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Thanks. I’ll have to consider dropping the HCG then. I was under the impression Dr. Lipshultz’s protocol was to stop TRT and run HCG and Clomid for 3 months and if no sperm then switch to HCG and FSH for fastest return of spermatogenesis. Clomid monotherapy makes the most logical sense if both...

Hey guys, I’m a 30-year-old male who was on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for eight years. I’ve been completely off T for four months now and have been taking Clomid 25 mg daily and HCG 1,500 IU every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Recently, I’ve just increased my HCG dosage to 2,000...

My UGL has always been G2G and I have labs back in March that show values >700. I will definitely have to look into a retest.

So is it safe to say my test is bunk? I did my labwork thru discounted labs at Quest.

I just got my labs back and have been injecting 16mg/day IM with UGL test. Am I reading my lab results right? Total test <1 wtf???

How much did you take of exemestane per day and what was your estrogen level on that dose?

Weird that it negatively affected your lipids. According to two studies on PubMed. Anastrozole negatively affected Breast Cancer women taking the drug whereas Exemestane had a neutral effect on lipids. Guess you’re just an outlier

How are your lipids now? You’re probably right. I’ll look more into it bro.

That’s awesome! I’m going to go ahead and take .25mg/day of anastrozole to knock down my E. I thought exemestane was supposed to be better for lipids. Guess I had to backwards!

Thanks for the advice bro. I’ll just base my free T off of the labs calculation. I will eventually switch to Exemestane for AI once my arimidex runs out to better control my estrogen. I do better (like you) when my estrogen is in the single digits which I believe requires .25mg ED of Anastrozole.

I wish it was more mathematical so you could easily dial it in. TRT is in its infancy it feels and very ambiguous. No one seems to have a perfect answer. It’s also ironic we’re always told to base our TRT protocol on our Free T levels yet nobody can agree on a method of measuring it :(

Haha from @madman ?

It just sucks cause there’s such a big difference between the TruT calculation versus the other methods. Which means if you’re basing it off of the other methods and you’re on the very high end of the range, your TruT number would be crazy high

I am officially confused and do not know what Free T value to aim for and which method to use to calculate it. It seems the consensus is that Free T direct is useless. My protocol is 15mg/daily of Test Cyp + .25mg Anastrozole EOD Trough Bloodwork Total T 705 ng/dl Estradiol LC/MS 20.8...

Ok, I will try that. What daily cyp dose are you on again? And what’s your SHBG.