Yes.
That’s what the study found and it’s not much better after multiple injections. I always returned to very low levels and felt a crash 5 days after my injection which was noted in the study. Worse is estrogen is still elevated at the time when testosterone is lower and this is why men feel worse than pre-TRT, because they are estrogen dominant.
My co-works were always asking me if I was sick on day 6 after my injection, if others can see it than you know it’s not in your head.
Shit well when I see him in a month I will ask for weekly injections
And you were on weekly or bi weekly injections at that time?
Don’t assume weekly is going to be any better, lot’s of men still notice a crash 4-5 days after an injection, did you read the study? It was noted 6 days after an injection levels were below the therapeutic ranges.
So what is the best protocol
It’s kind of difficult to determine anything without lab testing, so far the only labs you have are TT levels. Only you can tell us what is the best protool for you, we can only do a best guess based on labs.
I would need TT, estrogen and SHBG at a minimum. I can figure out your FT by calculating TT and SHBG using the Tru-T calculator, the estrogen level will also aid me in figuring out the optimal injections frequency.
Ok I will see about getting a shbg test and estrogen test
Thank you for your help
My first injection is soon not sure when I would be getting these tests soon after my injection because when I can see the doctor would it matter if I got the tests soon after my first injection
I doubt you doctor will order new labs, he will probably tell you it’s unnecessary. The problem is socialized medicine cuts corners to keep costs down and unfortunately this may hamper a successful outcome.
The majority of doctors are not very knowledgeable in replacing testosterone, they follow guidelines that are over 20 years old and follow these outdated guidelines because they don’t know what they’re doing.
The doctors that do know what they are doing are going to order the appropriate labs before treatment begins, not after. I doubt your doctor will be able to interpret the labs to be able to formulate a plan.
Doctors that prescribe TRT on a daily basis are going to figure things out quickly, but doctors who rarely prescribe TRT and going to learn things very slowly if at all. TRT for a lot of doctors is not a chosen field of medicine, but rather an inconvenience.
Damn eh
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Look up anti aging clinics in your area. They’ll let you do your own shots. Won’t be covered by insurance though but likely fairly cheap
This is not actually true. Costs are controlled by controlling what they pay for things and centralizing labs. They’ll do tests, especially if switching doctors or adjusting doses. Blood work isn’t very expensive for the government there. I lived it, and my sister is a nurse (travel and ER) in Canada.
I can’t do my own shots I live in a second stage recovery center
I’m sure the anti aging place would let you come in once a week and give you a shot. You could rent a locker somewhere like the post office and keep it there, keep it at a friend’s house or show your current doctor studies showing once a week injections are optimal.
So I went in for my first injection and the doctser seeing me said that he is going to give me a 1/2 ml instead of a whole ml because it’s the really good stuff and it’s double the strength he said I told him my prescription was a mlhe said he knows but it’s double the strength and it’s 10 shots to a vial if it’s a 1/2 ml instead if 5 if it’s 1 ml I said I could afford it he gave a full ml in the end.he told me to see my regular doctor there to talk it over with him because he thinks he didn’t realize what he was doing and the doctor that gave me the shot said he would never do a full ml for his patients only a 1/2 ml of this stuff I see my regular doctor in 16 days it was Tuesday today and my regular doctor only works Thursday I’m going to ask him if I can do a half ml once a week instead of a whole ml every two weeks the prescription I have is delatestryl which is test enthanate USP 200 mg every two weeks I’m going to see if I can get 100 mg once a week
If my energy levels drop which I sure they will after a week I’m going to tell him I would prefer weekly injections
Volume doesn’t matter. Dosage is what matters. Is it 100mg or 200mg or 250mg or what? Volume tells us literally nothing.
I said delatestryl 200 mg is what I have at the end of my post it’s test enthanate