Not for nothing but according to dbossa your an outlier cause you ONLY inject 1x a week.
Sorry to hear that. Seriously, a lot of women start HRT when they see what is does for their husbands.
Really, I don’t get that. But, ask around, you’d probably have an easy time finding a lot of fitness minded guys on TRT, through various sources. Ask them what they are doing. I have.
I believe you. Just that according to dbossa almost all his Drs patients inject everyday in order to feel good.
Perhaps the problem here is Both of you are talking about specific populations. I tend to believe there is a good size population that inject 100mg a week and are doing very well.
@highpull is accurate. Most lifters/former lifters are on 200 mg one shot a week. If you ask around, you’ll find it to be the truth.
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It has been 48 hours since my fourth week of TRT started with 200mg test cyp. I spent the last five days drinking a couple very hoppy IPAs a night, something I’d normally avoid like a pair of bitchtits. I also did not take my anastrozole yesterday.
I’m feeling pretty awesome. The flat robotic affect and brittle joints are gone.
I’m snickering because a nugenix ad just came on the Classic Rock station.
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Well the IPAs are ONE way to get your E2 up. X-) Glad you’re feeling better.
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Let me clear something up for you guys.
When you have a guy who takes 200mg a week in a single shot and has zero symptoms, what happens? He never winds up in forums like these. It just worked as he expected and he goes on living his life without thinking about it.
The men who DO wind up in these forums are the men where that typically didn’t work. They need considerably more fine tuning. Some find just moving two twice weekly fixes it. Others do best with EOD. When all else fails, doing daily provides the flattest, most consistent levels you could possibly achieve which is the most you can do if you are sensitive to side effects.
THIS is why most of the guys who have messaged me, who have tried EVERYTHING, find success moving to daily. The guys who message me are the ones that couldn’t get it dialed in. The ones that are dialed in never message me.
Get it?
If you find success doing weekly, do that. If you’ve tried everything and are about to give up hope, daily is virtually fool proof.
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I’m feeling pretty good, Dan. I’m retaining a bit of water, and my face broke out, but I assumed these things would happen and eventually pass. Dropping the AI was the right choice, no doubt about it.
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Awesome to hear! The water retention will pass on its own with some time. If it starts to become a nuisance, pickup any OTC diuretic to flush the water out. After that, it rarely comes back.
Had the same with the water retention… Cankles-r-us. Keep in mind I was maybe 150lbs and 5’ 11" there. I could barley get my shoes on/tied.
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How are you feeling nowadays @ncsugrad2002 ?
@highpull I couldn’t find a way to PM you.
Was it you that mentioned their wife started on HRT, and if so what was the entry point? General practitioner for bloods and referral? Female-oriented telemedicine clinic?
Sorry, completely missed this question.
Better. Not 100% every day all day, but I think it’s down to lack of exercise and eating like crap at this point. TRT can only do so much. I have a pretty long diary somewhere around here if you want to read more about it. But yeah, short version is I’d say I’m at like 85%. Much better than I was to begin with, but I have had days/weeks where I was at like 95% which makes me really want to feel like that all the time…
I’m only about six weeks into TRT but I can tell you that regular exercise seems to boost the positives. After about 48 hours without strenuous exercise I start to feel like I did pre-TRT with a bit more agitation. I’ve found that if I exercise at least every other day, I feel mostly incredible, with dips down to “just OK.”
Perhaps I missed an explanation as to why you aren’t exercising, but you are missing out on a major portion of the TRT experience if you don’t.
Mostly commitment issues, haha. Nah, I have a 1.5 hour each way commute right now every day so that’s killing my days. Get up at 6am to get to work by 8 and get home 630-7 every day. I’m working on a new job. And found a gym that’s on my way home so I think I’m going to start going 3 days a week for 30-40 mins and just start with that
This will take willpower of steel, but try 100 burpees a day. Fit them in however you can, but make sure you get 100. After a month you should be able to nail sets of 10 every minute on the minute for a complete workout time of 11 minutes.
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The hardest thing about 100 burpees a day isn’t doing 100 burpees in a day. It’s doing 100 burpees with proper form that practically doubles the workout.
Fair enough.
I’ve dropped the pushup motion because it limits the amount I can do in one go, and instead focus on jumping as fast and high as I can. This is still a significant amount of movement, and if clustered together as HIIT provides me enough exertion to replace a day in the gym.
Yes. Same clinic I use, they specialize in BHRT and probably see a 50/50 demographic men/women.