Friends, I have been on TRT (150mg pw) for approximately three years and it has changed my life for the better in so many ways. Along with a clean diet, 7-8 hours of sleep per night and intense workouts up to 5 days per week I am in the best health space and level of physical fitness of my life. I am pushing 60, but look years younger. My trough number is about 450 with low hematocrit (I donate), low E2 and no discernible atrophy or gyno. And it has also reversed the bone density issues I have had for years due to the bad steroids I had to take for an autoimmune disease. After three years of having to go to my doc's office for injections, he finally parted with the institutional policy and gave me a script for home injection. Very happy about that.
Every year my pals look progressively older and suffer more medical issues because they do not take steps to promote the best possible health. They ask me what I do to stay so fit and robust. I freely share my thoughts on the benefits of proper diet, sleep and exercise. But the fact is that I was doing all of those things before I was diagnosed with hypogonadism, primary. It has been the TRT that has made all the difference.
But I do not share that fact. I am not comfortable revealing that I am on a course of TRT. Fact is that I do not want to be lumped in the same brain place as those who abuse steroids for fun or profit. No one harbors ill thoughts of someone who is obliged to take insulin or B-12 injections. And no woman would chide another who was on estrogen replacement therapy. But TRT is different. And it trouble me every time I read about yet another athlete whose secretly juices for advantage because it just widens the black hole of public perception that sucks us all in. Beyond that, I have committed myself to a lifestyle that has paid off. The TRT has allowed me to reach these goals. Those who do not understand the physiology of TRT, including the fractional doses that we take to maintain a healthy, but not supra-physiologic level, could cynically attribute my level of fitness as coming exclusively from a bottle.
It is a shame. I would like to be able to share my experience with others who may benefit from this therapy as I have. But not a the cost of having to defend it or myself.
So how do you guys deal with this issue? Or is it not an issue for you.
Cheers.
Every year my pals look progressively older and suffer more medical issues because they do not take steps to promote the best possible health. They ask me what I do to stay so fit and robust. I freely share my thoughts on the benefits of proper diet, sleep and exercise. But the fact is that I was doing all of those things before I was diagnosed with hypogonadism, primary. It has been the TRT that has made all the difference.
But I do not share that fact. I am not comfortable revealing that I am on a course of TRT. Fact is that I do not want to be lumped in the same brain place as those who abuse steroids for fun or profit. No one harbors ill thoughts of someone who is obliged to take insulin or B-12 injections. And no woman would chide another who was on estrogen replacement therapy. But TRT is different. And it trouble me every time I read about yet another athlete whose secretly juices for advantage because it just widens the black hole of public perception that sucks us all in. Beyond that, I have committed myself to a lifestyle that has paid off. The TRT has allowed me to reach these goals. Those who do not understand the physiology of TRT, including the fractional doses that we take to maintain a healthy, but not supra-physiologic level, could cynically attribute my level of fitness as coming exclusively from a bottle.
It is a shame. I would like to be able to share my experience with others who may benefit from this therapy as I have. But not a the cost of having to defend it or myself.
So how do you guys deal with this issue? Or is it not an issue for you.
Cheers.
