189 ng/dL. Small pituitary gland. Starting Nebido in four days. Bloods inside.

[markwilliams]

Hello,

A quick update.

I did my second injection two days ago, on the opposite side of last time (I had two abscesses, so this time we injected in 2'30'' and massaged the area for a decent amount of time).

I skipped the booster since I couldn't find an endo that agreed to it and as a result weeks 4-10 have been TRASH. Sometimes I was crying in my bed at night, with no reason. No energy, ZERO libido. I took bloods on my own to determine what was going on (I attached them at the end of this message).

On week 11, I finally decided to inject and not wait till week 12. Nothing happened so far, but I'm positive.

||| Bloods - Week 8 after my first injection. |||

LH: 1.0 (1-8) [before starting treatment, LH was 1.8]
SHBG: 36 (13-71) [before starting treatment, SHBG was 38]
Testosterone: 3.85 (2.7 - 10) [before starting treatment, TEST was 3.20]
Free Testosterone: 74.6 (75-124) [before starting treatment, FREE TEST was 62]

What do you guys think?

Cheers
M.

[Youthful55guy]

Hello,

A quick update.

I did my second injection two days ago, on the opposite side of last time (I had two abscesses, so this time we injected in 2'30'' and massaged the area for a decent amount of time).

I skipped the booster since I couldn't find an endo that agreed to it and as a result weeks 4-10 have been TRASH. Sometimes I was crying in my bed at night, with no reason. No energy, ZERO libido. I took bloods on my own to determine what was going on (I attached them at the end of this message).

On week 11, I finally decided to inject and not wait till week 12. Nothing happened so far, but I'm positive.

||| Bloods - Week 8 after my first injection. |||

LH: 1.0 (1-8) [before starting treatment, LH was 1.8]
SHBG: 36 (13-71) [before starting treatment, SHBG was 38]
Testosterone: 3.85 (2.7 - 10) [before starting treatment, TEST was 3.20]
Free Testosterone: 74.6 (75-124) [before starting treatment, FREE TEST was 62]

What do you guys think?

Cheers
M.

What do I think? To be blunt, it's a shitty protocol. Now for the more constructive comments.

Bizzarro is correct. While on a good and stable TRT protocol, your LH should be below detection at all times. This is a strong indicator that your T levels are too low for a good TRT protocol, but then again, you TT and FT tests show that anyway. You should be at least mid-range.

SHBG is not a problem, so don't mess with that.

As I previously comments, Nibido may eventually have its place in the TRT world, but they haven't worked out optimum protocols yet. I also believe that with TRT, a one size fits all protocol is never the correct approach. You should do frequent labs at the start and use the data to steer the boat until it is on a steady course and then you can just do maintenance labs and minor adjustments.

Hope you get your boat on course.