My first 10 Days on TRT

35 Male, average build average weight

Pre TRT Levels

Total - 400-450 ng/dL

Free- 8.0 😬

SHBG- 40 nmol/L

Albumin- 4.5 g/dl

Prolactin- 8.5 ng/ml

E2- 24.0pg/ml

Symptoms- just way too many years of depression, anxiety episodes, low energy, zero motivation, not much will to live. Tried everything from antidepressants to diet and exercise. Removing all drugs/alcohol/meds from my life and being healthier is what raised me to those pre TRT levels. Years ago I was much worse as low as 270 total test. Regardless, none of these things ever went away. I decided to start TRT with a clinic since my levels could def be higher either way.

I decided to go sub Q into belly fat, 30mg EOD, totaling around 105 mg per week. This is a little lower than I was prescribed, but my prescription dosage means nothing to me because the clinic was going to order my prescription no matter what my test came back, and she said she starts everyone around the same. Id way rather have to go up than go down, so I’m hoping this is a decent starting dose. I’d like to be on this for life especially if it helps lol, so I’m aiming for a healthy level.

Somewhere around 800 total test would be nice. My only concern is that I do not have that bad of a production issue, but my free testosterone was the real issue. I’m hoping TRT can balance it out and I hope I did not make a mistake by jumping into TRT without trying to address why my free is low, relative to my total, to begin with. I hope I’m not wasting my time and I hope I don’t have to add a bunch of other stuff. Testosterone only is the dream. I don’t care much about infertility or the size of my balls. (I’m learning as I go, esp from you guys so thank you, because my Clinic is useless).

My experience so far-:

I’ll start by saying that I’m usually not someone to fall for any sort of placebo. If anything, I would be office it because I have very low hopes for anything to work anymore.. around D3, which was only my second injection, I woke up with a big pimple on my forehead, and a big pimple on my shoulder. I never have acne. But I felt good that this meant my hormones were changing. Also, between the day three and eight, I noticed I was extra happy for 99% of the day, almost like a form of euphoria. But then, in the matter of an instant it could switch, and I would be very sad and depressed for no specific reason. But that part didn’t last too long. Again, I was happy about this because first form used to feeling depressed and miserable, but it meant that I’m having hormonal changes. Yesterday was day nine and today’s day ten, I do not feel much of anything anymore. I know that it’s still too early to really feel a difference, and I’m glad that maybe things are bouncing out so that there’s no mood changes or swings. But it’s like I’m in this weird phase of thinking maybe it’s not going to help me. Because when I felt the first week was definitely real.

One thing for sure is that I’m working out way harder in the gym now, obviously physical benefits cannot have possibly started take place and I know that this is just me cleaning onto some hope and trying to make the best of it. Regardless, not complaining, I’m crushing it in the gym, even though I don’t really feel like being there. I do not enjoy it like I used to and I hope I start to feel a change in this.

One last thing that I’ve definitely noticed, I do seem to stay awake and feel a bit of energy throughout the day already, but by early p.m. I absolutely crash I need to go pass out or lay down . Normally the late night is when I always felt the most awake lol and I’d be up till 5 am no problem. Now around 8-9PM I completely die out. This can end up being good for me, I just hope it doesn’t hit as hard over time, and not so early.

I’ll update in another week or so.