Long story short, I was on TRT for about 7-8 years, injecting 2-4 time a week for a total of ~150mg of T Cypionate.
On June 14th I had my last injection of 70 mg.
I quit cold turkey, no HCG, no other support.
Blood test from last week hit 702 for Total T.
My sack never got smaller throughout these years. I used HCG a total of ~5 times throughout this entire time.
Am I an outlier, or, is recovery more common than what we think it will be?
Before anyone asks, I don't have a pre-TRT blood test and yes the doc prescribed me (legit) without it but I'm almost certain I was low T prior to this (due to life circumstances, including a divorce, where I had lost most of my muscle mass and was looking skinny).
Blood test from last week hit 702 for Total T.
Shooting in the dark here.
This means absolutely nothing without knowing where the most important blood marker free testosterone sits.
If you have high SHBG your FT can easily be sub-par as in far from stellar.
You need to test your FT to see where your baseline truly sits.
TT means nothing when looking at the bigger picture here.
You should have known this after all these years.
Test the critical fraction so we can see how well you have recovered 4+ months after stopping T therapy!
Long story short, I was on TRT for about 7-8 years, injecting 2-4 time a week for a total of ~150mg of T Cypionate.
On June 14th I had my last injection of 70 mg.
I quit cold turkey, no HCG, no other support.
My sack never got smaller throughout these years. I used HCG a total of ~5 times throughout this entire time.
If you were injecting ~150mg T/week then it is a given there would be some degree of testicular atrophy especially seeing as you only used hCG 5 times over a 7-8 period on T therapy.
Even then during that 7-8 year stint you were hitting a very high trough TT and more importantly trough FT and throw in the times you were injecting that absurd. dose 200 T mg/week, or when you added in nandrolone, dabbled with oxandrolone and that mini blast 400 mg T/week which has absolutely nothing to do with T therapy.
Overkill here.
No way you never experienced any testicular atrophy.
My reply from an older thread.
Most men are judging testicular size whether a natty baseline or on T therapy by feel as in palming the testes in the hand.
Maybe the wife or girlfriend fondling your family jewels too LOL!
Unfortunately the only way to truly know how much shrinkage occurred on solo exogenous T or growth when adding hCG or hCG + FSH would be using a prader orchidometer most commonly used by endocrinologists or the gold standard high frequency scrotal ultrasound or even an MRI.
I wonder if a 1x/week of low dose hcg would be enough too? What about 500IU or lower?
DMC!
No one knows if 500 IU once weekly is enough.
Trial and error would be the only way to know.
A higher once-weekly dose may be required to maintain intratesticular testosterone which supports the germ-cell mass that accounts for most of the seminiferous tubule volume/size.
If intra-testicular testosterone falls too low between injections then germ-cell mass, seminiferous tubule volume, and testicular size may decline.
Top it all off that most men are judging testicular size whether a...
