I exercise 3-4 days per week, cut carbs out of my diet and eating lots of veggies, chicken and steak. The carbs was spiking glucose which I could see on the monitoring device.
The further I get from those T injections, the easier it is to urinate. If I eat urination is significantly reduced for several hours. If I drink water I bloat in stomach and I think it’s because it has nowhere to go.
Been having lots of problems with potassium, iron, vitamin C & D.
Part of the reason for my A1C getting worse is stopping TRT, I’m losing muscle and the ability to lose weight the more time passes.
I’m saving up money, selling stuff to afford to fly to see Dr. Rob Kominiarek if the urologist is unable to figure out my urination issues that definitely seem affected by testosterone.
I’m not hugely overweight, I’m 6’ , 235 pounds. The doctors I’m dealing with are Kaiser doctors, I don’t think I need to say anymore. I’m not trying to diagnose myself, I need information to be able to vet my doctors because a lot of them have made statements that are just plain wrong and are out of touch with medicine as it evolves.
I’m losing muscle, trust me TRT will help me and am dead without it. The weight isn’t going to come off at 91 ng/dL, the A1C will not decrease without TRT.
Sometimes, or actually most of the times when you speak about yourself you confuse me,
Anyhow, just another idea.
If you are that sensitive to T why don’t you further decrease your dose? Your natural levels are a 100 ng/dL, you know that with 7 mg T you can get to something like 450, but you seem to not tolerate it. The logic conclusion would be to try something that brings you in between and if you tolerate you can up your dose anytime. So go on like 3 to 4 mg daily which will at least improve your situation with regards to T a bit; I guess you would be around 200 ng/dL.
I mentioned it already once. Go and buy some inositol. It improves glucose metabolism and reduces insulin resistance. As I know you like to investigate for your own here is a link to a recent article. Just go for it.
lastly, you still didn’t explain why insulin therapy wouldn’t be appropriate for you. You need to get glucose under control. If insulin sensitizing drugs don’t work that’s the standard approach.
Excellent choice. He is a great doctor and he can solve cases like yours. When you go to him forget about all the other doctors, forget for a while your skepticism towards doctors, stop seeking another opinion, stop trying to figure it out on your own and most importantly forget about the forum and trust the guy for a few months at least.
In my opinion there is nothing worse than taking advice from a few doctors at the same time because everyone has different approach, especially the ones that know what they are doing. The important thing is to be able to take you where you want to be no matter the approach
This is considered clinically heavy enough to diagnose obesity… so yes it’s hugely overweight (albeit not morbidly obese)
It will with biguanide use (without trt), you’re not dead without trt, but you do dedicate an awful lot of you’re life too the concept of TRT… that’s fine if it’s youre hobby… but trt isn’t a miracle cure and for some (such as yourself) it can aggravate preexisting conditions… it isn’t harmless, like all medications it comes with a set of risks
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I apologise if I’m coming off as a dick here… but based on you’re previous posts (occasionally you’ll post something dramatic like “well I’ve got heart failure/dialated cardiomyopathy/kidney failure” and then delete the post immediately after posting… this is textbook anxiety. The meticulous protocols, the focusing on TRT and solely TRT as the be all end all, prime savior is fairly OCD in nature
It’d be due to testosterones effect on adrenal functioning… cortisol increases GFR, potassium excretion
But for this to happen from injecting 6mg test c/e once (perhaps increasing TT 20ng/dl from baseline)… either placebo/anxiety making one focus on issues that are already there prior OR his body is SO sensitive to any change due to his pronounced ill health/numerous conditions being aggravated when any kind of exogenous variable is introduced. I think you’ll find just about any medication will give this guy issues in his current state (and the effects will be a combination of placebo and real).
CNS dysfunction is an absolute bitch to deal with, can induce neuropathic pain, many of the symptoms op is describing… however I don’t think this is the sole case, merely a contributor, as he has mentioned having issues with electrolyte/vitamin balance
I did 7mg before without these problems for several weeks, then I started slowly having problems similar to the problem I’m having now, lack of urination. I then switch to an EOD protocol and things got worse.
I’ve tried inositol and even berberine, neither had any effect on glucose levels.
My doctor mentioned insulin therapy, but I’m confused because I’m making insulin, so how does more improve insulin resistance?
There was a time where I thought I had heart problems, I convince myself of it. The symptoms fit the bill, but when I posted it I felt as though I was jumping the gun and deleted it. I realise I was doing more harm than good self diagnosing.
I took it for more than 90 days. I had tried glipizide and strangely it crushed my potassium levels within 24 hours, the drug stopped working to lower glucose within 24 hours. It’s like my body is fighting any attempt to decrease glucose or improve diabetes.
I never get sick either, I can be around sick people and not have to worry.
Not saying I don’t believe you either, and I agree - BMI is bullshit, I was referring to being over 30% BF. Height and weight tell nothing about health, with a few exceptions of course
I’m not saying I’m lean, but weight doesn’t mean much on a lifter. On top of the muscle, you are running around with much denser bones. At least I am, I had a scan that says so.
Did you get the right one? You want to take D chiro inositol. Sorry if I haven’t been specific enough.
It gets you out of the vicious cycle - high glucose levels - further decreased insulin sensitivity - even higher glucose levels etc
‚ Glycemic treatment should be stepwise with swift introduction of successive interventions after treatment failure (i.e., A1C ≥7.0%). Insulin should be initiated when A1C is ≥7.0% after 2–3 months of dual oral therapy. The preferred regimen for insulin initiation in type 2 diabetes is once-daily basal insulin. In addition to timely initiation, rapid titration of the dose is indispensable for successful insulin therapy. Hypoglycemia risk is very low among type 2 diabetic patients just starting insulin therapy, making NPH insulin the most cost-effective drug.‘