I have a great one in Brisbane, he is one of the UQ Med lectures old school but is on the ball
I have a great one in Brisbane, he is one of the UQ Med lectures old school but is on the ball
Or email please... Tempest.seven at gmail
I would like to throw in my 2c here:
If you don't wanna read my wall of text, and you want the most up-to-date info out of the US on trt protocols, please do yourself a favor and please listen to this podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZyptAoqnJw featuring Dr. John crisler, top trt physician in the US, there is so much good info contained it's not funny. There are also many more on youtube with a wealth of info.
ATTENTION: if an endo ever offers you reandron 1000, proceed to run 100ks in the other direction, as this means that the endo has absolutely no clue on how to properly administer trt.
I have been on trt for 4 yrs now. Diagnosed with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism(central hypogonadism) due to a benign pituitary tumor. I felt good up until age 27 which is when I guess the tumor started shutting me down.
Now, in my case I don't just have low T levels, I literally have no levels of T in my body if i stop trt. My body has completely, lost the ability to produce testosterone.
All I have to say is that the state of trt in Australia is abysmal, most docs are using protocols from the 80s-90s.
And to say I have been on the trt treatment rollercoaster is the understatement of the century.
The first treatment offered to me was reandrom 1000, which is Testosterone undecanoate 1000mg shot every 8 -12 weeks, so that's 1gram of test(in my case) every 10 weeks. After everything i have learned about trt protocols in the past 4 yrs i have since learned that this is THE WORST TRT PROTOCOL EVER DEVISED.
I don't care how fancy an ester they put on it, 1 gram of test isn't going to stay in your body anywhere close to 8 - 12 weeks, let alone maintain a steady state.
The goal of trt is to get your hormone panel as close to a healthy males in their late 20's that has high-normal to high t lvls, no less, no more, and test is just one hormone and a small piece of the puzzle, you need the whole panel checked and adjusted to feel as good as possible.
My current situ is that im now on the max dose of gels which is working quite well. I'm definitely allot closer to steady state.
I'm yet to find a decent endo though, I'm just lucky my endo gives me whatever I want, but that's only because of my diagnosis, I'm sure if I presented with general low T, it would be a whole diff story.
i have literally been teaching my endo trt along the way, went from reandron, enenthate - every 3 weeks(which is the second worst [rotolcol you could ever be prescribed) to every 2w, then now onto the gels, which i have felt the best on and no longer have ANY PEAKS AND VALLEYS.
But endo still refuses to check anything other tha the standard blood panel, with total t thrown in, and had to beg him to get estrogen tested, again just abysmal treatment but I cant find another endo that bulk bills, so god only knows what the rest of my hormones are doing, all I can do is monitor myself closely for high e symtoms, atlest the gels are very easy to quckly adjust dosage and changes are felt in under 3 days with them. If you listen to the podcast mentioned above, according to dr crisler the best steady stae is achived with gels as long as everything else is in place correctly also.
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