Having a Real Hard Time

AST/ALT indicate liver issues and liver may not be able to clear E2 from blood properly. Meanwhile your T dose appears too high and FT–>E2 probably too high.

FT needs to be tested.

Your meds might be affecting liver.

Glucose=110 too high.
Was this fasting lab work?
Test A1C to eval diabetes

When injecting once a week, your lab work is mostly determined by lab timing and changes can be swamped by timing changes. You need steady T levels. You need to manage E2 with anastrozole and that also requires steady T levels.

your docs are idiots

Inject 100mg T twice a week
take 1mg anastrozole at time of injections
250iu hCG SC EOD

Target is E2=22pg/ml

Your heart burn can be from a hiatal hernia caused by abdominal fat. Your heart burn meds might be causing mineral deficiencies and low B-12 from low stomach acid.

Food or leg cramps? Magnesium deficiency.

Have you been using iodized salt to support thyroid hormone production? Thyroid critical to weight gain/loss.


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.

KSman is simply a regular member on this site. Nothing more other than highly active.

I can be a bit abrupt in my replies and recommendations. I have a lot of ground to cover as this forum has become much more active in the last two years. I can’t follow threads that go deep over time. You need to respond to all of my points and requests as soon as possible before you fall off of my radar. The worse problems are guys who ignore issues re thyroid, body temperatures, history of iodized salt. Please do not piss people off saying that lab results are normal, we need lab number and ranges.

The value that you get out of this process and forum depends on your effort and performance. The bulk of your learning is reading/studying the suggested stickies.

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