I have realtively low T (300s). 42 years old. Doctor prescribed Androgel. Relatively athletic, but probaly a little overweight.
Now, I know enough about HRT that Androgel will just shut me down. I don’t think it will actually “raise” T, unless I take a lot of it, in which case my own production is shut down.
I don’t want to be shut down, and I asked him about the protocol of injecting T + hcg etc. He’s an endo, but he’s not doing that…doesn’t like it, doesn’t seem too openminded. He seemed to be of the opinion that one could just take a “little” androgel regularly and raise my T from the 300s to the 500s, without me being shut down. Is this true? Or is it a 1 for 1 replacement?
So I’m back to square 1. My question is, though, could I take androgel for a day or two to get kind of a “T spike” just for the girlfriend’s sake, so to speak, and then get off it…that way I’d have no supression issues, while still getting a spike? Or is that a bad idea??
I don’t think it works that way. Cialis might work that way but TRT shuts down your own producting. I believe the HCG keeps you testicals capable of working but I don’t think they are pumping out much Test or any because you have it in your system already. You have to read up on the HCG to better understand what it is doing but I do not think your testicals are producing much if any while the blood level is up from the TRT.
The HCG just keeps them from completely shutting down which is good because they are producing other hormones. It is suprising that an Endo would be so miss informed regarding the subjuect of TRT. Now you see the biggest problem with TRT. So many doctors are not well informed about it. I expect that will change with time. Lets face it, I don’t think anyone was really doing it 20 years ago unless you lost your nuts from some accident or illness.
The problem is that this endo is typical and endos are typically worse than other docs at TRT.
When you use a transdermal to spike your T, as the T goes down, the created E2 lingers and that is more HPTA repressive than the T. Your T will drop lower afterwards and your elevated E will create an adverse T:E ratio until your body recovers and may not recover to the same place.
Guys who inject every week or two weeks often end up feeling worse than prior to TRT.