Hello, guys. Started TRT 10 weeks ago. This is my pre-TRT and 10-week in bloodwork.
My protocol is 120mg/wk test cyp along with 250ui EOD of HCG (testes size are hit or miss). I do it monday AM and thursday PM sub-q into the VG. Bloods were drawn thursday AM.
I also run 50mg ed proviron, 5mg ED tadalafil as well as thyroid medication (which seems to have normalized my levels)
In the meantime I hit the gym regularly and fixed my diet. Managed to drop from 19 to 15% BF. It’s clearly visible I gained muscle and lost fat.
I feel that most of my issues were solved, but I’m not quite there yet. Libido is so-so, but I get morning wood every day, and erections are solid.
Red and white blood cells within range, almost no change. Couldn’t test pregnenolone because insurance won’t cover and it’s very expensive.
I hope to get suggestions on protocol/dosage etc considering my bloodwork. Is prolactin hindering my libido (I took cabergoline once and it worked, but as soon as I stopped, it came back)? Shouldn’t SHBG be lower?
Holy crap that DHT level. Weird that you don’t have an insane libido.
About the prolactin, did you have sex or masturbate the day before the blood test? That can effect the result.
I had sex the day before, and my prolactin was almost double what the top range number is.
After that it has been measured multiple times and always been well within the range.
There is no way to determine if your thyroid is optimized only testing for TSH. The Free T3 is the active stuff and only way to determine thyroid treatment success.
You should talk to your doctor about dosage increase because you are converting more T4 → RT3 than the Free T3 which isn’t even midrange.
The HCG might be the cause for lower libido as I have heard many other accounts of guys stopping the HCG only to be rewarded with a higher libido, not in every case but in most.
You don’t want SHBG lower, be glad it’s where it is.
So, I just came back from my doc and after 5 months of TRT (current protocol 150mg/wk EOD subq and 250ui HCG EOD) he wants me to do a “mini-pct” with clomid and HCG for 3-4 weeks, then get back on Test cyp, and then, after a while, drop altogether.
I’m really unsure now because I never heard about this mini-pct “to reset your body” protocol that he intends to do, and most importantly, why would he want me stop the replacement therapy given that it improved a lot of symptoms and changed my life. What are the odds I’ll return to my old tired and libidoless self?
