Hello. I just turned 39 years old and I started TRT at 125 mg/week (just did my first injection). I've never taken anything even resembling PEDs in my life. For starters here were my 3 labs over the last two months:
1) Total = 406, Free = Lab Error (Labcorp)
2) Total = 492, Free = Lab Error (Labcorp)
3) Total = 534, Free = 58.6 (46-224), Bio available = 115.3 (110-575), SHBG = 43 (10-50) (Quest Diagnostic)
I won't post images of all the labs (unless requested), but here's the Quest Diagnostic: http://i.imgur.com/zi9AZ8u.jpg
At LabCorp, I was getting >50 for my free T two seperate times!. (Upper limit of their range being 25.) That's why I labeled those "lab error". The results made no sense, so that's why the doctor switched to Quest Diagnostic, which gave results that were more as expected, even though total T was a little higher. She even called LabCorp, and they said they never saw anything like it (total T so low, with free so high). So whatever.
My doc (anti-aging clinic) wanted me on HCG, but from what I researched I think long term HCG is a horrible idea. So I am only on Test Cyp (125 mg/week spread over two doses) and Anastrozole (.25 mg 2x/week). She prescribed me Clomid, saying it might help long term fertility. But I'm not taking it yet. I'm waiting until after the 6 week labs to get a baseline of what simply test+anastrozole do.
I wanted to start TRT to help me get some energy to tackle some life issues. Never married. Never been in a long term relationship. Not many friends, etc. (Although I do have a good career) I'm suspecting my T was probably low 300s from ages 25-35. I used to be sedentary and obese. But now I've been working out hard for the last 3 years, and it's helped a lot. (Just to eliminate ambiguity of "working out hard", after 3 years my Bench is 250x1, Squat 375x1, Deadlift 525x1) But I still have a lot of the low-T symptoms, and obviously the labs show me in the 400s to low 500s, which is well below average. My free/bioavailable T also looks pretty bad.
Now, if my life continues as is, I'm probably never going to have kids anyway. But if the TRT really gives me some drive, I can see it maybe happening. So that's the big catch-22.
This is my idea to maintain fertility, longer-term. Try cylcing TRT every 6 months to a year. My thinking is the body adapts to all kinds of stresses if they aren't too big. So we'll start with a medium stress. After my first six months, I go off and get back to natural production. I know it will be nasty and unpleasant, but this isn't heroin FFS. I can deal with it. Then after that, I go back on and cycle off only 1x per year. I think it is a very good guess that this has a much better chance of maintaining some fertility over the next 5 or 6 years than just staying on 100%. I'm not sure how long to cycle off, but I figure I just go back on TRT once my T-levels are naturally back in the 400-500 range for a couple weeks.
Any thoughts on this? Also, any thoughts on the doctor's idea to take Clomid long term while on TRT?
1) Total = 406, Free = Lab Error (Labcorp)
2) Total = 492, Free = Lab Error (Labcorp)
3) Total = 534, Free = 58.6 (46-224), Bio available = 115.3 (110-575), SHBG = 43 (10-50) (Quest Diagnostic)
I won't post images of all the labs (unless requested), but here's the Quest Diagnostic: http://i.imgur.com/zi9AZ8u.jpg
At LabCorp, I was getting >50 for my free T two seperate times!. (Upper limit of their range being 25.) That's why I labeled those "lab error". The results made no sense, so that's why the doctor switched to Quest Diagnostic, which gave results that were more as expected, even though total T was a little higher. She even called LabCorp, and they said they never saw anything like it (total T so low, with free so high). So whatever.
My doc (anti-aging clinic) wanted me on HCG, but from what I researched I think long term HCG is a horrible idea. So I am only on Test Cyp (125 mg/week spread over two doses) and Anastrozole (.25 mg 2x/week). She prescribed me Clomid, saying it might help long term fertility. But I'm not taking it yet. I'm waiting until after the 6 week labs to get a baseline of what simply test+anastrozole do.
I wanted to start TRT to help me get some energy to tackle some life issues. Never married. Never been in a long term relationship. Not many friends, etc. (Although I do have a good career) I'm suspecting my T was probably low 300s from ages 25-35. I used to be sedentary and obese. But now I've been working out hard for the last 3 years, and it's helped a lot. (Just to eliminate ambiguity of "working out hard", after 3 years my Bench is 250x1, Squat 375x1, Deadlift 525x1) But I still have a lot of the low-T symptoms, and obviously the labs show me in the 400s to low 500s, which is well below average. My free/bioavailable T also looks pretty bad.
Now, if my life continues as is, I'm probably never going to have kids anyway. But if the TRT really gives me some drive, I can see it maybe happening. So that's the big catch-22.
This is my idea to maintain fertility, longer-term. Try cylcing TRT every 6 months to a year. My thinking is the body adapts to all kinds of stresses if they aren't too big. So we'll start with a medium stress. After my first six months, I go off and get back to natural production. I know it will be nasty and unpleasant, but this isn't heroin FFS. I can deal with it. Then after that, I go back on and cycle off only 1x per year. I think it is a very good guess that this has a much better chance of maintaining some fertility over the next 5 or 6 years than just staying on 100%. I'm not sure how long to cycle off, but I figure I just go back on TRT once my T-levels are naturally back in the 400-500 range for a couple weeks.
Any thoughts on this? Also, any thoughts on the doctor's idea to take Clomid long term while on TRT?