Hi all very glad to have found this board. Long time listener first time caller.
Weeks later and Have a wicked side effect now of brain fog, “tightness” around my eyes, lack of focus and visibly hot face with red nose cheeks forehead and ears. Sometimes my arms or back has a slight burning sensation similar to nerve pain, very mild. It is legit terrible though not gonna lie.
Starting labs pre trt
Total test 300.
Shbg 25
Prolactin 8.2
Estradiol 19
Hcg: 0
LH: 1.9
All iron and ferritin normal.
CBC, CMP, LFT normal
Protocol below
Been on trt IM 100mg per week and hcg 500 units Twice weekly under urologist supervision.
Kickstarted with 300 mg IM week 1, 200 mg week after then 100 mg weekly after that and since. This led to eventual TT lab of 1200 as of yesterday after 6 weeks (not trough, 2dd after shot- I plan to retest trough in a few weeks now that I’m on weekly regimen).
During week 4, 2 days after an hcg (pregnyl) shot of 550 units, like 7 hours later my face was beet red and I was flat out uncomfortable, though I didn’t have a fever and blood pressure was 118-85. I also had what looked like hives in chest on Friday telling me was allergic.
Thst was by far the worst; I assumed an allergy to cottonseed oil or the preservative in the test, so I stopped cypionate and got enanthate which has different oil and preservative- held my hcg and test shot for a week and resumed with testE the week after.
Has been 3 weeks since initial feeling and the burning hasn’t stopped but has calmed.
It seems to be correlated with HCG as I dropped dose to 400 units, but still after shot last week, by evening I felt like ass and was hot as hell with flush and fatigue- though no fever but not as bad as 2 weeks earlier.
Got CBC last week which showing normal HGB HCT.
Got Labs drawn as I needed to know e2, done only 2 days after pin,
Total t 1200, e2 38. No high E sides like bloating or acne, but double what my ore trt e2 was.
Plan to skip hcg until this passes as I already ruled out cyp allergy, been on enanthate three weeks so allergy to test or oil vehicles is unlikely.
Would like to hear if others had HCG (pregnyl brand) sides like this. Have held Saturday dose and haven’t shot for 4 days still have mild sunburn feel Fatigue but it’s calming down. Plan to hold hcg till this passes and have doc visit.
Thanks all glad to have found this community.
Weeks later and Have a wicked side effect now of brain fog, “tightness” around my eyes, lack of focus and visibly hot face with red nose cheeks forehead and ears. Sometimes my arms or back has a slight burning sensation similar to nerve pain, very mild. It is legit terrible though not gonna lie.
Starting labs pre trt
Total test 300.
Shbg 25
Prolactin 8.2
Estradiol 19
Hcg: 0
LH: 1.9
All iron and ferritin normal.
CBC, CMP, LFT normal
Protocol below
Been on trt IM 100mg per week and hcg 500 units Twice weekly under urologist supervision.
Kickstarted with 300 mg IM week 1, 200 mg week after then 100 mg weekly after that and since. This led to eventual TT lab of 1200 as of yesterday after 6 weeks (not trough, 2dd after shot- I plan to retest trough in a few weeks now that I’m on weekly regimen).
During week 4, 2 days after an hcg (pregnyl) shot of 550 units, like 7 hours later my face was beet red and I was flat out uncomfortable, though I didn’t have a fever and blood pressure was 118-85. I also had what looked like hives in chest on Friday telling me was allergic.
Thst was by far the worst; I assumed an allergy to cottonseed oil or the preservative in the test, so I stopped cypionate and got enanthate which has different oil and preservative- held my hcg and test shot for a week and resumed with testE the week after.
Has been 3 weeks since initial feeling and the burning hasn’t stopped but has calmed.
It seems to be correlated with HCG as I dropped dose to 400 units, but still after shot last week, by evening I felt like ass and was hot as hell with flush and fatigue- though no fever but not as bad as 2 weeks earlier.
Got CBC last week which showing normal HGB HCT.
Got Labs drawn as I needed to know e2, done only 2 days after pin,
Total t 1200, e2 38. No high E sides like bloating or acne, but double what my ore trt e2 was.
Plan to skip hcg until this passes as I already ruled out cyp allergy, been on enanthate three weeks so allergy to test or oil vehicles is unlikely.
Would like to hear if others had HCG (pregnyl brand) sides like this. Have held Saturday dose and haven’t shot for 4 days still have mild sunburn feel Fatigue but it’s calming down. Plan to hold hcg till this passes and have doc visit.
Thanks all glad to have found this community.
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