how open are you to discuss your steroid usage ?

[Vettester]

A few years back, I had a buddy at the gym that was in serious need of HRT, so I opened up to him a bit. More than anything, it just became complicated, and he became annoying, due to not having any knowledge, and not wanting to really invest into understanding the full dynamics of what it will take to get his program in order. Then of course his doctor didn't know squat about it, so he would start coming to me with all sorts of questions and concerns, stuff like being worried he would bleed out from a SubQ injection LOL. It got to the point where I'd start going at different times. When I'm at the gym, I don't sit around texting, gabbing, or circle jerking with anyone, let alone talking hormones ... I just want to do my routine and get the hell out.

From that point on, I said "No mas". My wife is the only one that knows A to Z on me. She's the same way ... She tried explaining BHRT to her sister one time, and I don't think she'll be doing that again anytime soon.

Sadly, at least 1/2 the guys I know 40 and up are no doubt living with hypogonadism, in conjunction with other issues like hypothyroidism, elevated E2 & SHBG, hypertension, metabolic and cardiovascular complications and pathologies, etc., yet they stay on the same course. Don't get me wrong, out of compassion, I get tempted to want to tell a select few about our community here, and to give them some insight on where to start with the solutions are, etc. But, then I remind myself that this is their personal journey, and the answers are out there for them, just as they were for me when I sought out to make changes.

[Shol'va]

A few years back, I had a buddy at the gym that was in serious need of HRT, so I opened up to him a bit. More than anything, it just became complicated, and he became annoying, due to not having any knowledge, and not wanting to really invest into understanding the full dynamics of what it will take to get his program in order. Then of course his doctor didn't know squat about it, so he would start coming to me with all sorts of questions and concerns, stuff like being worried he would bleed out from a SubQ injection LOL. It got to the point where I'd start going at different times. When I'm at the gym, I don't sit around texting, gabbing, or circle jerking with anyone, let alone talking hormones ... I just want to do my routine and get the hell out.

From that point on, I said "No mas". My wife is the only one that knows A to Z on me. She's the same way ... She tried explaining BHRT to her sister one time, and I don't think she'll be doing that again anytime soon.

Sadly, at least 1/2 the guys I know 40 and up are no doubt living with hypogonadism, in conjunction with other issues like hypothyroidism, elevated E2 & SHBG, hypertension, metabolic and cardiovascular complications and pathologies, etc., yet they stay on the same course. Don't get me wrong, out of compassion, I get tempted to want to tell a select few about our community here, and to give them some insight on where to start with the solutions are, etc. But, then I remind myself that this is their personal journey, and the answers are out there for them, just as they were for me when I sought out to make changes.

Wow Vettester it's interesting that you post that. I was reading here while back in the paper that back in the 1950-1960's the military did a lot of above ground nuclear bomb testing in Nevada and Utah. And that due to the weather patterns of the time the fallout of radiation went way up into the the clouds traveling with the weather systems and mixed with the rain and snow which fell over the midwest. and the milk cows grazed on the grasses as the rain fell mixed with radioactive waste fallout. And back then those cows were fast milked and milk was delivered to your doorsteps. Also the other animals including chickens ate and drank the grasses and waters. So they were all freshly polluted. and since it was all shipped so fast to market the radiation didn't have time to dissolve or break down. So the people of that time in the 60's were heavily exposed to radiation. So now after an extensive study most people of the midwest who grew up in that time are now having thyroid issues which can be linked back to the nuclear fall out. Of course by the 70's the Government had decided to stop all above ground testing without telling the public the truth. So who knows what all we are exposed to every day without our knowledge. But whenever anyone now talks about having thyroid issues I think of that newspaper article from the Kansas City Star and Times newspaper.