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<blockquote data-quote="Reason" data-source="post: 100300" data-attributes="member: 17508"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Week 3 Update:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>TL;DR:</strong> Still feel good, little change from last week. Sleep still an issue.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>The Good:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Mood still vastly improved from pre-TRT. That feeling of patience and optimism is the biggest change brought on by the treatment so far, and week after week it has been there for me. It sounds small, but as many of you here know quite well, it is quite a change and a <em>vast</em> improvement over where I was before. Hoping it's not just placebo because I quite like it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Libido and sexual function are at an all-time (since TRT) high. Nothing I haven't experienced before, but it had been quite a few years since I've felt like this.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>The Bad (non-TRT related):</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong></strong>Poor sleep. Waking up in the middle of the night or too early is still an issue. I've been monitoring my snoring (<a href="https://snorelab.com/" target="_blank">this app is incredible</a>) to check for apnea and it seems like it may be a factor, but I also have poor sleep on quiet nights so I'm gonna try my pulse oximeter this coming week to see if I can detect anything. I've gained 10 or so lbs in the past ~6 months, 4lbs since TRT, and I've found a correlation with weight gain and poor sleep before as higher BMI is a factor for apnea. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Will also look into the glycogen depletion theory circulating here and am considering going back on keto.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Switched to sublingual Pregnenolone nightly and it does help me fall asleep quite nicely without any other aids, but seems to do nothing for the problem above. I had to stop the DHEA because it comes in the same cap as the oral Pregnenolone. Not a fan of changing 2 variables at once, but oh well.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Poor sleep has led to worse recovery from exercise and daytime tiredness. Not as bad as pre-TRT, but I'm not feeling great at all (physically) and it's very frustrating. Lifetime issue, it's time to adapt once again...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Questions:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Week 2 and 3 I started feeling a noticeable dip in mood/energy on Sundays. Melissa asked me to monitor this. I was injecting in the mornings MWF but after reading some posts on here I decided to switch to M (morning), W (early afternoon), F (night) to spread out the doses more evenly. Thoughts? Irrelevant this early in treatment?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Here's a weird one: I don't mind the injections at all, I like routine, and the MWF schedule feels weird. How long before I should consider discussing with my doctor switching to a daily schedule? I'm guessing waiting until the 3-month re-eval, correct?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">--</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Hopefully these can be useful for newbies like me or folks considering getting treatment.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reason, post: 100300, member: 17508"] [SIZE=4][B]Week 3 Update: [/B][SIZE=2][B]TL;DR:[/B] Still feel good, little change from last week. Sleep still an issue. [B]The Good: [/B] Mood still vastly improved from pre-TRT. That feeling of patience and optimism is the biggest change brought on by the treatment so far, and week after week it has been there for me. It sounds small, but as many of you here know quite well, it is quite a change and a [I]vast[/I] improvement over where I was before. Hoping it's not just placebo because I quite like it. Libido and sexual function are at an all-time (since TRT) high. Nothing I haven't experienced before, but it had been quite a few years since I've felt like this. [B]The Bad (non-TRT related): [/B]Poor sleep. Waking up in the middle of the night or too early is still an issue. I've been monitoring my snoring ([URL="https://snorelab.com/"]this app is incredible[/URL]) to check for apnea and it seems like it may be a factor, but I also have poor sleep on quiet nights so I'm gonna try my pulse oximeter this coming week to see if I can detect anything. I've gained 10 or so lbs in the past ~6 months, 4lbs since TRT, and I've found a correlation with weight gain and poor sleep before as higher BMI is a factor for apnea. Will also look into the glycogen depletion theory circulating here and am considering going back on keto. Switched to sublingual Pregnenolone nightly and it does help me fall asleep quite nicely without any other aids, but seems to do nothing for the problem above. I had to stop the DHEA because it comes in the same cap as the oral Pregnenolone. Not a fan of changing 2 variables at once, but oh well. Poor sleep has led to worse recovery from exercise and daytime tiredness. Not as bad as pre-TRT, but I'm not feeling great at all (physically) and it's very frustrating. Lifetime issue, it's time to adapt once again... [B]Questions:[/B] Week 2 and 3 I started feeling a noticeable dip in mood/energy on Sundays. Melissa asked me to monitor this. I was injecting in the mornings MWF but after reading some posts on here I decided to switch to M (morning), W (early afternoon), F (night) to spread out the doses more evenly. Thoughts? Irrelevant this early in treatment? Here's a weird one: I don't mind the injections at all, I like routine, and the MWF schedule feels weird. How long before I should consider discussing with my doctor switching to a daily schedule? I'm guessing waiting until the 3-month re-eval, correct? -- Hopefully these can be useful for newbies like me or folks considering getting treatment.[/SIZE][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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