Spunkey71
New member
As some of you may know I have been on TRT now for three months. When I first started TRT I had a my Total Testosterone of 64 and now after three months I am up to 510. Like many of you I felt the difference after only a couple of weeks but really felt a significant difference after about the 6th week. Starting TRT has truly been a life changing experience for me, before starting TRT like many of you I had no energy, was very lethargic, depressed, grumpy, always tired and just had no desire to do anything.
It did not take long before I started to feel like I could start doing all the things that I did when I was younger and the first thing on my list was to lose weight and get into shape. Having low T for as long as I did I got fat, very fat, I would eat crap and then sit on my ass and just watch TV or sleep. The first thing I did was to hire 3J to design a diet for me and I have followed it to the letter and have seen great results (30 pounds in 10 weeks). I then went out and got a gym membership and started hitting the gym 4-5 days a week doing cardio and resistance training. I felt so good that I started to really push myself in the gym and started lifting heavy with a lot of intensity like I did when I was in my early 20’s and was able to really grow. I started to see some results from my time in the gym and this only spurred me on to work even harder and I have been very happy with my new outlook on life and lifestyle.
Well about a week ago everything changed, while doing my second set of squats, now remember I am a big guy (370) so I don’t go very heavy on squats, 15 reps at 135 as I was coming up I felt my knee pop. I can only think of one other time that I have felt more pain than that moment and I knew I had blown my knee out. I took a couple days off from the gym and wrapped up my knee and hit the gym to work shoulders. While doing my second or third set of lateral raises I felt my elbow pop and again experienced pain almost unlike any other that I have ever felt.
I went to see an orthopedic today and was given the bad news, I must go under the knife and have surgery on both my knee and elbow. The moral of this story is that TRT truly is amazing, yes it can make you feel like you did when you were in your early 20’s but we must remember that we are not 20 any longer, our bodies do age and we need to slowly progress. The worst part of all of this is that I have not been able to workout in a little over a week and it is killing me, I can’t wait to get these surgeries done with so I can get back into the gym. Even though I have to have surgery on both my knee and elbow I do not regret getting back in the gym or starting TRT, nothing will stop me from regaining my life!
It did not take long before I started to feel like I could start doing all the things that I did when I was younger and the first thing on my list was to lose weight and get into shape. Having low T for as long as I did I got fat, very fat, I would eat crap and then sit on my ass and just watch TV or sleep. The first thing I did was to hire 3J to design a diet for me and I have followed it to the letter and have seen great results (30 pounds in 10 weeks). I then went out and got a gym membership and started hitting the gym 4-5 days a week doing cardio and resistance training. I felt so good that I started to really push myself in the gym and started lifting heavy with a lot of intensity like I did when I was in my early 20’s and was able to really grow. I started to see some results from my time in the gym and this only spurred me on to work even harder and I have been very happy with my new outlook on life and lifestyle.
Well about a week ago everything changed, while doing my second set of squats, now remember I am a big guy (370) so I don’t go very heavy on squats, 15 reps at 135 as I was coming up I felt my knee pop. I can only think of one other time that I have felt more pain than that moment and I knew I had blown my knee out. I took a couple days off from the gym and wrapped up my knee and hit the gym to work shoulders. While doing my second or third set of lateral raises I felt my elbow pop and again experienced pain almost unlike any other that I have ever felt.
I went to see an orthopedic today and was given the bad news, I must go under the knife and have surgery on both my knee and elbow. The moral of this story is that TRT truly is amazing, yes it can make you feel like you did when you were in your early 20’s but we must remember that we are not 20 any longer, our bodies do age and we need to slowly progress. The worst part of all of this is that I have not been able to workout in a little over a week and it is killing me, I can’t wait to get these surgeries done with so I can get back into the gym. Even though I have to have surgery on both my knee and elbow I do not regret getting back in the gym or starting TRT, nothing will stop me from regaining my life!
