Hi, I’m 34 yo and I’ve been on TRT for about 7-8 years. I just got an email last night from the doc whose been prescribing me the whole time saying that his license has been revoked and he has to cease practicing immediately. This has left me in a bind.
Can anyone recommend a good open minded TRT doc in Brisbane or nearby that won’t force me to go through some bullshit, like coming off test for 6 months, to prove I really need it?
Adrian Zentner in Perth, Brisbane.
Thanks mate, I’ll send him a message.
I recommend Zentner as well, I think he goes to brissy once every 2 months and Sydney once a month
How has the trt process gone for you so far, many ups and downs?
@unreal24278 is in Australia and may know someone
Thanks man.
To be honest TRT fixed a lot of issues for me, like energy and depression, but libido and ED have always been hit and miss.
This year I really took ownership of my TRT for the first time. I’ve dropped my dosage down to 105mg per week (dosed @ 30mg EOD) from about 160mg I was doing before. This allowed me to drop the AI which I think was making it too hard to obtain consistent E2 levels. I am doing a very small dose of HCG @ 100iu EOD just to preserve function.
Since dropping the AI my SHBG has gone up, but is now mid range instead of bottom of the range. This may give me some room to up the T dose slightly, but I’ll wait till my next blood test and see where my levels are at.
Overall I think this is a better system. The few times I have succumbed to temptation and taken too much test, ED and sexual functioning got worse, not better. This year I’ve also given up looking at pornography after years of addiction, but that’s another story.
Being so young like myself, are kids on the horizon?
Good to hear that you are in control, from what I understand an ai can mess things up and the latest studies are saying to avoid ai and ride it out.
Ah good ol pornography, I tried to stop watching it, I lasted 3 days but my partner gave birth so for now I really need it
Congratulations man. I used to think I wasn’t interested in kids, but I’ve been dating a woman for the past year who I think could be the one. She is only 23 so there’s no rush, but she definitely wants kids one day.
When the time comes I plan to drop down my test dose and run a higher hcg / fsh combination, and if that doesn’t work I’ll just come off for as long as it takes.
Have you heard of fsh being used in Australia?
FSH is available. I would only use it if I was able to get it at the PBS price ($39 per 900iu) which I would hope you would be able to if using it for fertility purposes. At a dose of 75iu EOD that I have seen used effectively in a study, this works out at less than $2 per day.
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/61407/gonal-f-900iu-multi-dose-pen-cartridge-1-5ml
The odds of getting it pbs is slim to none. If you think it’s possible to get it under pbs, how would you approach it?
To be honest I hadn’t looked that far into it. Perhaps I’ll bring it up with Dr Zentner if I can get in to see him.
Worst case scenario, I’ll have to come off altogether, and if it comes down to having to do IVF or IUI then I guess that’s what we’ll do (my partner and I have discussed that this is a possibility). But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.