First injection

[ariel]

Temple,

I think realgains pointed out that my dose was not more than 50mg. I did ask here what if any sides can be seen at a one shot dose even if it is higher. Does anyone know of a site where I can look at pics of a syringe and maybe learn about these conversions???? Maybe post a pic or a link so that I can be more accurate? It is a fact that I am taking a risk, but with gear being illegal sometimes we have to rely on info that may not always be correct, but I guess we deal with it. I have tried and am trying to learn and feel pretty confident, I did'nt know though the differnce with the dosage, I thought it was all the same and months of reading nobody ever said anything about the diffeernet conversions.

I spoke with my doc and she said she likes to take things real slow and wait fo the blood tests to see if it is working. With the doctors visits the whole slew of blood test and the scripts that I got my bill came out to be 500 dollars.. I don't have any health insurance at this time. Of course money should not be to big of a problem or an object when it comes to health. Realgains wife takes a compounded test cream, different than the androgel, just like me. I felt as per his ideas the shot or 2 of test to boost me the cream should not let me fall below normal, just would take awhile to get me TO normal.

Realgains, Does your wife get her script filled at Prescription Pharmacy Labs or soemthing like that in Arizona?

ariel

 

[Realgains]

ariel.....she gets the stuff from a compounding pharmacy as that is the only place that you can get it.

Most decent sized cities have compounding pharmacies and since that big scare about synthetic hormone use causing all sorts of health problems for women the compounding pharmacies have really taken off.
These guys have been saying for years that natural source hormone replacement therapy is the only way to go and that taking 17 different estrogens form a pregnant horses uterus(Premeran) is not a good idea.

RG

 

[ariel]

Realgains,

My doctor only deals with the pharmacy in Arizona Prescription lab Pharmacy. I had read that very few pharmacists really know how to make a highly absorbable test cream.

My dose of test cream was 1ml a day. Like fit fossil, but I doubled it and saw some improvemtn...First in my blood sugar, I don't know why, but it stopped crashing so much, the first week. I think test helps with mental stability and drive+stamina and I did see a slight increase, but I was done with my bottle in 2 weeks and I have a limit on how much I am allowed. Basicly I am goign to the type of doctor that wants to take the easiest, slowest route..Why DOUBLE the dose when a single one MIGHT show results...I don't think she will say oh yeah go ahead and take 3mg or whatever a day. She will say take 1 and see, come back in 3 months and then we try more. So I am looking at another 8-9months here, to even get to what realgains(and his educated understanding) of what it takes to see some real results.

I will say without a doubt that the test script alone lifted a lot of what I THOUGHT was depression. I was so weepy, I swear I cried every single day. After one week I could I could handle things a tad better and things were not overwhelming. I had a postive outlook after about 12 days on the test. Maybe it was slightly mental that I would continue to feel better, but it helped either way.

OK, is it normal to have a sore ass after an injection? There is no abcess, but how long does one take to develop? I really FEEL the tender spot, and a bit of tightness, but can see nothing through the skin...NORMAL.

Fitfossil, although you and I have discussed the difference between us...Age for one, do you ever find yourself more weepy than usual? Like I said before my doc said estrogen was the only thing I was making enough of.

ariel

 

[Realgains]

Most large cities have "compounding pharmacies" you just need to look them up but if you are getting the stuff from a regular pharmacy then great.

My wife takes 2,5 mg per day in a soft white gel. It is made up by the compounding pharmacist and then put into 3cc syringes for dosing accuracy......,1ml =2.5mg. one or 2 mg per day may be just fine for you altjhough some have gone as high as 5mg per day. You can also increase the dose on days that you feel are going to be mentally or physically demanding...thats okay.

Low test can certainly result in mood swings and depression as well as low stamina both physically and mentally...these are proven facts for sure.


Injections will normally hurt a little the next day and for a day or two after that....don't worry about it. If the site gets really sore and red and warm then you have an injection but that is pretty rare.



RG

 

[FitFossil]

...Fitfossil, although you and I have discussed the difference between us...Age for one, do you ever find yourself more weepy than usual? Like I said before my doc said estrogen was the only thing I was making enough of....
ariel

I wish I could give you a simple answer, but I can't, so brace yourself for a little life history ...

Weepiness - not currently, but that's partly because I've been on Celexa (a SSRI anti-depressant I take for OCD and depression) since May. While it's not a "happy pill", it just makes me feel normal. I took Prozac for about 12 years and it made me feel so normal I gradually weaned myself off of it. After several months, my symptoms began to return, and during these times I DID have periods of weepiness come out of the blue.

Looking back 7 years ago, I was taking Prozac and everything was great. THEN I started on the birth control pill, and I plunged into a living HELL. My moods became roller-coaster, fine one minute, weepy or angry the next. Even tripling my Prozac didn't help. I also began having horrible PMS symptoms - moods, breast swelling, water retention. I'd never had PMS before, and I never had it again after stopping the pill.

For many women, progesterone has a calming effect, for others though it's depressive. My tests showed borderline low progesterone. I'm going to look into this when I get my next hormone bloodwork (after a month on the test creme). Progesterone has many protective effects, so if I'm not making enough, I want to rectify it. It's also important for sustaining pregnancy. Progesterone should not to be confused with Progestin (something I consider to be the work of the Devil - at least in my body ). Progestin is man-made and barely resembles Progesterone in either structure or function. It's in birth control pills and Provera

Another symptom of low progesterone is no cycles, irregular or short cycles - mine are regular but short.