Bloodwork Concerns!!!

[jhatx]

I am currently doing about 130mg of test split 2x per week. Back in March my test was at 620 and free at 20.

I dont have DHT in my bloodwork.

Thanks for the article. I am sure all of plubotomies helped destroy me. They were actually larger than one pint. The donation center lets you take more for therapeutic so I said OK thinking more is better.......

Starting irod supps tonight!

[Youthful55guy]

I am currently doing about 130mg of test split 2x per week. Back in March my test was at 620 and free at 20.

I dont have DHT in my bloodwork.

Thanks for the article. I am sure all of plubotomies helped destroy me. They were actually larger than one pint. The donation center lets you take more for therapeutic so I said OK thinking more is better.......

Starting irod supps tonight!

That's a very reasonable T-dose and protocol and your Free T indicates you at about a perfect level. My goal is to maintain it around 21 to 22 pg/mL, which is about the upper 75th percentile of a 35-40 year old healthy male. This is also consistent with the Life Extension Organization recommendation for Free T. Total T is a worthless lab.

You probably want to monitor DHT. It's what drives RBC production more than T. There's a good recent article showing supporting this. The article also shows that guys on TRT generally have high DHT and high RBC labs. While guys using finasteride have more normal DHT levels and more normal hemoglobin production. The downside to controlling DHT with finasteride is that it disqualifies you from blood donations for 4 weeks after discontinuation. This would not be a problem if controlling your DHT with finasteride also successfully controlled hemoglobin production, but if you ever needed (or wanted) to donate blood, you would need to come off of finasteride for 4 weeks.

[jhatx]

So high DHT might be what made me have to start shaving my head after being on TRT for a few years?

[Youthful55guy]

So high DHT might be what made me have to start shaving my head after being on TRT for a few years?

DHT is the hormone that (among other things) promotes hair loss in men if you are genetically programmed for it. The higher the DHT, the faster the hair loss. One of my regrets of TRT (being over 7 years into it) is that I did not monitor DHT until recently, and that I listened to the anti-finasteride people who say it screwed up their sex life. Those of us on TRT generally have higher levels of T and this drives faster conversion to DHT. DHT is what drives many of the side-effects. The goal is not to crush DHT with finasteride, but rather to titrate the dose to keep DHT into the normal adult male range.