Yes. I once asked my urologist if Trimix would jump start my erectile function and he said it wouldn’t. Not like the PDE-5 drugs or PT-141 where you could be experiencing erectile function on and off for a couple of days.
My wife got seriously upset when I first tried Stendra. I became quite manic and told her what I was prescribed. She went on a rant about how disgusting it was that men are taking a medication to have sex. I told her she didn’t understand that erectile meds saved marriages and relationships. Suffice it to say she’s screwed up, sexually and emotionally, nor does she understand that a man’s sexual function changes as he gets older.
Again, thanks. I look forward to your posts, since you bring the perspective of a physician prescribing testosterone, as well as your experience taking it.
@highpull, out of curiosity what kind of weekly dosage in mg are these guys using? The part I highlighted in bold above, prop users doing twice a week or E3D injections.
Secondly, what kind of blood levels did these guys have at trough? (I expect that to be in the gutter, not necessarily a bad thing and perhaps why the protocol works).
I recently tried less frequency from every other day to 3 times a week because I wanted to keep the same schedule every week. The larger dose makes me feel a little better mentally and physically but is causing insomnia and some irritibility. Libido is better at the higher dose but erections and such have never been a problem on test for me and my wife says it’s too much so an increase in libido is not wanted right now or I’d probably need a girlfriend. I’d rather not think of sex 24/7 as I have other stuff to get done.
Haven’t had any sleep problems when doing around 80 mg/wk every other day. I will give it time but larger spikes don’t seem to sit well with me. I am around 85 mg/wk right now. I’d love to be able to do twice a week just because I’d rather have a regular schedule as needles don’t bother me. I’d inject twice a day or more if it was necessary. Test has been a godsend for me since my LH apparently has always been low (secondary hypo). The boys have shrunk some and it seemed to affect libido af first some then leveled out all is good.
Very few using proprionate, and it’s never my idea. They’ve always been on the internet. Dose at 100-200mg weekly. Labs would be consistent with what you’d expect with the other esters.
12 years ago I started out at a TRT clinic and they only did weekly injections on site. Started out at 100 mg and increased to 140 mg. The entire program sucked and I still crashed at the end of the week. I got sick of the 90 mile round trip to the clinic and found a doc that would prescribe T for self injections.
After about 6 months at the TRT clinic I went to self injections prescribed at 93 mg per week on an E3D protocol (40 mg E3D). It worked very well for me and was on it for several years. Problem was that the doc was very expensive and did not take insurance.
After about 3 years at the TRT specialist, I finally convinced my PCP to take over medical management of my protocol. It’s a constant battle with her on what my T levels should be but it’s all done within insurance. She prescribes the T-cyp at 30 mg E3D (70 mg/wk) and I drop down to that for my annual visits so she sees the numbers she wants to see. For the interim 11 months, I inject at 40 mg E2D (140 mg/wk) and I feel my best at this level. Over the years I’ve tried going higher but I don’t feel any different but I start to have hemoglobin problems and out of range E2.
Hit and miss. Current female doc is great, even gave me Anavar for a “shoulder issue”, but old female doc wanted my TT below 600ng. Most male docs are no different, it’s just luck of the draw
Agree! I switched from a very expensive (male) TRT specialist to my (female) PCP to get a handle on the cost. I think most female docs are much more in tune to hormone issues than male docs. She was at least willing to take on my medication management. I got rejected by two other male docs I approached before her.