Recent content by barnowl

I'm just glad I convinced her to up the dose a little. She was planning to leave me where I was, just over the lower bound of the normal range. I suspect I've been a "lower level" guy all my life so being up in 600-700 ought to be paradise by comparison. I really do feel about 20 years younger now!

Agreed, APOLLON... all looking good, not sweating anything right now, we'll see how it looks in a few months, hoping it all stays stable. A little surprised the T jumped so much (330 to 697) going from 80 to 100mg/week but the doc said that it can do that when she raised the dose. And, heh...

Thankfully I've never had any problems with gynecomastia... hadn't even heard of that as a problem for men with Graves' but a quick search seems to indicate it as more of a 'presenting' feature. I had lots of those (including the rare pretibial myxedema), but not gynecomastia, and they're mostly...

Excellent analogy, Megatron, thanks for the tips. Gonna order some private labs soon so I can go in armed in September if necessary.

Thanks, Megatron28, wasn't too worried on the original low dose but now that I'm well into normal territory your advice is well-taken. Now that I think about it, I did manage to ask the doc about E2 on my last visit and she said she was more "symptoms oriented" or something like that and wasn't...

Nope, hasn't checked E2 in any of my labs. Might ask about it on my next visit in September, since the T number is no longer hanging out at the bottom end of the range. Had so many questions on my last visit I didn't get around to asking about E2. Luckily I'm not really having any symptoms of...

So here's what the results were: Labs taken May 9th (on dose day, before injection): Testosterone 330 ng/dl (range 292-867) SHBG 33 nmol/l (range 16-94) Calc. free Test 6.6 ng/dl (range 4.8-25.0) Based on this I talked the doc into 100mg E7D (up from prescribed 160mg E14D, actual 80mg E7D)...

I bought some 23ga x 1" from RUI to split my dose since my script was for 21ga x 1" and they were a lot more expensive at my pharmacy. Works fine but a bit of a pain to draw with the 23's. Been working just fine for me. I was buying something else from them anyway so it was convenient just to...

Been lurking here a while and have learned a lot but wanted to ask for some advice on my specific situation. 48 years old, have a long-time endo who treats me for Graves' disease, asked her in January about possible low-T. Test results were: Testosterone 240 ng/dl (range 292-867) SHBG 26...