This blood thickening is more often seen with higher TRT doses. In your case, you probably triggered that with gear. Avoid iron fortified cereals, bread, pasta, rice and vitamins. HTC=50 is livable for now. Injecting twice a week and SC not IM will reduce effects of T peak levels.
Please provide protocol in detail and labs in list format with ranges.
Thyroid labs?
With adrenal fatigue, rT3 is often?typically elevated and that blocks fT3 at T3 receptors. Lower body temps are then expected. Long term low thyroid function can make outer eyebrows sparse. Hopefully you have always used iodized salt to support thyroid hormone production. Thyroid lab ranges are quite useless and then doctors think that everything is “normal”.
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
- Thyroid basics
Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.