I’ve been on TRT since I was 17 after hard kick to the nuts in sports. Just a GP who had no knowledge of hormone replacement HPTA or anything like that.after 5 years of taking weekly injections, I began looking at coming off trt after I hit scar tissue and blood went everywhere (not the 1st time). My new Doctor in San Diego was very open at attempting a protocol using HCG, Clomid, And Arimidex. Using her dosages, weekly blood work, and weekly meetings talking with each other, my T did rise. However, after a year and a half of that therapy, my levels had only increased from 118ng/dl to 270. I went on a 2 week vacation and could not take my therapy and it had dropped back to 120’s. So, i came off of TRT for about 1.5 years and felt miserable the entire time.
I finally decided to get back on TRT and have since felt astronomically better about life. Energy, sex drive, the whole 9. If you are looking at getting off TRT, this is my experience, and my suggestion to you, stay on unless medically necessary. If you’d like more details, comment your questions and I would be happy to answer.
self inject 50mg T twice a week, subq, #29 1/2" 0.5ml insulin syringe
0.5mg anastrozole at time of T injections
250iu hCG subq EOD #31 5/16" 0.5 or 1/3 ml insulin syringe
Adjust anastrozole dose to get near E2=22pg/ml
You injected T without hCG or clomid for 5 years?
How small are your testes? Are you still fertile?
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.
KSman is simply a regular member on this site. Nothing more other than highly active.
I can be a bit abrupt in my replies and recommendations. I have a lot of ground to cover as this forum has become much more active in the last two years. I can’t follow threads that go deep over time. You need to respond to all of my points and requests as soon as possible before you fall off of my radar. The worse problems are guys who ignore issues re thyroid, body temperatures, history of iodized salt. Please do not piss people off saying that lab results are normal, we need lab number and ranges.
The value that you get out of this process and forum depends on your effort and performance. The bulk of your learning is reading/studying the suggested stickies.