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If my labs come back with let’s say tt of 750 and I have no side effects but still no libido and feeling OK, but still like I was befor trt maybe a little bit better in terms of energy what would your doctors recommend ? Up my dose ? (I am on 120mg doing labs in 2 months)
AlphaMD's Answer
Let's take a look at that TT first. First, what age are you (or age range)? Second, what was your TT before you started therapy?
The younger you are the more (generally) SHBG you have in your body raising your TT than when you're older. So a young man with 500 TT may have less Free Testosterone than an older man with 450 TT.
Depending on the second answer, a big part of therapy is how you feel & where you started. Someone going to 500 from 200 may feel like a god because for them that's amazing, whereas someone else at 700 going to 500 might feel like absolute trash because 700 was normal for them.
Personally, I did not feel much of a change at 120mg per week. I feel great and feel a change in libido at ~200mg per week. Other patients have had their mental & physical health improved at 100mg per week.
If you were our patient, knowing all those factors, we would potentially increase your dose to where you feel the results you want out of treatment. That's always the goal, get people to where they feel right & want to be.
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