I posted a response yesterday. Not sure why it didn’t go through. Anyhow, KSman, my context is here. You will find it familiar.
Before you blast me for branching away from my log, I just wanted to know the answer to that question without cluttering my log with a different topic.
hCG IS involved. A question I haven’t ever thought of before because it hasn’t ever come up, does hCG give inaccurate LH readings on a blood test? Does hCG act in a similar way towards the pituitary as exogenous testosterone? Meaning, once one is on TRT, LH readings are useless? Clomid (or Nolvadex. Pick your poison), increases LH output, but hCG possibly hinders the pituitary, so a SERM challenge while on hCG would be useless? I’m attempting to find a way to see if a restart is actually possible without having to go through the grueling process of quitting TRT and attempt it without any known chance of success. I dug around to see if this is possible and found nothing.
How small would a prolactinoma need to be in order to have the greatest chance of success of a restart? These are, of course, questions for an endocrinologist. I don’t have the time or luxury to have the oversight of one in my current conditions, unfortunately.
What has prompted the severity of this question now? My insurance is discontinuing it’s authorization of androgel; Wanting me to switch to Fortesta. I’m tired of the hassle of finding the product and correct dosage. It took me 1.5 years to find out androgel worked best for me.
I also updated my log.