Clomid Restart....Is it working?

[JonnyBravo22]

Baseline

Total Test 275 ng/dl (250 - 1100)
Bioavailable 100 ng/dl (110.0 - 575)
Free 46 pg/ml (46 - 224)
SHBG 22 nmol/L (10 - 50)
FSH 3.3 (1.6 - 11)
LH 5.2 (0.8 - 6.1)

After 2 weeks of 50mg ED Clomid

Total Test 762
Bioavailable 281
Free 128
SHBG 27
Beat Estradiol 51.83 pg/mL (7.63 - 42.60)


After 1 month off Clomid (3 days ago)

Total Test 519
Bioavailable 172.4
Free 78
SHBG 28


Symptoms
1. Mood is the same (up and down sometimes manic) .....same
2 Energy is up and down ........same
3. Strength in the gym went up and is now coming back down

STILL NO SEX DRIVE...this is the worst. Maybe one time over the last 2 months I had any type of drive. Almost no morning erections.

Advice on what to do from here. I am currently on NO medications.

Edit: Just got off the phone with Doctor. He said no further testing is needed and I am normal and that this is NOT a trt situation. Told me to take care basically even after I asked if we should retest in a month.

 

[Daniel_IMT_Staff]

Hello Jonny,

Hopefully you will continue to feel better, the libido may take a while to come back. Your body needs to readjust and this takes time.

Get labs done in a month or two again to see how you are doing. You can get labs done through us if your doc doesn't want to order the labs or go through privatemd.

Best of luck to you!

 

[Alpin]

I remember this doc. This is that 80 year old who does not treat second hypogonadism. He gave you real poor service imo. He should have run the clomid longer at least.
I thought you were on 100 mg ED for 2 weeks?
I see you wrote 50 mg ED for 2 weeks as your restart dose.
Your thread says otherwise.

 

[Alpin]

Your T level is decent. You responded quite well to the clomid and u had pretty high LH/FSH levels.
Must have something to do with your age and your leydigs are in good shape. If the T comes down more I would run another restart....properly too. 50 mg EOD for 4 months should suffice. Hopefully you are taking zinc and a good quality vit. E and working out to keep b.f. low
Good luck my friend.

 

[spaced_out]

How's your energy throughout the day now, versus pre-trt/clomid?

Any differences or is it all numbers?

 

[JonnyBravo22]

Sorry Apollon you are correct I didn't check my other thread before writing this up and had forgotten.

Energy levels are up and down. Some days better than others. The doctor said he wants me to treat the psychological side of things. The manic depression. He says that is the only thing he can think of for my lack of sex drive.

I would say at this point it is all numbers.

 

[spaced_out]

I'm here for u man. This depression is pretty messed up. I know sometimes u can use someone to talk to. Just hit me up

 

[Alpin]

Johnny those psych drugs thst doc might want you to take are KNOWN for lowering T. They lower LH/FSH also they raise prolactin. There are studies showing so.
Tread carefully.

 

[Alpin]

One more problem I see is this old endo did not even order LH/FSH tests on you after the clomid trial.
Talk about bad service.