Looking to hear some success stories and feedback from guys who are feeling great and achieving all their goals, how long it took them to find that sweet spot, and how long they’ve been there.
To me dialed in would be doing well in these categories:
Energy
Mental clarity
Strength/gym gains
Libido
Quality erections
And anything else I may have missed
Maybe it's early in the game but I started over 2 years ago and have felt dialed in for almost all of that time. I started on 150mg a week split m/w/f. I also started with hcg. But have since stopped taking it. Started with 0.125 anastrazole m/w/f. After about 5 months I had a sudden episode of Ed which looking back I think might have had to do with stress but who knows. At that time I upped the anastrazole to 0.2mg m/w/f and symptoms dissapeard but I believe it would have gone away on its own now that I think about it. After 3 months when I got my refill I accidentally was given 0.125mg anastrazole and just decided to see what happened. Nothing changed so I decided to see what would happen if I stopped the AI all together. Still no symptoms and that was 9 months ago.
More recently about 2 months ago I decided to up my weekly testosterone dose by going to 50mg every other day. About 3 weeks after I did that I had some ED. I could perform but not like usual. I believe it would have sorted itself out and I would have gotten used to the higher dose but I dropped my EOD dose to 44mg and feel great. That's the only symptom I had and other than that I felt absolutely amazing. Within 2 weeks erection quality came back. I may slowing raid the dose a little to see what happens.
As far as your criteria for being dialed in, here is what I have been.
Energy has been great. I used to take naps almost daily, now I have to miss a full night's sleep to need a nap.
Mental clarity I haven't noticed a difference. I felt good before so I can't say I have noticed a difference.
Strength/gym gains. I had strength gains in yhe beginning and have been pretty steady since. The real benifit has been that I simply don't get sore. I used to be sore for 4 days after doing legs now I can work out until I can't walk and I wake up the next day feeling great.
Libido was strong even before testosterone and nothing has changed. Wife and I have sex between 4-6 days a week and many days multiple times. The difference I would say since starting testosterone is before starting sometimes if I was tired I would choose going to sleep instead of sex, especially if I already had sex earlier in the day. Now I'm not usually tired so I don't choose sleep.
Erection quality with the exception of maybe a total of 4 weeks which I explained earlier has been really good. 10/10.
Overall I have really had a good experience with testosterone. I'm 41 years old and maybe I'm an anomoly but for me it's been amazing. I take 44mg testosterone EOD. No AI or HCG.