Systemlord
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Hello everyone,
I have had a bad string of luck with my TRT doctors and decided to join Kaiser Permanente and I feel like my new doctor is paying too much attention to the numbers and not interested in how I'm feeling. I was originally on 200mg E3W which was never going to work, I saw my new endo and I told her I wanted weekly injections to reduce the peaks and valleys. So that same day she lowered me from the 200mg every three weeks to 75mg every week, I started with the 75mg injection roughly a week after my last 200mg injection and I had my best week ever since starting TRT! That was four weeks ago and I'm feeling lower each week since then, I told her that and she said I'm right where I need to be. How can she determine I'm where I need to be by simply looking at my numbers and not bothering to ask how I actually feel? I told her I feel quite low on injection day and the day after, very frustrating! My last doctor told me the same thing when I was at 1200ng/dL with my E2 at 52 and now I'm where I need to be at 531ng/dL? I can only guess where I'm at on injection day, likely half! I know the reason I felt great that first week was because I already had test in my system when I receive the 75mg injection which likely added to what I already had putting me at a sweet spot. I'm losing hope of ever getting better!
Injections on Mondays,
4 Days after Injection 75mg Cyp
TESTOSTERONE, TOTAL 531 ng/dL 240 - 871 ng/dL
TESTOSTERONE, FREE, CALCULATED 15.2 ng/dL 7.0 - 36.7 ng/dL
SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN 18 nmol/L 11 - 78 nmol/L
CHOLESTEROL 163 mg/dL <=199 mg/dL
HDL 28 mg/dL >=40 mg/dL
LDL 91 mg/dL <=99 mg/dL
TRIGLYCERIDE, NONFASTING 274 mg/dL <=149 mg/dL
CHOLESTEROL, NON-HDL 135 mg/dL
HGBA1C% 6.8 % <=6.9 %
ESTIMATED AVERAGE GLUCOSE 149 mg/dL
IRON 61 mcg/dL 59 - 158 mcg/dL
TOTAL IRON BINDING CAPACITY 425 mcg/dL 250 - 425 mcg/dL
IRON SAT 14 % 20 - 50 %
WBC'S AUTO 6.4 x1000/mcL 4.0 - 11.0 x1000/mcL
RBC, AUTO 5.37 Mill/mcL 4.70 - 6.10 Mill/mcL
HGB 16.0 g/dL 14.0 - 18.0 g/dL
HCT, AUTO 46.0 % 42.0 - 52.0 %
MCV 85.7 fL 80.0 - 94.0 fL
MCH 29.8 pg/cell 27.0 - 35.0 pg/cell
MCHC 34.8 g/dL 32.0 - 37.0 g/dL
RDW, BLOOD 12.9 % 11.5 - 14.5 %
PLATELETS, AUTOMATED COUNT 269 x1000/mcL 130 - 400 x1000/mcL
I have had a bad string of luck with my TRT doctors and decided to join Kaiser Permanente and I feel like my new doctor is paying too much attention to the numbers and not interested in how I'm feeling. I was originally on 200mg E3W which was never going to work, I saw my new endo and I told her I wanted weekly injections to reduce the peaks and valleys. So that same day she lowered me from the 200mg every three weeks to 75mg every week, I started with the 75mg injection roughly a week after my last 200mg injection and I had my best week ever since starting TRT! That was four weeks ago and I'm feeling lower each week since then, I told her that and she said I'm right where I need to be. How can she determine I'm where I need to be by simply looking at my numbers and not bothering to ask how I actually feel? I told her I feel quite low on injection day and the day after, very frustrating! My last doctor told me the same thing when I was at 1200ng/dL with my E2 at 52 and now I'm where I need to be at 531ng/dL? I can only guess where I'm at on injection day, likely half! I know the reason I felt great that first week was because I already had test in my system when I receive the 75mg injection which likely added to what I already had putting me at a sweet spot. I'm losing hope of ever getting better!
Injections on Mondays,
4 Days after Injection 75mg Cyp
TESTOSTERONE, TOTAL 531 ng/dL 240 - 871 ng/dL
TESTOSTERONE, FREE, CALCULATED 15.2 ng/dL 7.0 - 36.7 ng/dL
SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN 18 nmol/L 11 - 78 nmol/L
CHOLESTEROL 163 mg/dL <=199 mg/dL
HDL 28 mg/dL >=40 mg/dL
LDL 91 mg/dL <=99 mg/dL
TRIGLYCERIDE, NONFASTING 274 mg/dL <=149 mg/dL
CHOLESTEROL, NON-HDL 135 mg/dL
HGBA1C% 6.8 % <=6.9 %
ESTIMATED AVERAGE GLUCOSE 149 mg/dL
IRON 61 mcg/dL 59 - 158 mcg/dL
TOTAL IRON BINDING CAPACITY 425 mcg/dL 250 - 425 mcg/dL
IRON SAT 14 % 20 - 50 %
WBC'S AUTO 6.4 x1000/mcL 4.0 - 11.0 x1000/mcL
RBC, AUTO 5.37 Mill/mcL 4.70 - 6.10 Mill/mcL
HGB 16.0 g/dL 14.0 - 18.0 g/dL
HCT, AUTO 46.0 % 42.0 - 52.0 %
MCV 85.7 fL 80.0 - 94.0 fL
MCH 29.8 pg/cell 27.0 - 35.0 pg/cell
MCHC 34.8 g/dL 32.0 - 37.0 g/dL
RDW, BLOOD 12.9 % 11.5 - 14.5 %
PLATELETS, AUTOMATED COUNT 269 x1000/mcL 130 - 400 x1000/mcL
