Funny you mention beer and feeling good. Alcohol doesn’t sit right anymore like it used to for me, for a while now.
I been knocking a few back each night this week… feels good again… Especially the summer… nothing like a few nice cold ones after a hot day at work.
I’m irriable in the mornings again and short dealing with people… definitely back to normal. lol
Day 28. My how time flies.
For the most part feel normal, brain function is as good as it gets. Loss of libido and overall interest in woman, and feeling a bit down/unmotivated, sleep is pretty good. Thats all to report, ole one eye still rises to the occasion. I will probably resume enclomiphene tomorrow and take it eod for another week.
Interesting. I feel like I always had high test levels through anecdotal evidence and I got tested in my early 30’s but came back high natural. I always did well cognitively. Math and science guy, college was boring. At least undergrad. Never understood class when you could just read the book and scored 137 on an IQ test is psychology 101. Hungover and maybe could’ve done better.
I was always extremely competitive to the point it was possibly more detrimental than helpful in many cases, and competition drove me. It still does to a degree.
Test waned a little over the years, I recently found a doc who takes a “mental wellness” exam (a layup to self-diagnose low t symptoms on medical documentation) in to account as heavily as blood values and went back to about 850. Feels normal where I would say low energy, lack of motivation and a sort of numbness had set in instead.
I am horny all the time though, and always have been. Would make bad decisions for good sex any time.
Sometimes I wonder if severely hypogonadal men on test for the first time are experiencing a sense of puberty, at least mentally. Maybe they’ve always been low and never had the big surge. The behavior you describe feels like junior high at the onset of puberty to me, but over time you learn how to adapt and live with thoughts of sex and conquering everybody in the room (from athletic events to best performance elsewhere) constantly in the back of your mind.
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Got some pregnyl on the way. Wondering if I should lower my T dose or not to compensate.
I don’t think it’s testosterone itself but taking it externally has the effects I described.
You might my 20mg a week and get labs done at 4-6 weeks to see where your at. 150mg a week and hcg had me well over 1200 + 3-4 days after injection. Way to high if I did it again it would be like 80-90mg a week with hcg.
Day 30 – Great workout today, surpassed some lifts now than on TRT, no soreness from the gym either which is strange, guess I really did bounce back fast. Mood better today but overall down the past week, thinking of my ex-wife. It’s strange, when she moved of the apartment we once shared, I found out while I was on TRT and I had my reaction than, since coming off I felt like I relived it again and went through other feelings. Today I saw she had on an engagement ring already in one of her online pics… Mind you are divorce was just finalized a week ago.
Anyways… Appetite good, sleep has been OK, libido improving, no morning wood but no issues with erections. Next time I get off a bit early will get labs done, hopefully this week.
How did you feel though?
Like crap… hemoglobin skyrocketed… sauna almost made me pass out, walked out of it confused, a bit dizzy. and beat red. Sleep was very good while it was that high, but everything else was bad.
Strange in 2006 when I was in my mid 20s 500mg a week made me feel like god… how times have changed.
Day 31… libido is increasing, morning wood… like a piece of steel… playful and again looking at the womans. Only on ZMA at the moment, will continue with ZMA.
1 month and 1 week… Back to normal fully for the most part…
Gym motivation is still kinda missing, went MIA on TRT surprisingly but I do go 3 times a week still, overall motivation is a little down… but all else is good…
Completed 6 weeks since last injection.
Libido, motivation, morning wood, yesterday was the first day I got hard just from thinking of pounding out a woman so all seems back and normal. No difference in fat gain at all I think. Orgasms definitely increasing in velocity lol…
The loss of motivation maybe even sight depression was the biggest thing I noticed the last 2 or so weeks. I also had some slight facial acne the past 2 weeks that has now cleared up, could have very well be high e2, I did get a bit emotional some days, its been at least 3 weeks since i last took arimidex, and that kinda coincides with what I felt following… maybe a little e2 rebound…Still on ZMA… No bloods yet, at this point not even sure it matters, I feel good.
How you feeling on the hcg?
Had my first injection Wednesday. Nothing particular yet to point out.
Last few days feeling a bit more emotional, sometimes anxious. But I think it would be confirmation bias if I attribute it to HCG.
I reduced my test dose from 160mg per week to 140mg. So interesting to see what the proper path is.
Labs on 80mg twice a week was 1172 TT, and 28 E2. Injection that day was due in the evening labs were done in the morning so close to trough but still 12 hours early more less.
Side note: for me sensitive vs non sensitive for E2 does make a big diff. As much as 20 points. Unless I am not converting as much as before, since I can only compare protocols but not both readings on one lab.
That short of breath, heavy palpitations, some brain fog feeling I used to associate with high E2 is back. Haven’t slept well the last 2 nights though.
How much HCG are you taking?
That was a shot of 500 units
Cool, sounds like you are in a similar place to me with the reintroducing HCG experiment
I was thinking of going 1000 units per week. 500 twice a week. Not so sure now.
Im on a 1000iu weekly, but split into daily doses. Just to see if it means I dont require a microdose of AI