Please read these stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
So you can do battle with the idiots.
- Advice for new guys
- Things that damage your hormones
- Protocol for injections
- Finding a TRT doc
Please post your labs in list format, less obscure and with lab ranges.
Your LH/FSH should go to zero, waste if time+$ to test on TRT.
Suggest:
- 50mg T cyp/eth twice a week
- 0.5mg anastrozole at time of injections
- 250iu hCG SC EOD
- use #29 1/2" 0.5ml insulin syringes
- get Relion house brand at Walmart/SAMs, ~$14 per 100
- inject SC over upper leg or IM in vastus lateralis
Thyroid:
test TSH, fT3, fT4 [please not T3, T4]
check oral body temperatures as per thyroid basics sticky, this is best overall measure of overall thyroid function
You need iodized salt in diet to support thyroid function.
After those injuries, you should check all major hormones mediated by hypothalamus and pituitary:
thyroid - as above
adrenals - AM cortisol, at 8AM please
IGF-1 to check GH production
LH/FSH was probably low
Feeling right will require that T levels be good, E2 near 22pg/ml, decent thyroid function and good cortisol levels.
Elevated E2 on TRT can make guys short tempered and takes away energy, libido and mood.