For those of you on TRT, is TRT A Numbers Game or A Feelings Game?

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For you is Testosterone Replacement Therapy a Numbers Game or A Feelings Game?

How do you know your dialed into the right dosage for you???
 
Good question. I'm low normal by the numbers, but I feel so much better with a little boost
 
Taureau said:
For you is Testosterone Replacement Therapy a Numbers Game or A Feelings Game?

How do you know your dialed into the right dosage for you???
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currently its a numbers game because that's what my doctors are comfortable with. I'm wondering if I treate it as a feelings game if I could continue to improve on my health issues without side effects.
 
For me it’s all about how I feel (energy, libido, mood, aches and pains, etc) but it’s tedious and takes huge patience to determine the ideal point because you have to make small mg changes, wait 8 weeks, stabilize hormones, assess how you fell and get bloods. So now I know the numbers where I feel best at TRT levels with no ai.

Before I started TRT Boosts i needed this baseline to compare how I feel with boosts verses risk/reward.

TRT key NUMBERS for me to FEEL how I want to feel:
- I can’t make gains unless Free Test is over 500.
- If E2 under 50 pmol/l I feel like crap, if over 110 too emotional, retain water, etc
- watch PSA numbers for movement
- watch RBC and donate to keep under 50




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If it was entirely up to me I’d dose according to how I feel but since the doc is involved it becomes a numbers game.
 
flexappeal said:
If it was entirely up to me I’d dose according to how I feel but since the doc is involved it becomes a numbers game.
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You make a good point. I’ve been fortunate to have a doctors willing to let me drive the experiments with dosages I have done and allow me to do the blood work to collect the data so I could correlate what I could feel and what I couldn’t feel to the numbers.


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I have a script for 200mg a week but honestly I feel better @ 125-150 every 7-10 days. Sometimes I have missed a week due to work traveling and I notice that feel better when my levels are on the low side.

For TRT sometimes more isn’t better.
 
Bigwheel said:
I have a script for 200mg a week but honestly I feel better @ 125-150 every 7-10 days. Sometimes I have missed a week due to work traveling and I notice that feel better when my levels are on the low side.

For TRT sometimes more isn’t better.
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Do you take an ai at 200mg? If so do you think that contributes to how you feel?


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Bigwheel said:
I never use an AI cause my dr doesnt was to prescribe one for some reason but on 200mg my E is in range but high
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My doc is against an AI as well but I’ve read enough literature that contradicts that thought. His thinking is to be as close to natural as possible but I reality there’s nothing natural about TRT lol
 
A feel game for me. In fact my doc only checks my levels when I ask. Having been on prescription T for 21 years without any side effects, I suppose it is just the best way to approach a patient based therapy regimen.
Dialed in? I have no idea at all how to tell due to never sticking to the prescribed dose.
 
flexappeal said:
My doc is against an AI as well but I’ve read enough literature that contradicts that thought. His thinking is to be as close to natural as possible but I reality there’s nothing natural about TRT lol
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Yeah I agree, wanted to try HCG as well but he wasn’t down with that either.
 
For my doc is a symptoms and feelings game. I am on a super massive dose of .25mls/week, which I split into 2. Last time I was in the doc was like 'it's high for a woman now, but I guess you don't mind that, considering your lifestyle?' (I'm. It actually high for a woman, I think I'm at the low end of normal? But waaaay better than zip.
 
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