See these stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
So do metabolize T in a hyper fashion and need higher doses.
TRT does not increase prolactin, something else is going on. Prolactin can be released during orgasm and cuddling puppies and babies - so watch what you are doing and provide 48 hours buffer time.
Low thyroid function can rob your energy and not getting enough iodine can do that. Check overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures AM and mid-afternoon as per the thyroid basics sticky.
Not absorbing transdermal T is a symptom of low thyroid function.
Did you experience any head trauma? That can damage the pituitary.
You never had proper diagnostics. Should have checked LH/FSH before any TRT.
Doctors are the problem. If your testes were small and pulled up tight before TRT, that would be from low LH. On TRT that will probably happen unless you inject hCG.
Inject twice a week and always do labs half way between injections so differences in lab results are not lab timing artifacts.