I am finally starting to get somewhere!! After almost 4 months, swapping to 120mg e5d is finally giving me noticeable benefits. I’ve felt better the past 2 weeks, I have been running at the track on my lunch break, I have alot less anxiety about things, and I’m laughing about things again. I am super excited, these past 4 minths have been torture.
Just got my blood tests back from the 100mg e7d dose. 888 total T, and 17.6 Free T…
Im so confused I couldn’t tell any difference on that dose, but now that im taking 120 e5d I feel so much better. But wint that mean my T levels are going to be super high?
Maybe. But symptom resolution is usually more important than the numbers, within some level of sanity of course.
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He didn’t ask me to come in or anything. He just attached the tests with his usual, “continue as prescribed.”
Although I find it off that I couldn’t notice much difference from 3.5 free T, to 17.
“Super high” is a little relative. Your free T has a tipping point, so to speak. Once you hit enough, you feel better, up to that point it makes just about no difference one way or the other.
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I’m finushing my 3rdweek on the 120mg e5d dose. 4 months into TRT over all. Ive gained roughly 12 pounds. Once I started the 120mg I began to feel more energy and a overall better feeling (possibly placebo). I started working 50 hours a week again, started running on my lunch breaks, and the guys have said they have noticed a difference the past few weeks. Tbh I still feel the same mentally. Dragged down in my mind, unmotivated at home, but I know things are happening. Im still eatting properly, drinking tons of water, no nicotine, ect. Im trying to figure out if the baggage is from the low T or from my own mentallity. Granted im only 3 weeks into this dose, I assume that means I start all over and need to reach week 6 before I notice any benefits? Im sticking with TRT no matter what but dang after 4 months you think I would really “FEEL” it. I was looking for the motivation and positivity I suppose.
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Then there is something else wrong and more testing is needed. If IGF-1 is low, no amount of testosterone will be enough to see anything happen. You need to see a hormone specialists and not some ordinary doctor who most often have no skills to truly help you.
While I don’t think you have a thyroid problem, T3 is best used for diagnosing hyperthyroidism, not hypothyroidism and you need Free T3 tested. You doctor doesn’t understand things very well and so you are spinning your wheels.
TSH 1.720 scale: 0.450-4.500
T4 8.2 scale: 4.5-12.0
T3 uptake 24 scale: 24-39
Free thyroxine Index 2.0 scale: 1.2-4.9
T3 140 scale: 71-180
That is everything on the Thyroid page.
Maybe I ahould gather of my date so far, and post it all in one post, in order, and add how I felt during each cycle.
Anyone else have any idea of what I could do? I plan on talking to doctor during the visit in 2 weeks. But would like to be proactive if possible. Or have an idea of what is going on.
The way you describe how your feeling currently with your current protocol I think you are almost there, as you are feeling better physically compared to other protocols you have been on. For me the mentality was slower coming and after near a year of TRT I am still seeing improvements. I believe you will see more and more improvements the longer you stay where you are feeling better physically. One thing I had to recognize though was the positive mentality was something I had to work on myself also and not just hoping T did it for me. Feeling better physically from the T helps a whole hell of a lot but the mind will still have that baggage the low t and any other past current life situations contributed to that you have to get untrained and that takes time. IMHO
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Well, I am 4 weeks into my 155mg split e5d protocol. Last week I had 3-4 days where I was feeling better and played basketball for hours outside. Then onve Friday hit I was back down in dumps. I still wake up extremely fatigued every morning, fighting to force myself awake. I took my last dose Friday but I mever notice myself pick up, get a high or a low. Going to try to wake up and go to sleep at the same time everyday and see how that does. I usually sleep around the same time dhring the week but allow myself to qake up naturally most weekends hoping it will help. Tired all day today, woke up late. Still haven’t perked up any today. Idk if I should stick it out to the 6 week mark and hope it magically start working then or swap my protocol hoping for some sort of difference. This is driving me insane and heavily effecting my life. I just want something to work and keep working.
Today i woke up tired, but within an hour I began to think about getting things in order, I was waking up. I began to feeeeelllll gggoooooddddd again. I got my day scheduled, built my choire list, detailed my car in break, fixed my lawnmower after prepping a trac hoe, about to go for my mile run on lunch. I feel nice and focused in this extreme heat. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT’S HAPPENING. How do I make it stay like this forever lol. That’s all I want. Maybe a little better but damn I will happily take this if this is the best I can get as long as it stays.
How long have you been on this protocol now? Do you shoot once or twice a week? Has your concentration been affected at all?
Ive been on TRT for roughly 4 months. I did 6 weeks on 80mg once a week, then 100mg once a week, now I’m taking 155mg split into 120mg every 5 days. As of today I am 4 weeks and 3 days into this new dose. Right now I keep flopping around mentally. Physically I know it’s doing something. I’ve got way more deffinition in my arms, back, and legs. I’ve also gained 10 pounds since starting TRT, but I’m flopping on how I feel overall. It’s not a swing by shot to shot either. One week I felt amazing, more confident, eager to do things, less anxiety, ect. Then the next week I’m back to the usual fatigue and brain fog. Like last week i was down and out most of the week, this week I’ve done alright. I thought about breaking my shot down to every 3.5 days but wanted to atleast continue doing the e5d thing since im so close to stable levels. I don’t know if im just getting fluctuations from changing my dose again, or if something else is wrong, or if I need to change my dose. I shouldn’t be as worried about it as I am, but I’ve been on TRT for 4 minths with little difference, and now that I’m seeing some change I want it to come now, as I have felt terrible for years.
Have you thought about injecting through a continuous perpetual IV? Like a slow drip kinda thing.
Also, how do you measure 80mg on the syringe? Isn’t the shot dose always inconsistent at that dose?
Shouldn’t be an issue with smaller syringes, people dose way way less than that daily and are consistent about it. I do 20mg per day for example w/insulin syringes.
And do the needles have to be longer?
Also, does the frequency of the juice affect how your body tolerates it? In other words, does it take time to also balance out in your body when you change injection schedule?
I am doing subcutaneous injections so 1/2" is plenty for this method
But 1/2" needles injected in the delt will be shallow IM for most people. The muscle is not very deep there so it’s pretty easy to get to
Most people say you need a few weeks to balance out if you change injection frequency. I haven’t personally been on long enough to say from personal experience.