I feel great on the cream and it’s been a month. It feels allot cleaner in effect . I don’t get weird anxiety and labido like I was on injections.
On the other hand my history is complex because I needed thyroid and started the thyroid with the cream.
I can tell you I am taking 3am and 3pm and I do not have any estrogen side effects. Zero bloat, anxiety, good labido and sleep .
With injections my labido disappeared after 2 weeks in until 2-3 months out.
It’s really not bad if you align your cream with brushing teeth . It’s faster than injevtions and dries quickly.
I’ll be having a new blood test in the coming weeks and will share
FYI Dr Nichols is on the cream himself. He had similar low t issues as I did and that’s why I chose him. So keep that in mind. A doc who has low t (extreme sides) and is using the cream. That speaks volumes. Especially when compared to a doc prescribing cream but is not on it himself.
That wasn’t my original point which was your blanket statement that injections were better than creams and I know the paper you are referring to. Injections are better than transdermals…except the trans scrotal application. Point is not to lump that method into the other transdermals. Injections are great…but so is a high concentration applied to the scrotum
You don’t need to wait for it to dry. Rub it in for 20 seconds and evenly. After a min put your clothes on and go. That’s how I do it. Make sure skins moist after a shower helps allot. Your making it harder than it needs to be
You need to compare two studies from each type of dosing. Injections increase e2 with one shot. Creams did not have a substantial increase . It is a good starting point.
More like puffiness on the face and etc. my wife commented on it many times. It all dissapeaeed some weeks ago and she commented again. Is your period gone?
I get what your saying that it shows one injection increases estradiol. Take into account though, the graphs are based on the half life of testosterone cypionate and are showing days of changes. They do not show estradial climbing within hours of injection. At least not that I could find. The study for creams is based on hours in ONE day. If it showed a day by day comparison I would be receptive to it as I believe it takes time to aromatize into estrogen. I could be wrong. Unless you have something else to refer me to they are not accurate comparisons to me.
mildly on topic here, but for the high SHBG guys, scrotal makes more sense (or in conjunction with…). DHT has the greatest binding affinity for SHBG so you want to maximize that conversion. Since I believe DHT conversion happens locally, the balls being the major local converter, it makes sense to provide the balls the testosterone for the conversion. This is the most natural way to manage high SHBG.
as an aside, i’ve seen comments suggesting that TRT is about muscle mass, strength etc. While thats nice, TRT is about feeling good primarily. Confidence (that only dht can bring), wanting to fuck, energy etc.
Never thought about it that way or realized that could be why. There you go fellas. High shbg assault rifle the scrotul approach… I’ve never talked about balls so much…
This is what got me to do the endoscopy that fucked me up
Man I thought I was the only one…
@jpt365@enackers also I was taking sucralfate a few times during day for gastritis I got from endoscopy. That’s way better now. I also take 40 mg omperazole first thing in am.
But i still get this burning that wakes me up around 530am. If I prop myself up it will go away but that sucks I have to sit up and sleep.
Dr said to just take a sucralfate before bed to see if it helps and continue the omperazole.
2nd endoscopy just showed 2 Mild areas of non active gastritis.
Something doesn’t add up for me, and I’m probably missing something. Hopefully someone can correct my error in thinking.
Does this mean you are applying 300mg per day, and absorbing 225mg-255mg? That seems like a major dose if so. This is why I think my math must be off, or I’m missing a key component.
I wish I knew, my theories are food sensitivity or electrolyte issues.
I’m not too familiar with sucralfate but I’ve taken omeprazole before. I took it for 3 months and it resolved my heartburn for many months after stopping it. Unfortunately my heartburn returned after taking antibiotics, it’s not as bad as it used to be though. These days I just stop eating and drinking 2-3 hours before going to bed, stops the nighttime reflux.
As far as having to prop yourself up, what I do if I think I’ll have heartburn all night is keep a large glass of almond milk at my bedside. It neutralizes the acid instantly, doesn’t work forever but it will get you back to sleep quickly.
