meds/supps for a month and do labs, then schedule an appointment with their Endo? When I/they had already done an A1a lab previously that showed I was borderline diabetic? Made no sense to me? So I had to pay my TRT clinic to write me a Metformin script. TF?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So waiting on my labs to see if I can up my TRT dose a bit. The only thing I have noticed changing with my TRT is a deepening of my vocal chords, that's about it? I don't feel any increase in energy, physically or mentally, if anything I feel less energy, sleep more or over sleep and have a difficult time waking up, just takes so long to wake up<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="newguy128, post: 73658, member: 14517"] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Meant to reply, but got consumed with life details. ** Do you not have any insurance (ACA)/medicare/medicaid? R. Nope, talking to a neighbor it just seemed to be way too much work and paper shuffling just to get a very small discount out of it all, just didn't appear to be worthwhile? [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Some threads on here start with a guy having “symptoms” and the next thing you know they’re on 200mg of T and 200mg on nandrolone a week. These are not therapeutic dosages. R. True. More of a low-dose cycle. But sometimes I wonder how old these posters are? Myself I am 70 and feel like it most of the time even on low-dose TRT. I have several soft tissue injuries that just don't want to heal even using peptides like TB-4. So I myself wonder if anabolics like Deca can heal soft tissue or tendon issues? Which a lot of people and studies have eluded/concluded that Deca can heal these type of injuries. So maybe its a combo of them trying to heal these type injuries and maybe gain some muscle at the same time as an extra benefit. If I felt confident that using Deca for several weeks would heal my soft tissue injuries I would consider it for that reason alone. Of course the muscle building attributes are and added benefit. 200mg a week is a fairly low dose. So it could be a valid reason why some may want to combine the two. Bodybuilding doses would be a lot higher 400-600mgs of each a week or 800-1200mgs a week and sometimes more! My VA-PC Doc refused to do my labs recently that my TRT clinic requested. Which my VA-PC had done several times previously with no problem. He's mad at me because he didn't understand my lows/highs in my prior labs. Even tho I explained it all w/notes on my labs as to why they were high or low. ie; My test was high because I was using Clomid and then later HCG. Or my estrogen was a bit high so I used an AI to bring it down. This is all off label no-no stuff to the VA. They just don't understand? So my VA-PC wanted me to stop doing all meds and supps for a month and then call back in a month to set a lab appointment and then go see a VA Endo for evaluation. This was about the same time I was ready to go on TRT and had spent my own cash on labs and a appointment with my TRT clinic to discuss all that. So I didn't stop all meds/supps and didn't see their Endo, so my VA-PC is mad at me!:mad: All I wanted from the VA was a script for Metformin for my borderline diabetic A1a levels. But they wanted me to stop all meds/supps for a month and do labs, then schedule an appointment with their Endo? When I/they had already done an A1a lab previously that showed I was borderline diabetic? Made no sense to me? So I had to pay my TRT clinic to write me a Metformin script. TF? So waiting on my labs to see if I can up my TRT dose a bit. The only thing I have noticed changing with my TRT is a deepening of my vocal chords, that's about it? I don't feel any increase in energy, physically or mentally, if anything I feel less energy, sleep more or over sleep and have a difficult time waking up, just takes so long to wake up:(.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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