Please list medications, Rx and OTC as well as supplements?
Are you using ibuprofen regularily?
Heart burn and heart burn meds?
Any occupational exposure to toxins?
Water supply safe?
You only use testosterone?
Nothing to control E2?
Please post labs with ranges?
Have you ever had a radio contrast dye to check blood flow through your heart? If so, how does that timeline fit with adverse kidney function meds?
There is no known issue with TRT and kidneys. If there was, young men would be afflicted.
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
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.