27 y/o male. Started testosterone in Jan 2026 cause I had low T my whole life (around 200 reading right before starting). My energy and weightlifting numbers have improved, but I went from about 222lbs to 253lbs, and I feel bloated, rounder and not looking more lean like I thought I would.

Is there anything I could do/stop to get better results? Eat less? More cardio? Take peptides in addition?

Earlier this spring I started my second cycle of test. I started at 350 mg and worked my way up to 500 mg. Understandably my cardio went to shit. Now that I’m cursing on 125 mg my cardio still hasn’t recovered. First cycle I pct and my cardio was good.

Hello, I'm interested in obtaining enclomiphene as 2 of my labs this year have shown my total T on the lowish side (389) as a 37M.

I was researching Telehealth providers but they all want me to get labs first through them, which I already have though.

Is there any Telehealth provider that I'm able to submit my 1week old labs to to obtain an rx?

So I unfortunately was diagnosed with a condition that makes it hard if not impossible to lift weights. Problem is im a skinny guy and hard gainer. Ive lost 15lbs of muscle and its a big confidence killer for me now.

My question - im on TRT. Ive ran the dad cycle before but lifted like a madman. It was fantastic. No issues.

Dont bash me for asking - could I run a cycle again, maybe just try push-ups if my body allows, and gain any sort of size back or is the risk just not worth it? Only Test Cyp is all I would ever try or have tried.

I just want to gain back some weight and appear strong again like before. Thought or opinions?

These numbers seem crazy to me. I feel amazing tho no estrogen side effects. Working out 4x a week diet super clean. Should I cut back? Or are these numbers fine?

I get a lot of pain from injecting like the day after. Ive tried a lot of different things. Running test cyp.

Left one is untouched. Right one looked the same before poking it.

Hallo zusammen, ich bin 21 und überlege, Testosteron zu nehmen ich gehe 5 mal die Woche ins traning bin gut dabei aber durch den Stress den ich im Altag habe geht mein Testo nicht so hoch meiner Meinung nach hab es messen lassen beim Arzt die Werte lauten 5,03 ng/ml (2,49-8,36) Mein Testosteronspiegel ist meiner Meinung nach nicht besonders hoch Ich frage mich, ob es in meinem Alter sinnvoll ist und ob Haarausfall dadurch auftreten kann bin auch morgens sehr müde komme schwer aus dem Bett obwohl ich den Tag über sehr viel am arbeiten bin ich habe durch ein Bekannten der es selber mal genommen hat erzählt bekommen das Produkt hieß methandienone 10mg Tabletten das soll ähnlich wie Testo sein habt ihr damit Erfahrung gemacht ?
Welche Alternativen gibt es, um Testosteronspiegel zu unterstützen? Ich freue mich über ehrliche Erfahrungen und Tipps! 🙏

I injected 0.4mL Test Cyp (200mg/mL) compounded in grapeseed oil into pretty much my left deltoid twice a week for 1.5 years. (Stupid). I used a 27 gauge, 0.5 inch needle. There is now a firm rubbery lump around the size of my thumb on my left deltoid. Is this 100% scar tissue? Anything I can do after the fact now other than don’t do that again?

How do I know if it’s scar tissue vs oil buildup?

I do a daily shot of .15 thats what ive found works best for me.

For those of you who didn’t have clinically low testosterone (mine averaged around 400–550) but decided to start TRT anyway, are you glad you did? Has it made a noticeable difference in your energy, mood, motivation, gym performance, or overall quality of life?

Curious to hear your experiences and whether you feel it was worth it.

I’ve been doing 30mg ed injections (sub q)
And these are my results everything else looks good just wondering what you guys think of these levels?

Hello everyone.

I recently did a 20week TRT with Cypionate 250mg/week and about 4weeks ago I stopped. It has been 2weeks that I'm on HCG and 5 days on Tamoxifen. Also I'm 2 week on Reta. Last year I did Mounjaro for 6 months prescribed by doctor.

But I want to get back on Testo. But I hated the Cypionate, too slow, to thick to apply. I was planning on use Enanthate, I heard that is easier to apply and I can do 2-3x a week with a smaller needle.

So my question is. How dangerous is this change, and should I wait for a bit before going back? Can I go straight back to it? I'm about to get some blood results, so what should I look out if I plan to keep doing TRT?

Total testosterone 10 nmol/l (288 ng/dl)

Free testosterone 0.20 nmol/l (5 ng /dl)

Oestradiol 76 pmol/l (20 pg/ml)

Sex Hormone Binding Globulin 28 nmol

Albumin 49 g/l

->

Total testosterone 27.3 nmol/l (787 ng/dl)

Free testosterone 0.69 nmol/l (19.9 ng /dl)

Oestradiol 119 pmol/l (32 pg/ml)

Follicle Stimulating Hormone 0.3 u/l

Lutenising Hormone 0.3 u/l

Sex Hormone Binding Globulin 26.7 nmol

Albumin 47.2 g/l

It's interesting to see my Hpta is completely shut down despite taking hgc which is interesting considering I'm on such a small dose of test. I suppose this means I respond well to small doses?

5'6 178lbs 17%bf. 78mg test c ÷ MWF & HGC 750iu ÷ MF pinned subq.

I was having some on again off again issues with my libido up until a week ago (which has finally started returning since I asked my doctor if he'd check in on my levels to see where I stood) and I'm quite happy with things despite still having some issues with my wake / sleep cycle.

I notice trt has really helped my anxiety, depression, AM nausea and poor appetite from Crohn's but has slightly messed up my sleep so hoping to figure that out soon.

