Hello everyone! I would like to ask this to all of you!
I’m a 21 years old dude who has issues with the typical low T symptoms such as low energy, brain fog, lack of confidence, anxiety, can’t maintain erection for long, etc.
I did 3 tests for testosterone.
First one:
Total T = 243 ng/dl
Second one (Only tested free T and bioavailable T):
The problem is Free T testing from what I see is not accurate, even the Total T labs aren’t entirely accurate either. I’m seeing a lot of men have low testosterone symptoms with Free T midrange and symptoms aren’t fully resolved until at the top of the ranges or above. Take a sample of blood and split it up into multiple samples and you get a different result on each sample of blood.
This place needs a rename, this clinic needs to remove the letters “anti” from aging because this clinic is run by fake doctors with no knowledge whatsoever. The half-life is 7-8 days (cypionate) in the real world, so I expect this clinic director to be scratching his/her head wondering why none of the patients are following through or why they just don’t call anymore.
Your testing is inadequate, no SHBG or estrogen testing and no thyroid testing either which can mimic low testosterone because testosterone is metabolized in the liver and thyroid hormones are required for this process to occur.
For these numbers to be correct, you must have very low SHBG. The total T level is very low given your age, it might be that a thyroid problem is suppressing SHBG, increasing Free hormones giving you somewhat good Free T levels. You just don’t have enough testing to determine anything.
Given this alone something is going on, regardless of what the test numbers say. You really need a full hormone workup:
Lipids
CMP
CBC
FSH
LH
prolactin
IGF-1
TSH
free T3
free T4
total and free test
SHBG
E2
VitD
PSA
Just to start, if those don’t give the answer, more.
There used to be a “stupid things doctors say” thread. This would make the top 10.
You need to nail down the cause of your symptoms before TRT, especially at your age. Those symptoms are tough, at any age. Good luck getting to the bottom of this.
haha pretty much just a bum. I’m lucky enough my job starts later in the afternoon so I can sleep.
Yeah honestly I was shocked when they told me to do 50 mg every 2 weeks. I actually got them to do 50 mg per week now but that is still low as hell. Although I do hear about some people on 50 mg per week and their troughs are like 500? I’m guessing some people react better to low doses.
This is not common, I can do 49mg weekly (7mg daily) and have over 400 ng/dL and FT at 15 pg./mL (6.8-21.5), but I have never seen anyone else this low in total weekly dosage.
Yeah that’s interesting then. I have found someone with a trough of 500 with 50mg once a week. Definitely not common though. Have you tried 50 mg once a week before? How did you feel if you did.
My first protocol was 75mg weekly only got me 550, so 50mg weekly would be less. The thing you have to understand is the decline in levels can be felt by some men and this fluctuation in levels feels terrible if you are sensitive enough to feel it.
Injecting 50mg twice weekly only relief some symptoms, it did nothing to restore my muscle mass, erections or libido. The erections and libido came online when I started injecting my doses EOD, within 2 weeks muscles starting getting heard at half the testosterone level, erections all day long none of which happen on twice weekly dosing even though my FT was 29.6 pg/mL (6.8-21.5) well over the ranges at my lowest point.
So essentially you don’t have reliable lab data, no proper work up of what causes your potential (not confirmed) low T but they made you start TRT at age of 21.
That’s completely irresponsible from this ‚anti aging clinic‘.
I wasted 250$ with this clinic. I’m going to get another blood test in a month. I ain’t injecting shit until I get a better doctor. I have the test cyp script too.
The doctor mentioned cordyceps as a way to boost T with little risks. Is she wack?
So she wants me to eat fungi? bro damn
Anyone know good clinics other than Dr Komer in Ontario, Canada?