Quote Originally Posted by aer_vlad View Post
I have no problems with needles, shots, etc. - but in the words of my doctor:

"Out of the 100 or so patients I've had self inject, I've had a few die. While the odds are slim, a few deaths is too many for me to feel comfortable recommending self injections."

Initially, my doctor wanted to inject every other week. I told him no way, I'd rather have weekly injections and avoid the roller coaster. Even then, I feel slightly "off" by day 7.

My T-levels were 988 after taking 400mg/week. He backed down to 350mg/week. I thought this was reasonable?

As for hCG, I asked him about it and said it wasn't necessary. How do I convince him other wise? He also doesn't order labs for estrogen, which bothers me. How do I convince him of that? lol If my estrogen comes back anywhere near high, I feel he'll just lower the TRT dose instead of prescribing an AI.

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.
Get your own labs for estradiol from one of the online ones that use labcorp or from Life Extension. They have thier annual sale from March - May. No doc needed.

Some doctors will not be convinced even when you take them in studies as evidence. HCG can be bought from overseas if neccessary. There are reputable online pharmacies out there that don't sell scheduled drugs so your mind can be at ease. Most states do not regard hcg as scheduled. There are less than 10 that do I think, so you'd need to find out the laws in your state for hcg. Many guys order from such pharmacies rather than domestically even with a prescription because it is so much cheaper. Hucog is the least expensive generic and works great.

There are ways to do this properly. Your doc is not doing this properly but use him for his script for T and whatever other tests he will do. With hcg you would not need 350 a week which is closer to a cycle.

If you start using hcg you'll be injecting on your own anyway so how much different will it be to do cyp at home too?