What was protocol for the lab work? List T, AI and hCG
Sounds like your T was 90mg for the lab work.
You report changes, but I can’t tell how that related to dose changes.
For lab work in september I was on 99mg T/1mg adex/HGG per week, taking m/w/f. After labs went up on T to 120 mg week, adex up to 1.25 mg week, and same HCG. After a few weeks of not feeling better, I went up on adex to 1.5 mg week, and dropped T to 110mg a week. I was thinking maybe the E was still high. Currently feel much better with energy, brain fog, zest for life etc… Then only problem is my weight has gone up. I am getting fat. Not muscle, but fat. I cant control my eating, and it is at a time when I am working out far less than october (finished my last tri of the year, now in off season).
Drop hCG for a short period of time and see if that changes appetite.
When I started TRT, I had a constant hunger. I found that it was hunger for protein. I could have a double scoop whey protein shake and not have hunger for hours. So that is another thing to investigate.
So you had E2=53 with 99mg T and 1mg/week anastrozole. That by itself does not make any sense. Are you taking anything that would affect your liver? Got ALT/AST data?
Based on that, new dose of AI would be 1.0 x (53/22) X (110/99), but that still does not seem right, something else is not right. And that could be hCG leading to too much ITT and T–>E2 inside the testes. If so, stopping hCG for a while would lower E2 [and then you do not know how to dose AI].
Last liver panel was a few years ago but normal. No reason should be low. I think your right about the protein. I need to get retested but didn’t want to spend the money. What do you think about dropping hog and backing off on Alex to 1.25 then getting test in 3 weeks? Would I add this back on eventually? Would my t level drop without the HCG?
The amount of T created from hCG is highly variable, depending on age [of testes] and one’s degree of primary. Yes, T levels would drop to some extent. If you do this and E2 drops a lot, then we have learned something important.