I have been on and off a couple of times now, I have switched product and dosage several times. I currently run Sustanon one shot every two weeks. That puts me at 500 more or less at trough (When they say you are supposed to measure, 489 last lab) on a range of300 to 900 at this lab (I think, it might be 300-1000 but I don't have the results handy and am too lazy to look). I have run as high as 1000-1100 at the same lab on other protocols. I actually feel much better where I am now than I did at 1000. The main difference between TRT and not has been work capacity as far as the gym goes. I can get 5 reps where I would have hit 3 with low T, and I can push things enough to get sore muscles which I never got before TRT.mbasic wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 5:16 am
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Only thing I could hope for, is the last two months or so I opted for HCG shots....and had been doing those. Hopefully my natural production isn't total destroyed like shooting pure test, I was NOT happy with the ball shrinkage at all. The wife did not like it either, as was wondering why I did not opt for that from the beginning.
Apparently, or the story I'm told: the feds reclassified what kind of chemical HCG is a while back .... so its like a more 'dangerous' or higher regulated substance now. This has affected what phrama-companies are allowed/authorized to make it. Before, it was treated as more of a harmless substance, and there were many small companies who made it. NOW, only a handful (3 or 4) big globo-phrama companies make it. So its harder to come by and/or a lot more expensive. It seems like a really had to pull teeth to get them to use it on me.
Anyways, hopefully the drop isn't terrible.
I always had them lower dosage. I didn't want levels 1200 (trough) to 2000 (peak). I was like 700-1000. They wanted to see me at 1000 ....but when they pull bloods, that was at trough levels, so peak was naturally going to a lot higher.
My first point is I wasn't TRT-blasting.
My 2nd point, (lifting wise) I don't see that it helped all that much. So coming off may not be so extreme or whatever. I still haven't hit a couple recent PR numbers I had a year or so before all this.....when I was really working out hard with my son. And I wasn't doing terrible with 200 levels of test.....so maybe the cratering thats coming won't be so bad.
Sex drive and dick-function-wise wise? same thing. I was doing fine in those departments before and actually got worse (longer term) with TRT.
All that^ said, I do remember when I first started up, they were giving me my initial dosage, and I did notice a instant bump in gym strength, and some crazy shit wrt libido .... but that lasted only 2 or 3 weeks at best. The sex drive thing there was 1 noticeable week where is was crazy. Once my bloods came back, everything was dialed back. My own test generating probably got blunted too. The rest of my experience has been lack luster IMO. Its has helped with the depression; I figure this is much better option than SSRIs or something.... I hate anything phrama.
Wife came to workout with me (she did Stairmaster whole time), so I was kind pressured to wrap things up quickly at the end.
At the beginning of this, there was a half three-quarter naked girl working out in the smith machine which was close to me .... which was weird/awkward. Basically, the most naked girl I have seen at a gym that I remember. She was 35-40, and really shouldn't be THAT naked (didn't have the body for it at all; was overly tan; basically body dysmorphia).
The HCG will make a big difference for you, it means you have natural production going already so it's just a matter of the feedback loop kicking in which may be quick. I didn't get much shrinkage, but they did get weird for a while and now they are normal feeling again. You should be fairly smooth, honestly. You might even like a slightly lower test level. I'm sure a serious dose that kicks me up to a test level of several thousand feels awesome, but the difference between 600 and 1000 was just a number on paper.
I feel you on the gym hoochie too, there was a girl in the gym yesterday wearing shorts that offered a clear and distinct outline of everything below the waist. They were kinda graphic, and she was maybe 20 but probably 18 or possibly less. She and her similarly clad workout buddy were front and center all around me during squats doing multiple things directly in my line of vision. It just made me feel lecherous every time I looked the wrong way and got an eyeful.
