Hi all - I'll post complete history here so apologies for the length but I think this is what you guys will want to know.
Prior to treatment (late Nov '13)
Total T 738 (range 332 - 896)
Free Test 12.4 (range 5-40)
Estradiol 43 (range 0-56)
I decided to go on treatment to up the Free T and lower the E2, based on my primary goal to lose fat and secondary goal to build muscle. (Over 10 years of diet + exercise had made little progress compared to effort expended.) Also, I had prior tests that showed the E2 at the high end of the range but the Total T near the lower end of the range.
I went on treatment at 100mg 2x/wk and was quite anxious, emotional and gained several lbs. On January 8 the doc told me to cut the Test in half, so I went to this protocol:
50 mg T-CYP 2x week
1mg Anastrazole 2x week (the morning after the above shot)
250 ml HCG every 3 days
Since cutting the Test down I've felt better, though I still have 1-2 days a week when I am fairly anxious or feel like I'm having some other side effect related to treatment.
On Jan 31 I had blood drawn, so these results below are about 3 weeks into the above protocol. Here's where I was:
Total T 1527 (range 332 - 896)
Free Test 46.7 (range 5-40)
Estradiol 32 (range 0-56)
IGF-1 201.1 (range 132-333)
Hematocrit 42.8 (range 39-50)
On the same day I had the blood drawn, I met with a new doc who replaced the old doc. He told me 1mg AI was too much (consistent with what you guys were saying) so he told me to skip that entirely or just take less if I felt like I needed it. I did indeed skip the AI on the last shot (so after these results were drawn) as well as the following shot. Last night I had severe chills and intense pain under both pecs, so I decided to take .25mg AI as I wasn't sure if it was E2 related or just some random crazy cold. Today I feel much better though, so maybe the AI helped?
In any case, today the doc decided to keep test where it is but cut the AI down, so this is the protocol he recommended:
50 mg T-CYP 2x week
.5mg Anastrazole 2x week day after T-CYP
250 ml HCG 2x week day after AI
His reasoning for not lowering the T is that I may have still had some of the older, higher dose left in my system when I had blood drawn. So he wants to wait another month and says if it is still that high we should lower the T-CYP.
So if you've made it this far (thanks!) then here are my questions:
1) Do you think the high T could have been somewhat inflated from the prior, higher T dose, even though I had stopped that 3 weeks prior to the blood draw?
2) If not inflated, do you think there are any concerns maintaining my current T dose for another month before re-testing?
3) What do you think about the new AI dose given that anxiety has been an issue when I was dosing at 1mg 2x week, yet on that dose my E2 seemed to land in a good spot (at least on the day of the draw)?