Added HCG, Anxiety Went Up

Hi,

My doc has just put me on 1,500IU a week in addition to 16mg of Test E ED to help boost my low e2.

This has created some nasty anxiety (which I was trying to get rid of in the first place).

Is this just due to it being a protocol change and I just need to bare it until my levels stabilse?

Thanks

This is almost always the answer.

If you had asked me about HCG on TRT 6 months ago i would have said it’s absolutely necessary.

However, having started a new protocol 6 weeks ago without it I can now say I feel much better without it!

Nothing has shrunk yet either, gone the other way if anything, at least that’s what it feels like to me

Cheers

Takes about 6 months for the atrophy to really be evident. I cycle HCG and it makes bo difference in how I feel. But a protocol change can definitely affect things.

Most can accomplish what you are trying to do on far less HCG.

How many times a week are you injecting HCG?

How often do you do this please?

I cycle it 3 months on and 3 months off. I should retract my previous statement about HCG use. I just went back on again yesterday, and Libido is up. So for me there are pluses. I feel good going on and coming off.

Thanks, might try that myself see how it goes

MWF. Doctors orders. I dont want to get him offside by dropping it without him knowing as its been a struggle to find someone in Australia who will actually give a damn about low E2

There is a study that showed that that dose of HCG, alone, in three divided doses, took the subjects above their prior TT norms, without any exogenous T.

I have injected 80 IU to 200 IU 3x a week, with 110 mg TC in three divided doses, to good effect, though other men will likely have different results.

What are your TT and free T numbers on those doses? For me, I’d be at TT of 1,300-1,400 or more. More than I would feel comfortable with. How do you feel?

HCG while on Exogenous Test wont inflate his T numbers that much because he is still somewhat suppressed. But I have experienced the increase in Test and it does a number on your body when higher T puts more demands on your vitamin reserves. So take a multivitamin or added Vitamin D and B12 to support the higher use of these essential vitamins. I have been against the use of supplementing while on TRT levels, but lets say you do go above the range. You need to supplement in order to get rid of the anxiety that could come with depletion. Hope this helps.

Thanks