March 26-30. I thought that might be too weird so I wasn’t going to suggest it, haha. But yeah sounds good
Oh, I forgot to mention I dropped thyroid already. Couldn’t take the headaches, jittery and “out of it” feeling it gave me. I wanted to take it for a month or so to see what would happen but I just didn’t feel good on it. I did like the not being tired after lunch piece but that wasn’t enough to cancel out the negatives.
were you taking NDT?
It was a compounded T3/T4 equal to 1 grain of Armour
Weird would be if you find out I was an Endocrinologist this whole time posing as a normal guy and posted a call out thread. You owe me a beer if I’m not mistaken.
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Normal guy?
Haha, yes that would be weird. Your secret is safe with me. Free beer provided to tour guide
Might have a lead on a job, we’ll see. I went from sending a resume to someone at a company I’ve worked with before to having a call with HR to having their sales VP flying down to have lunch with me tomorrow in like 3 hours, so I’m pretty sure they’re interested. Pay would be about the same but gets me out of where I’m at now and opens some future doors after some time at the new place. We’ll see I guess. I don’t think they’re going to actually go through with it until corona virus fears chill out but it would at least give me an out sooner or later
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Well @dextermorgan at the rate the whole virus thing is going I might not make it down there after all. Guess we’ll see what happens.
Also, thread update. I gained about 20lbs when I started TRT, it seems to be slowly coming off and I feel like I look better. It’s probably some water weight but it’s weird to be on a higher dose and my weight be going down but I’m glad it is. Highest weight was 172lbs so I’m down about 4lbs. Nothing major and I’m not trying to lose weight but I’m not eating McDonald’s every day anymore either
I think you are canceling your whole trip so you don’t have to buy me that beer you owe me…
Congrats on the weight loss dude!
This whole virus thing is causing a worldiwide mess.My country is in lockdown now everything is closed but people are stupid and gathering at the superkarkets. And I think the global economic crisis that is approaching will be devastating
Yeah it’s turning into a mess for sure. My office let me work from home finally which is probably some kind of signal of an upcoming apocalypse.
It hasn’t gotten to that level here. People are finally starting to realize it’s more about not spreading it to old/young people than it is about us. The chances of me dying from it are super low. Obviously that’s a different story for my 65 year old dad.
I just wish I had more cash right now so I could buy even more on the way down. I’m Still buying as much as I can on the way down. It’ll come back up sooner or later and will be worth a lot more one day
Haha, I mean I still have the tickets… read some stuff about New Orleans having issues controlling it because it all the tourists though so kind of scaring me off. Probably just going to play it by ear. If it calms down by then we’ll still go. Otherwise it’ll get pushed out to the fall probably
Thanks. It’s honestly not really a strict goal or anything since I’m not exactly obese anyways but is nice to see it going the other way finally since I gained so much so quickly after starting TRT
They closed all bars today for the foreseeable future.
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Not much to update so I haven’t been updating very often. 2 more weeks have gone by.
I’m still steady at 210mg/week, nothing else other than some vitamin D when I remember. Still feel good sexual symptoms wise. Good for 4-5x a week right now so that’s been good. I still don’t feel 100% but I’m not far from it.
My back acne is getting to be a bit much so I’m hoping buying one of those shower back scrubber things helps with that. Otherwise I’m going to start getting scars on my back I’m afraid.
I’m supposed to start HCG next month so not looking forward to that.
Should I lower my T dose at all since HCG should increase my T levels higher than they are now? I am really worried about the acne side of things and screwing up the improvements I’ve been enjoying the last couple of months, but I also don’t want to change two things at once. I’ve never stayed on HCG long enough to give it a real chance, so maybe after the initial 6-8 week adjustment period it won’t be so bad.
Guess I’m about to find out. I haven’t decided exactly when I’m going to start HCG, I think mid to late April though.
What’s holding you back from feeling 100% you think?
Honestly, when I get to that point I’d probably just add HCG on top of whatever I’m currently running for trt.
I think lack of exercise/working out is probably the issue. I’ve never really gotten the super confident/give no f’s feeling that a lot of people report and that’s something I’d really, really like to have.
My diet isn’t great either but isn’t horrible (most of the time). I always think it’s bad until I see what most people eat, haha. I do fast food a few times a week for lunch but usually eat decent for dinner and on the weekends
But yeah, probably the exercise part. I’ve just been slacking on getting started. I’m doing 6:30am to 6:30pm days during the week already for work so it sucks to add another hour or whatever to that to fit in working out. Sooner or later I will though just to see if it helps
I’ll probably start with just adding HCG and see what happens… hopefully the extra e2 from HCG won’t matter as much when my T is already up there pretty high. We shall see I guess.
Your SHBG might suck up a lot of it anyways. I haven’t quite figured out the math with t/e2 ratios lol.
I don’t know if my personality changed perse. I had depression way before finasteride or trt so I wasn’t expecting to be bullet proof.
I’ve honestly thought about doing 500mg/week for a couple of months just to see if it helps with my attitude lol. I’m way too non confrontational almost all of the time but don’t want to be a crazy person either. It really gets old feeling walked all over after the fact but not wanting to be an ass about anything at the time. Over and over and over.
Yeah my SHBG is still relatively high. I think it was 70 something last time I checked? I can’t even remember anymore to be honest. Started at 150+ though so I suppose that’s a little closer to normal.
For the whole ratio thing people typically use total T / E2. So 1500 / 60 would be 25:1. Something like 15 to 25:1 is where people seem to be good at.
In reality we should probably be coming up with a ratio that uses free T instead of total T but for whatever reason that hasn’t really caught on yet so I’m not sure what ratio we’d be expecting
Same exact thing here. I’m the peacekeeper. The guy that changes so other’s done have to. The guy that bites his tongue rather than fight. I often feel walked over too because of this. That said, I think the world needs people like us to keep things civil, even if it is at our expense sometimes. But, yeah, I’ve had the same thought…
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