Three weeks ago I got a compounded testosterone cream. Supposedly 300 mg of testosterone per dose, prescribed by a doctor, and filled at an FDA-controlled local pharmacy. I started using it and within a week fat started bloating my body. My muscles started shrinking. I still had some libido but a far cry from the once or twice a day type thing I had before.
I wasn't sure but I suspected something so this week I had my serum T tested 4 hours after dosing with 300 mg of T. Should have been well over 3000. But the result was only 1490. That means at the nadir I was at about 500.
I started Androgel earlier this week and already the muscles are coming back and I have lost a little fat - and the libido started coming back much to the wife's delight. A few weeks of medium-low T probably isn't going to do in my therapy but I'm glad I caught it early.
Lesson learned. Always test out the Test. I am stocking up on Androgel/Cernos gel (very similar and I have tested both of them - they both get my T high).
I think from now on I'm going to inject 400 mg of testosterone propionate on day 1 of HiT (slowly and in divided doses). And from day 2 on use 100 mg of Androgel or Cernos gel in the early morning and early afternoon.
This also might explain why most people state that gels/creams can't get your T up high enough. I thought it was because they were underdosing. But perhaps cream doesn't work as well as gel...?
Now to get to work on the rest of this fat. My NMD told me that a water/protein fast will work. For cancer, I assume water only. But for muscle retention, it sounds good to add the protein (and there is so much literature on exercise/muscles and prostate cancer mortality that perhaps the positive of retaining muscle mass outweighs the negatives).
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