For a long time I was on a simple TRT protocol that looked like this:
Every 3.5 days
50mg Cypionate
500iu HCG
With that, my labs looked like this (reference range in parentheses):
Total testosterone 820 (264 - 916)
Free testosterone 15 (6.8 - 21.5)
DHEA 142.8 (102.6 - 416.3)
Estradiol sensitive 23.2 (8.0 - 35.0)
SHBG 40.5 (16.5 - 55.9)
On this protocol, and eating lots of good calories, I'm able to put on a lot of muscle and my strength is great. For personal reasons I stopped everything cold turkey. 5 weeks later I was amazed at how much I lost. I looked and felt like shit. Total crash. E2 was basically zero, total testosterone was 50. So I started the protocol again. Only difference is that now I do 150mg Cypionate per week (on the advice of 2 doctors).
Well... it's been 6 weeks and something isn't right. I've been in the gym for 20 years so I know how my body should respond. My strength is basically back to where it was, and my weight is even the same. But I don't "look" big anymore, and I'm soft... not full and hard like I used to be. What could be happening? Logic tells me the only thing that's different is that my testosterone is higher, so E2 also higher? Could that be the problem?
Would love to hear some thought bc this is really bumming me out.
Every 3.5 days
50mg Cypionate
500iu HCG
With that, my labs looked like this (reference range in parentheses):
Total testosterone 820 (264 - 916)
Free testosterone 15 (6.8 - 21.5)
DHEA 142.8 (102.6 - 416.3)
Estradiol sensitive 23.2 (8.0 - 35.0)
SHBG 40.5 (16.5 - 55.9)
On this protocol, and eating lots of good calories, I'm able to put on a lot of muscle and my strength is great. For personal reasons I stopped everything cold turkey. 5 weeks later I was amazed at how much I lost. I looked and felt like shit. Total crash. E2 was basically zero, total testosterone was 50. So I started the protocol again. Only difference is that now I do 150mg Cypionate per week (on the advice of 2 doctors).
Well... it's been 6 weeks and something isn't right. I've been in the gym for 20 years so I know how my body should respond. My strength is basically back to where it was, and my weight is even the same. But I don't "look" big anymore, and I'm soft... not full and hard like I used to be. What could be happening? Logic tells me the only thing that's different is that my testosterone is higher, so E2 also higher? Could that be the problem?
Would love to hear some thought bc this is really bumming me out.