I need some advice please. I was diagnosed with a 4mm prolactinoma benign tumour on my pituitary gland in 2014 and my testosterone levels have been low since about 7. My previous endocrinologist at Derriford Hospital plymouth prescribed me tostran but after 3 months and more blood tests my test levels had dropped even further and me made me stop taking it immediately which left me having uncontrollable feelings of suicidal tendencies which was harsh. As the years have gone by I’ve gained more and more fat, belly fat most, lost muscle, can now only use gym twice a week as any more I can’t recover from.
My new endocrinologist wants me to go back on tostran but can’t comment on how I would feel mentally or how to control that. Saw dietician at Derriford who couldn’t offer me any advice on testosterone boosting food or lifestyle. Feel like I’m 70+ not 41. Read articles saying when on trt I should have blood tests every 8 weeks to check things over so I don’t have a stroke and that I should give blood frequently?
Please help
Get on injections dude. Not a lot of success stories here with gels. I realize we are in a microcosm here but there is much more success with shots over gels.
Once you’re stable you won’t need them anywhere close to that often and not many people have to give blood on TRT doses. That’s not common.
I’m only required to do blood tests every 6 months now…
Switch to injections. Gel isn’t strong enough. Thread over.
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Your doctor is not on the cutting edge, tropicals generally offer poor results only getting enough exogenous testosterone to shut down your natural production and leave you with levels lower than pre-TRT. TRT doesn’t cause strokes and heart attacks in otherwise healthy people with no other medical problems or medical conditions that predispose them to clotting.
There is a lot of conflicting data out there and poorly done studies with obvious flaws, you take a group of old men 65+ years or older who have had low testosterone for decades and there is going to be a few men having heart attacks and strokes.
The average doctors is clueless, injectable testosterone is the safest version of TRT, it gets high marks for safety. As a previous poster said, you need injectable testosterone cypionate and a doctor that is on the cutting edge because you’re won’t hear many success stories of men using tropicals.
Doctors with titles like “head of endocrinology” at some prestigious hospital doesn’t mean anything in the TRT world, it’s in no way a guarantee your doctor will be a knowledgeable TRT doctor. You only need to give blood is hematocrit is 54% or higher, but you can mitigate hematocrit by injecting smaller doses more frequently or just lowering the dosage, it’s works the majority of the time.
Labs are mandatory every 6 months, not every 8 weeks.