First I want to say how much I like this site and it related forums. The community and the available information is a welcome resource when dealing with an area that modern medicine still seems to be quite confused about. Also, I apologize for the length of this post. It is my first.
I am a 43 year old semi-professional motorcycle roadracer. I have always maintained myself in decent shape with occasional short periods of being overweight (off-season), and underweight (from middle to end of race season). Over the last two years I noticed that my drive seemed off, my levels of aggression on the racetrack were dropping, and my general desire seemed to be reducing as well. Having been at the top of my game in all those areas for many years this naturally caused a bit of panic in me and I got stupid.
After lamenting my situation to a friend at my gym he gave me the name of his doctor and said go see this guy because he cured similar issues for this friend. I jumped on the chance and made an appointment. Unlike everything else in my life, I did no research. I think my desire for a fix blinded me to following the smart path and I just reacted.
So I go visit this doctor who asked me about 10 questions before telling me he wanted me on test cyp 200mg per week. He pulled no blood work. He just prescribed, gave me my first injection on the spot, and sent me on my way. I then motor through 8 weeks of injections and I feel great. I am a tiger in the gym and on the racetrack. Things are going great and THEN I decide to do research. I find this site and as I learn, I begin to get a bit freaked out that I am doing the wrong thing here….so I book an appointment with my GP.
After telling my GP the story she literally comes unglued. She tells me that I could have a heart attack, will become sterile, and that I will be lucky to not have prostate cancer. She is clearly not well educated when it comes to this subject and she refers me to a urologist. She also pulls the entire battery of tests that I requested (results below) and sends me on my way. Note: my blood pressure was sky high the entire visit, further freaking this doc out.
Next I visit the Urologist who is much less afraid of HRT and who has many patients on therapy, most on gel. I got through the whole thing with him, finger in the tail, etc. He then informs me that I should not be taking AI and to stop taking it immediately. He also says that he wants me to stop the cyp right away, come back in 6 weeks and get a baseline reading, and go from there. Naturally, with the results I am seeing and the fear of returning to a bottom I don’t want to do that so I leave and have been sitting here stewing for a week. Also, he will approve NOTHING for PCT. He says just stop and everything will return to normal on its own.
So now I don’t know what to do. I clearly have to get the blood pressure issue under control and my liver function is a bit wonky. I have been booked into a sleep study because the Urologist thinks I may have apnea which he says would contribute to poor liver function.
As of now I am continuing with 200mg test cyp every Friday, no AI, a very clean diet, and exercise five days per week. I am not giving blood or doing anything else related to this therapy. I have reached a point of not knowing where to go next. Do I now go try to find doc #4 or what? I am lost and just don’t trust any of these docs to send me down the right path.
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Originally Posted by twostrokeracer
Too much info to process.
