Using HCG to raise a trough.

Greyfox

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After reading about Dr Crisler and his take on HCG I am wondering if pushing my HCG from day 3 and 5 to day 6 and 7 (weekly Cyp injections) would help with my weekend trough. I am still trying to get my clinic to OK twice weekly injections so I am looking at this as a backup option to help. Also, would it be more beneficial to inject 500iu on day 6 instead of doing 2 250iu injections?
 
If you're primary Hypogonadal, problem is/was the testes, it's not going to make much of any kind of appreciable difference as you can stim the testes all you want but if that was were your problem is/was with being low T, you're just wasting HCG.
This is a very old Crisler model in fact called the Crisler "method" and it's probably 5-10 years old now. Thought being you injected HCG on the last two days of a once weekly injection to help bridge over the trough.
 

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