I’m 62 and started TRT 7 years ago. Really bad decision on my part as I was very sickly with really poor diet and lifestyle. Obviously should have cleaned up my life and my endocrine system first, and then looked at TRT which probably wouldn’t have been necessary. Now I’m much healthier and have been on the warpath for better health for years now.
Would it make sense to get off the TRT and see if I can reset and see where I land or is this idea just a pipe dream and I’m stuck with it for life?
I’m self injecting sub q around the navel .15 ml E3D, no anastrozole with high range total and mid range Free and E2 #s.
Optimal healthy testosterone at 62+ naturally, this is a pipe dream. You want healthy testosterone at 62 years old, I don’t know any men your age with healthy testosterone.
Most are tired and winding down into retirement with all the aches pains of aging. You’re 7 years older now and testosterone would have declined anyway, so don’t expect similar numbers today.
Did you even treat your suboptimal thyroid numbers?
A free T3 of 2.8 is not even midrange, TSH 3.3 can’t be a good sign being that it was 7 years ago. I didn’t see any Reverse T3 testing, maybe that’s the cause for elevated TSH.
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Thanks for the reply. Well I don’t have the knowledge to really understand the risk/reward curve for TRT for life. Does your knowledgebase and resolve have you believing that TRT for life outweighs a very healthy lifestyle/endocrine system for the long term without supplemental T?
So if I could turn back time and choose optimal endocrine system health with “normal” albeit reduced age related T decline as I age vs TRT for life with higher numbers… what would you choose?
It’s slowly becoming impossible to be healthy in an environment that is poisonous to our health, our environment has thousands of chemicals many of which are disrupting our endocrine systems.
I’ll answer this with a question, do you want to feel amazing like a younger version of yourself or do you want to feel like other men your age, tired and losing muscle while becoming weaker?
There is more risk off of TRT than on, in fact I can’t think of one negative health consequence to being on TRT.
Maybe the adrenal glands being suppressed on TRT?? But I guess that could be monitored by checking dhea s and cortisol. Or perhaps long term suppression of LH can impact something??
How many mgs is .13ml? Just curious because that sounds like an extremely low amount. I inject .13ml (28.6mg) per day. My T is 220mg/ml
Pregnenolone can decrease months or few years or even decades after LH suppression, not everyone feels this decrease, but does happen. Dr. Rob Kominiarek has seen this often in his practice, guy comes in a says his memory isn’t what it used to be and has brain fog and Dr. Rob expects to see pregnenolone deficiency.
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OK how about this question. I’m about to do a HTMA consult with a woman who probably isn’t familiar with suppressed LH and TRT in general. Are there typical HTMA results which associate directly to longterm TRT which I can give her a heads up about?
.1 ml = 100mg
.2 ml = 200mg
I inject .15 ml E3D, or 150 mg… I use a small 1/2 ml insulin needle… one of us has the numbers wrong (me probably).
Post a picture of your bottle. Most bottles of testosterone are around 200mg/ml. If .10ml = 100mg then you have 1000mg/ml which means you are crying from the pain after each injection. No offense but if there is one thing you should be sure about I personally think it should be the amount you are injecting. If it’s 200mg/ml then you are injecting 30mg every 3 days which is 70mg/week. That’s a very low TRT dose.
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