A quick intro: I’m a few weeks away from turning 45. I’m five foot eight inches, 202lbs, 18%bf. Ive been lifting almost 3 years. When I started, I was 176lbs and 22%bf. Ive been lurking around here for about a year.
For what its worth, some anecdotal results of my journey: Ive been on TRT for about two and one half years. My initial complaint to my doc was extreme tiredness, depression, low libido and ED. I also told him that I snore heavily and that my wife thought I sometimes stopped breathing during the night.
Long story short: I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea after a sleep study (my blood oxygen was 65% at times and I would stop breathing as much as 90 times per hour). I never achieved REM sleep. Secondly, I was diagnosed as hypo gonadal; my T was 236. I was devastated by the results but at least I had an explanation for the way I felt.
I was put on Androgel (4 pumps daily) and I started using a CPAP machine. Within two weeks I started feeling better and I could stay up past 8:00 pm without a problem. The ED and low libido was also improving a bit. At three months, I was retested and Androgel dose was increased to 8 pumps daily and a follow-up appointment was made for six months later.
Within a few weeks of the increased Androgel dose, I started to feel really good; no more depressed feelings, the ED was gone and I was a raging sex maniac. The wife and I were like a couple of teenagers and we had sex every day and sometimes more than once a day.
After 6 months, I got retested and went for my follow-up. My T shot up to 2930! My Doc asked me how I felt and I told him never better. Needless to say, he changed my dose back to 4 pumps because such a high level was not good either. I was retested one month later and it was down to 746. I scheduled a follow-up six months later and this time my T was down to 501. At that appointment I told him that I didn’t feel good anymore, my ED had returned, I had virtually no semen, and had what seemed to be a loss of sensation in my penis.
He referred me to an endocrinologist and tests were run for total test, free test, LH, FSH, E2, thyroid, etc. According to him, all my levels were within normal range and I was sent home and told to continue doing what I was doing.
A few months later I saw my doc again and complained about my ED, low libido, decreased sensation and depression. I was then referred to an urologist. Again more tests and everything was within normal range. My prostate and everything else was physically OK. He told me that perhaps it was all in my head. He prescribed Levitra and sent me on my way.
On three occasions I took the Levitra and psyched myself up for a night of fun. On all three occasions, I ended up with a mild headache and no real desire for sex. Needless to say, I was at my wits end.
Fast forward to now: Ive lost all faith in the local doctors and I decided to take matters into my own hands. I had intended to self prescribe HGH and I read up on the accepted protocols. I found an internet site to order HGH but when I tried ordering, I had difficultly because the transaction amount exceed their max daily dollar amount. I got kind of pissed and concerned about the whole thing so I decided to get some research peptides instead. I ordered CJC 1295 and GHRP 6.
On Tuesday is injected 100mcg of each in the morning before work. I honestly didn’t feel any different all day but that night, I work up 2 times during the night and realized I had some wood going. In the morning, I again woke up with wood; coincidence?
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I again injected 100mcg of each before work. For most of the day I was in a generally better mood and at night I again noticed some spontaneous wood going on and I woke up that way too. On Saturday morning, the sexual slump ended and I feel like I haven’t felt in nearly eight months; coincidence again?
Other than the CJC 1295 and GHRP 6, the only thing I have changed is an increased dose of L-Arginine / Ornithine. I was taking 2, 2000 mg capsules once per day and I am now taking 2, 2000 mg caps 3 times a day (morning, noon and evening) for a total of 6000 mg.
Its been less than a week but so far it is like night and day. Ill post again and let you know how it’s going. If some of you have had a similar experience to mine and you’re not making any progress with you doctors, I’d definitely recommend trying CJC 1295 along with GHRP 6. HGH may work better but in my case, it was just easier to get the peptides.