By your post, I am going to assume you are on TESTOPEL or some locally compounded pellet that is both ineffective and under strength. NO ONE should be inserting 21 pellets – ESPECIALLY every 3 months. That is ludicrous.
Your doctor must be using 25- or 50-mg pellets. That is the only explanation. And if he is inserting 21 of those, he is likely NOT a pellet user himself and doesn’t know what he is doing, which is probably why you had an extrusion – too many pellets and not inserted deeply enough under the skin.
I am the only vocal pellet user on this forum. I use BioTE pellets. 21 pellets would add over 4000 to my current T … so I can not comprehend the low-dose pellets that your doctor must be using … I’m 2 years in to pellet use btw.
And insertion every 3 months is only for problem patients (like I was). Nothing in your labs indicates problems.
Your SHBG is NOT that high; higher than many; but NOT that high.
You should not have sensitivity to the insertion site after 7-10 days of healing. But then I have never had a serving spoon of rice size granules inserted in my ass.
You even admitted that it was working
the pellets started to do the job! Sleeping good, brain fog down, much better sleep, losing body fat, muscle gains without even killing myself in the gym and libido returned to a ok level.
Something is not right here.
Can you attach your pellet documentation? A qualified doctor should be giving you an insertion summary telling you how many pellets were inserted, at what strength. Your T numbers are unbelievable.
Systemlord has spoken, but has said nothing new. I’m interested to see if his love-affair with Defy changes now that Defy is beginning to prescribe privately compounded testosterone pellets. Oh, the horror.