You cannot order your own labs in NJ, NY and must use a doctor.
Many docs are quite useless at TRT and oddly, we see more problems with endo’s. We see problems from T-shops as they can lack focus on the larger picture and suffer from T tunnel vision.
Please create a thread just for your case and keep to that so your particulars are not scattered about.
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys - need more info about you
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.