Recent content by ashechtman

Hey fellas, Due to my impulsiveness I have wasted a lot of money on bodybuilding supplements that aren't going to get used, so now they're all for sale. I bought 4 bottles of SNS x-gels a little while ago. I opened one of them and used a little bit of one of the bottles, but then stopped...

Breakfast is usually a big omelet with mushroom bacon brocolli ham, side of fruit, and whole wheat toast, lunch is usually a chicken and ham sandwhich with cheese veggies on whole wheat roll with milk, dinner is lots of either chicken, beef, fish, brocolli, spinach, sweet potato and milk, before...

How can you possibly say its all in my head. I had symptoms, T of 200 at 18 is definitely nowhere near normal, everything else is fine. I've been lifting for a while, I don't overtrain, I'm not obese, my diet is good, I'm already supplementing vitamin d3 etc... Nothing has budged over the past...

I've been reading that hypothyroidism can cause delayed puberty and low shbg, which makes me think that COULD be the main issue here. And my TSH has always hovered a little high 3.1-3.9. However, I have no symptoms of hypothyroidism and my free t3, free t4, reverse t3, and thyroid antibodies are...

Haha thanks for the honest opinion. How come though? I've been having symptoms of low T for a while now and my endo and urologist both say its a little late to pull the "late bloomer" card. They think if that was the case my T would be much higher at age 18. I agree, a T level of 200 and LH of 1...

I think I may just stay on TRT for a few years, then maybe try a clomid restart when I'm like 20 or 21 to see if I'm in fact a late bloomer. What do you think of that?

Sorry for the delay, I'll answer all your questions now. 1) I was having symptoms, no energy, low motivation, hard time building muscle, put on fat way too easily, no hair anywhere, no morning wood, low libido, decreased bone density as verified by a bone density scan. It wasn't further...

Shbg was 13, ref range is 10-50. Could that be the problem?

My shbg is on the low end of normal, I think that's the problem. I'm well aware that low shbg makes gels pretty useless but how about injections?

Yes that was my total testosterone, my free testosterone I don't have the number but my doctor said it was also high above the reference range I believe. Also that was definitely a peak value considering it was about 2 hours after application.

I had read that putting the gel on the same arm used during the blood draw can alter the results. Anyone know if this is true? I know the day of I made sure to not put it on near the blood draw site but the preceeding days I may have.

Ok bloods just came back, I'm so confused. On 2 tubes of testim, it said my testosterone was 1073 and my estradiol was 27...Sounds perfect right? I got bloods done about 1-2 hours after application. I've been on the 2 tubes of testim for a few weeks now and I don't notice anything. My libido is...

Only thing I'm worried about with the injections vs the gel is that the injections don't seem to raise dht enough. Any thoughts/comments?

Thats awesome jester, good for you. Well if i'm not still shut down from the epi and osta then I guess TRT it is.

By the way, I called up my doctor and said the 2 tubes of testim aren't cutting it, so I got bloods done today to see where i'm at. I'll let you guys know what the results are. Once we get the results back he'll switch me to test cyp.