Eagle Pharmacy Compounding out of Birmingham, AL sells the entire kit (hCG 10,000iu, 29ga .5ml syringes, reconstituting syringe, AND swab pads) for $50 with a prescription. So, you could get 40,000iu of hCG PLUS all the accessories for what you’re paying for one vial with your current compounding pharmacy. This is without insurance. I pay out of pocket.
Thanks for the heads up. No Costco here but my father-in-law is a member where he lives, will look into that. AL would be a bit of a drive for me unfortunately
Did my first hCG injection today, 250IU sub-q with 31ga insulin pin. Arimidex will be at 0.25mg Monday and Friday. If all goes well, will get labs again in a month and report back.
Anastrozole is hydrophobic, but freely dissolves in alcohol. Vodka works well.
Always have hCG shipped dry, never wet.
My hCG did in fact ship dry with a vial of bac water, which put my mind at ease quite a bit.
My wife is in nursing school and actually appreciates the practice reconstituting and delivering sub-q injections, so I hardly have to do any of the work.
This is just spitballing, no concrete plans, but after my treatment is stabilized I would like to run an AAS cycle (typical beginner cycle, 500mg test only, something along those lines). Since my pituitary should already be shut down anyway, is there any reason I can’t just continue my hCG usage during and after the cycle and return to the same level of function without any special PCT?
I too am secondary hypogonadal due to testicular cancer. Have you found hCG to be useful? I was under the impression that it wouldn’t help someone with hypogonadism.
[quote]OrangeWolverine wrote:
I too am secondary hypogonadal due to testicular cancer. Have you found hCG to be useful? I was under the impression that it wouldn’t help someone with hypogonadism.[/quote]
I am secondary hypogonadal, meaning that my testes work fine but my pituitary isn’t sending the right signal to them. hCG is a pituitary hormone, so it should work for me (haven’t been on it long enough to know for sure yet). If you had testicular cancer you’re probably primary hypogonadal, meaning your testes can’t produce the testosterone, so I would suspect that it wouldn’t be effective in your case.
Edit: missed that you said you were secondary as well. I honestly have no idea in that case.
It is possible that I am mixing up primary and secondary. My doctor never specifies and just says hypogonadal.
I would suggest asking VTBalla, who I believe has gone through testicular cancer himself.
Yes, we are in the same boat. He jumped in my thread and said that it helped out in the beginning, but then he started feeling like crap. Sorry man didn’t mean to hijack your thread!
All good man, wish I could be more helpful
Quick update. I’ve been on hCG @ 250 IU EOD for 4 weeks. I dropped arimidex completely and found that I felt better. Just got labs back:
TT 505 (same as when I was on 25mg/day clomid)
E2 33
I feel good right here so I’m going to cruise like this for a few years until I’m ready to go on regular TRT. Thanks to everyone for all the help I received.
Thanks for posting all this. I’m considering clomid/HCG/AI for my low test @30 myself - also an engineer and over-analyzing TRT to death.
How do you think you got into the low test in the first place? Maybe a low baseline level with additional damage from the pursuit of getting lean?
How would you summarize the Clomid experience? It seems like you “failed” the clomid restart that you attempted from June to January starting at 25mg/day bumped to 50 in October. Do you think there might have been some underlying thyroid/adrenal/nutrition malfunction that caused the failure? Or perhaps do you think the restart worked testosterone-level wise but just felt shitty?
Did you end up tapering off the clomid or dropping completely? Did you consider a lower dose of the Clomid? Did you take any blood tests between ending the Clomid and starting the HCG?
What do you think about the long term effects of HCG 250IU EOD on fertility/pituitary function?
[quote]nomadic wrote:
Thanks for posting all this. I’m considering clomid/HCG/AI for my low test @30 myself - also an engineer and over-analyzing TRT to death.
How do you think you got into the low test in the first place? Maybe a low baseline level with additional damage from the pursuit of getting lean?
How would you summarize the Clomid experience? It seems like you “failed” the clomid restart that you attempted from June to January starting at 25mg/day bumped to 50 in October. Do you think there might have been some underlying thyroid/adrenal/nutrition malfunction that caused the failure? Or perhaps do you think the restart worked testosterone-level wise but just felt shitty?
Did you end up tapering off the clomid or dropping completely? Did you consider a lower dose of the Clomid? Did you take any blood tests between ending the Clomid and starting the HCG?
What do you think about the long term effects of HCG 250IU EOD on fertility/pituitary function?[/quote]
Good questions, I’ll do my best to answer but ksman or vtballa or etc might need to fill in some gaps in my understanding.
Can’t say why I originally had low test, I have never done AAS or prohormones. I went through a phase with poor sleep and nutrition and no exercise in grad school, but my first set of bloods was after getting back in shape.
I was not trying to do a clomid restart per se, my doctor uses clomid for long term treatment. I felt no better on clomid than I did initially despite my TT tripling. There was no break between the clomid and hCG, and all I did to taper was to go back down to 25 mg while waiting for hCG to arrive. I had a semen analysis done while on clomid and it came back very fertile. I will have another done after being on hCG for a few months, will report results if interested.
Pituitary will be permanently shut down on hCG, but mine wasn’t doing jack shit anyway (wrt gonadotropins) so it doesn’t matter to me.
Think I hit all your questions, hope this helps.
Hey guys. I also live near Birmingham and KNOW I have low T so I am looking for a competent doctor in Birmingham or Atlanta. TBltruck89 would you mind sending me a PM and let me know which doctor you used? I sure would appreciate it. Or if someone else has any advice I would appreciate it. I’m 50 and recently I am convinced I’ve been suffering low T since my early 40’s. My GP wants nothing to do with TRT and I can kind of understand that. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks