Still no libido: help!

[sierrahiker]

Ed, I thought from exhaustive reading of this Forum that the standard script for self-injections are 100 mg's a week? If I inject twice a week, should I ask for 50 mg's twice a week? Again, on 200 mg's at a two week interval, my T. level shot up to 1300+.

I know a lot of guys would love that level, but I'm not a body builder and I find that when my levels go that high I actually feel worse than at 800-900.

Why would a Doc be resistent to a man self-injecting? They'd prescribe the vials, how could you abuse it? I don't get it.

[Epic Ed]

Ed, I thought from exhaustive reading of this Forum that the standard script for self-injections are 100 mg's a week? If I inject twice a week, should I ask for 50 mg's twice a week? Again, on 200 mg's at a two week interval, my T. level shot up to 1300+.

I know a lot of guys would love that level, but I'm not a body builder and I find that when my levels go that high I actually feel worse than at 800-900.

Why would a Doc be resistent to a man self-injecting? They'd prescribe the vials, how could you abuse it? I don't get it.

I think 100mg per week is a dose most docs script for a starting point for TRT, and from what I've read here on this forum, more often than not it's a good starting point to get a baseline of where the doses need to go. That's the dose I'm on, except I split mine up into two 50mg injections per week. Dose is the same -- frequency increased because after 4 weeks of dosing 100mg a week I recognized a consistent drop in focus and energy after day five or six. I've done 2x per week injections for two weeks and haven't had that problem. Others report similar results, but a lot of people are fine with 1x EW.

My point is, your doc should be working with you as an advisor in your health care plan. YOU should be the one allowed to drive the process, though. A lot of docs aren't used to working like that with their patients, but I insist on it. If you're here on this forum and others doing your own research about what works for others you're already miles ahead of the game from those who just sit back and let their docs do all the decision making. Some people prefer it that way, and there's nothing wrong with that, but there is enough info available to every day schmucks like you and me these days that we can do enough information gathering about most medical matters to make our own educated decisions about how we want to proceed. The doc should be a partner in the process, not pretending to be omniscient and closed minded to his patients input.