20 y/o with Severe Problems on TRT

Thank you for the detailed post.

Your testes have not been working properly.
Are you very tall?

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Your thyroid is a mess.
TSH should be near 1.0, lab ranges are useless.
May be from not using iodized salt.
Please read the thyroid basics sticky.
Evaluate your overall thyroid function via last paragraph in this post.

We do get a lot of guys your age with low T from various reasons.

Please get your semen checked to see if you are fertile now.
Do this as soon as possible, because TRT is shutting down your testes.
If semen looks OK, you need to inject 250iu hCG subq EOD/E2D to preserve your testes and fertility. If you cannot get that, 20mg Nolvadex oral EOD, or 25mg Clomid EOD.

Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman

  • advice for new guys - need more info about you
  • things that damage your hormones
  • protocol for injections
  • finding a TRT doc

Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.

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