Does anyone know of a good HRT doctor in Sacramento, CA or anywhere near that area? I will be returning there for summer, and can’t find a good doctor in Spokane, WA where I currently go to school. The Bay area might work as well.
Mind you I’m 20 years old, and have been unresponsive to HCG and Axiron, both separately. Looking for someone who would prescribe Test+Anti E+Hcg possibly.
Thanks.
-age: 20 years old
-height: 5’8"
-waist: 30
-weight: 175
-describe body and facial hair: normal facial and body hair
-describe where you carry fat and how changed: I’ve been carrying fat around my hips and legs for a few years now, upper body is fairly lean
-health conditions, symptoms [history]: low testosterone, diagnosed one year ago, high cortisol, low natural killer cells, low platelets, high eosoniphils, high Epstein-Barr marker
-Rx and OTC drugs, any hair loss drugs or prostate drugs ever: took HCG for a few months but levels only slightly improved, took axiron for 3 months and testosterone dipped to pre-baseline levels
-describe diet [some create substantial damage with starvation diets]: 3000 calories to maintain weight, fairly balanced diet, 1g/lb protein, .45g/lb fat, rest is carbs
-describe training [some ruin there hormones by over training]: 3 day split with upper/lower/upper
-testes ache, ever, with a fever?: no
-how have morning wood and nocturnal erections changed: occur less frequently than in my earlier teenage years
Other notable things:
Estradiol is normal
Cortisol is through the roof
Low Platelets, High Eosoniphils
Baseline Test is 250-350. It went down to 120 on Axiron, and up to 550 on HCG.
DHEA-S, Pregneglone, lots of other markers seem to be fine. Been through 2 endocrinologists and 2 naturopaths (one was ND/MD who put me on HCG). He was the last person I saw for this and said next step is to get on some injected test.
I have an appointment with a doctor soon, was given his name from a compounding pharmacy, but here are my labs. I checked with my insurance and he’s covered and they would cover test cyp, anastrozole, and HCG.
These are my most current labs, it was while I was still on HCG. I don’t have access to all my older labs from the past year because they are back home and I’m away at college.
Got pneumonia and strep both in my first year of college. But got my tonsils out the following summer and stopped getting throat infections, which were about every other month.
Just thought I’d add that a food allergy IgG test came back from my doctor and it said I should definitely avoid egg and gluten. I know these IgG testing are controversial and even invalid, but the doctor pushed it and it wouldn’t hurt me to cut these foods out anyways.
See a new doc in a week and a half, going to bring Dr. Crisler’s protocol to him and maybe ask about ALT/AST lab work. Anything else I should ask him?
Seems like your cortisol is through the roof and you’ve got food problems. Sounds like your immune system is compromised too.
If I were you, I’d try to get back to a naturopath/integrative type doctor to work on your cortisol and food issues. Endos are unlikely to be much help for that. You already saw that increased T via HCG doesn’t make you feel better. Even if T did make you feel better, it be temporary as the other problems persist.
What was your HCG dose?
What are your morning temps?
How is your sleep? How many hours? What time to bed?
How is your digestion? Regular? Normal stools?
[quote]nomadic wrote:
Seems like your cortisol is through the roof and you’ve got food problems. Sounds like your immune system is compromised too.
If I were you, I’d try to get back to a naturopath/integrative type doctor to work on your cortisol and food issues. Endos are unlikely to be much help for that. You already saw that increased T via HCG doesn’t make you feel better. Even if T did make you feel better, it be temporary as the other problems persist.
What was your HCG dose?
What are your morning temps?
How is your sleep? How many hours? What time to bed?
How is your digestion? Regular? Normal stools?[/quote]
I don’t remember my HCG dose. Just remember that I took it biweekly. I did get a lot of bloat the 2 days after the injection so I’m wondering if it wasn’t as effective due to conversion to estrogen.
Haven’t take my morning temps, don’t have a thermometer… why is this important?
I get 8 hours of sleep a night which is pretty good for college. Started getting nocturia when all these problems started, other than that sleep is fine.
Digestion hasn’t been well from a young age. Constipation has been the norm for me. Had bad IBS when I was drinking coffee multiple times a day but was glad to at least have regularity from that. But since stopping that, very irregular.
Met with my new integrative MD on Thursday. He had all my documents from my other doctors, so I guess the HCG dose I had been on was as high as 2500iu 2x a week I believe.
The MD ordered some new labs to establish a baseline and is going to read Dr. Crisler’s protocol between now and when I see him next.
He plans to prescribe me Test cyp and HCG if my test levels are the same as they have been, both of which are covered by my insurance.
He’ll prescribe an AI if need be.
Does this sound like I’m going about this the right way? I’ve been a small fortune trying to find the cause of my low T levels the past year, and no doc has really had a clue as to why. I’m just ready to get my prescription and start feeling like a normal college student.
6 week labs came back, only have test and free test numbers, getting retested for test, e2, and cortisol in a week:
total test: 478 ng/dl
free test: 11.5 (8.3-26.5)
This is on 50mg test cyp twice a week, not the 100mg twice a week I originally posted. I read the label incorrectly.
The draw for this lab was a day after my 2nd injection day of the week, and I had to skip that injection (lab closed on inject day, 4th of july) so these labs reflect a number that is slightly lower than what I’d normally be at pre-injection. Back on my regular dosing schedule though, and based on my e2 levels going to up the dose or add AI.