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<blockquote data-quote="BigTex" data-source="post: 232349" data-attributes="member: 43589"><p>Thanks [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER]. Also on the blood testing, my doctor started me on TRT with the exact same SINGLE blood test I had my son do. I know without a doubt if I took him there Monday, he would list him as testosterone deficient and prescribe the EXACT same dose I did. Yes [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER], after about 3 months I will have him test again and will drop much of the testing and add a few more areas like LH and FSH and my wife particularly wants to see progesterone levels. I will know in three months whether we need to go up of down on dose.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My doctor started me out on 200mg every 7 days. I told him right there it was way to much for me so he went 150mg ever 10 day. Crap, after 42 years of taking testosterone and years of blood work, I know how well how I react. Heck, I competed on 250mg/wk. So, I tested myself after 2 months I believe and had a 2103 (go figure). I tried to tell him it was too much. So, I immediately made the decision to cut the dose to 100mg ever 10 days and later 80mg ever 10 days. My doctor was not a part of this decision. I did it because of my blood testing showed I was taking way too much. People in my sport know well how to read blood testing analysis and know well how to treat each factor when it comes to using anabolic steroids. We have been doing it for years.</p><p></p><p>By the way, I don't pay much attention to Ouest or LabCorp’s norm ranges. In the last few years (`2016) they lowered the norms based a request from WHO. Why? The fact that male testosterone levels are falling 2% each year doesn't mean the norms need to be lowered, instead we need to get males hormone levels back to the old normal range. It is unacceptable to accept a new normal when so many males are showing signs of low testosterone levels. Being depressed is not normal and should not accept this as the “new normal. Below are the old "norms." Why have we accepted that lower is better when so many males feel like crap? According to Yale School of Medicine “Testosterone deficiency has a prevalence of 10%-40% among adult males, and 20% among men aged 15-39 year.” Why is this acceptable?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]25190[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>When my doctor first twsted me in 2016 I had a 772 serum testosterone reading from Quest. My doctor told me to not pay any attention to the number and pay more attention to how I felt. I told him I didn't feel great. So he said to go up some on it as long as the rest of my blood work was good. So I pushed it up to 1100 and everything was fine. I was using 750mg of Testosterone Undecanoate ever 4 weeks. I did more testing in 3 months and all we well. At that point I felt pretty damn good.Yet the quest nor range at that time had been dropped from 1100 to: Reference Range: 250-827 ng/dL. </p><p></p><p>Yes [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER], I will continue to share. I have a lot of experience to share with other</p><p></p><p></p><p>When my doctor first tested me in 2016 I had a 772 serum testosterone reading from Quest. I was already on self-diagnosed TRT for a few years after I retired from competition. My doctor told me to not pay any attention to the number and pay more attention to how I felt. I told him I didn't feel great. So, he said to go up some on it as long as the rest of my blood work was good. So, I pushed it up to 1100 and everything was fine. I was using 750mg of UG Testosterone Undecanoate ever 4 weeks. I did more testing in 3 months and all we well. At that point I felt pretty damn good. Yet the Quest normal range at that time had been dropped from 1100 to: Reference Range: 250-827 ng/dL.</p><p></p><p>Yes [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER], I will continue to share. I have a lot of experience to share with others.</p><p>s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigTex, post: 232349, member: 43589"] Thanks [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER]. Also on the blood testing, my doctor started me on TRT with the exact same SINGLE blood test I had my son do. I know without a doubt if I took him there Monday, he would list him as testosterone deficient and prescribe the EXACT same dose I did. Yes [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER], after about 3 months I will have him test again and will drop much of the testing and add a few more areas like LH and FSH and my wife particularly wants to see progesterone levels. I will know in three months whether we need to go up of down on dose. My doctor started me out on 200mg every 7 days. I told him right there it was way to much for me so he went 150mg ever 10 day. Crap, after 42 years of taking testosterone and years of blood work, I know how well how I react. Heck, I competed on 250mg/wk. So, I tested myself after 2 months I believe and had a 2103 (go figure). I tried to tell him it was too much. So, I immediately made the decision to cut the dose to 100mg ever 10 days and later 80mg ever 10 days. My doctor was not a part of this decision. I did it because of my blood testing showed I was taking way too much. People in my sport know well how to read blood testing analysis and know well how to treat each factor when it comes to using anabolic steroids. We have been doing it for years. By the way, I don't pay much attention to Ouest or LabCorp’s norm ranges. In the last few years (`2016) they lowered the norms based a request from WHO. Why? The fact that male testosterone levels are falling 2% each year doesn't mean the norms need to be lowered, instead we need to get males hormone levels back to the old normal range. It is unacceptable to accept a new normal when so many males are showing signs of low testosterone levels. Being depressed is not normal and should not accept this as the “new normal. Below are the old "norms." Why have we accepted that lower is better when so many males feel like crap? According to Yale School of Medicine “Testosterone deficiency has a prevalence of 10%-40% among adult males, and 20% among men aged 15-39 year.” Why is this acceptable? [ATTACH type="full"]25190[/ATTACH] When my doctor first twsted me in 2016 I had a 772 serum testosterone reading from Quest. My doctor told me to not pay any attention to the number and pay more attention to how I felt. I told him I didn't feel great. So he said to go up some on it as long as the rest of my blood work was good. So I pushed it up to 1100 and everything was fine. I was using 750mg of Testosterone Undecanoate ever 4 weeks. I did more testing in 3 months and all we well. At that point I felt pretty damn good.Yet the quest nor range at that time had been dropped from 1100 to: Reference Range: 250-827 ng/dL. Yes [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER], I will continue to share. I have a lot of experience to share with other When my doctor first tested me in 2016 I had a 772 serum testosterone reading from Quest. I was already on self-diagnosed TRT for a few years after I retired from competition. My doctor told me to not pay any attention to the number and pay more attention to how I felt. I told him I didn't feel great. So, he said to go up some on it as long as the rest of my blood work was good. So, I pushed it up to 1100 and everything was fine. I was using 750mg of UG Testosterone Undecanoate ever 4 weeks. I did more testing in 3 months and all we well. At that point I felt pretty damn good. Yet the Quest normal range at that time had been dropped from 1100 to: Reference Range: 250-827 ng/dL. Yes [USER=38590]@readalot[/USER], I will continue to share. I have a lot of experience to share with others. s. [/QUOTE]
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