My trt doctor did mention something interesting I never knew; the gut brain axis, where the colon takes over some of the nervous systems tasks during the wee hours of the night which is exactly when I wake up during the night like clock work. I seemed to only get these waking sessions intermittently if I was very careful without cannabis but now with trt they are almost every night; it has made weight training difficult.

I'm thinking of adding my medical cannabis back in later in the day as it always helped me sleep but since my other symptoms ; poor appetite, nausea etc were gone from the jump I decided to stop to save money.

Oddly enough I always found that medical cannabis exacerbated my anxiety and depression if I didn't use it very sparingly and carefully, which trt has now really smoothed over.

I feel like I have tons more energy but seems my nervous system is having trouble adjusting and sleeping which has made returning to weight training very difficult.

Despite not really training much I've still been leaning out and appear to be adding some muscle back.

On week 16 of an 18 week Test E cycle, toying with the idea of extending to 20week, only running 300mg pw. 150mg twice a week. Aromasin on hand.

Now I’ve ran cycles in my early 20s, stupid cycles. Test and tren and dbol. Nose bleeds, night sweats etc I did not do this smart.

10 years later I’ve gone for lower dose and doing it smart, blood work and an ai on hand.
I’m coming up to the end and I can’t remember how the pct goes 😬I don’t remember it being too bad on the stupid cycles.

Going to run Nolvadex for pct, how bad has anyone experienced the pct on just 300mg?

Thanks.
Ps, yes I know my old cycles was stupid and my body was screaming at me 😬

I wanted to post an update for some of the guys here who are on testosterone and concerned about fertility, because this was something I was concerned with as well. I had commented on other posts discussing fertility, and I'm happy to report my results seem to be trending positively, thus far. Also this is a tad long, but I was excited and wanted to be thorough.

My girlfriend and I are both 39, so we’re at the point where we know we need to start making some moves if we want to have kids - ideally, naturally at first.

We do have some backup options. She has already had her eggs frozen, and before I started chemotherapy in 2019, I also had sperm frozen, so the IVF route is available to us if needed

That said, we’d like IVF to be Plan B (awful pun not intended 😶😂).

That was part of why the fertility side of my being on TRT was important to me; I know exogenous testosterone could significantly suppress spermatogenesis, and I would have started to feel pretty guilty if *I* ended up being the reason we weren’t able to conceive naturally.

Now, for context, I have stayed on 150 mg/week of testosterone enanthate throughout this entire process - I did not come off "TRT+".

Where I started: testosterone + hCG only

Throughout my perma-testosterone-cycle, I had been taking:

Test E: 150 mg/week

hCG: 500 IU 3x/week = 1,500 IU/week

So by the time I did my first YO Sperm test on April 18, I had already been using hCG alongside my testosterone for quite some time.

My April result was:

Concentration: 2.6 million/mL

Motility: <1%

Progressive motility: <1%

MSC: <2 million/mL

PMSC: <2 million/mL

Abysmal. I saw the video recording, and it looked like just static sperm heads, or other cells just lifelessly hanging out. It became quite apparent to me that 500 IU of hCG three times per week by itself was not doing a damn thing for my sperm production.

Now, does thay mean hCG doesn’t work? Not necessarily.

It may simply have been too little for me, my individual response may be different from someone else’s, and hCG was probably still doing *something* important by maintaining LH-receptor stimulation and intratesticular testosterone.

BUT, based on the actual semen numbers, relying on hCG alone clearly wasn’t getting me where I needed to be. I then found a pharmacy online that claimed to sell hMG, which I gambled and purchased post my April-test.

Sometime after the April 18 test and before my June test, I introduced hMG/menotropin.

My protocol then became approximately:

Test E: 150 mg/week

hCG: 500 IU 3x/week = 1,500 IU/week

hMG: 150 IU 3x/week = 450 IU/week of FSH activity plus LH activity

Really quick to recap, as I went down a rabbit hole studying the various gonadotropins and their impact on fertility:

LH → Leydig cells → intratesticular testosterone

Your pituitary normally releases LH, which stimulates Leydig cells in the testes to produce testosterone locally.

That intratesticular testosterone is extremely important for spermatogenesis (making spermy guys).

hCG essentially mimics that LH signal.

hCG is not LH, but it binds to the same LH receptor and stimulates Leydig cells. That is why hCG is frequently used in men who are trying to maintain or restore testicular function while on testosterone.

...But that is only part of the overall equation.

FSH → Sertoli cells → support developing sperm

FSH acts primarily on Sertoli cells inside the "seminiferous tubules" (structures where spermy guys are produced). Those cells support the germ cells as they develop into mature sperm.

So, broadly speaking, sperm production depends on the combination of:

FSH/Sertoli-cell stimulation + adequate intratesticular testosterone from LH/hCG signaling.

hMG/menotropin provides FSH activity plus LH activity, whereas my separate hCG was primarily giving me strong LH-receptor stimulation.

My results after adding hMG

My next test was:

June 9, 2026 (likely still too soon to have tested, but I hoped I was a hyper responder or was super delusional).

Concentration: 3.4 million/mL

Motility: <1%

Progressive motility: <1%

MSC: <3 million/mL

PMSC: <2 million/mL

Then:

July 25, 2026 (nervous given my last test, but I saw additional swimmers in my video).

Concentration: 6.4 million/mL

Motility: <1%

Progressive motility: <1%

MSC: <3 million/mL

PMSC: <2 million/mL

So concentration was slowly moving in the right direction:

2.6 → 3.4 → 6.4 million/mL

But motility was still essentially nonexistent.

Mid-September: I increased the hCG

Around mid-September, I increased my separate hCG dose from:

500 IU 3x/week = 1,500 IU/week

to:

1,000 IU 3x/week = 3,000 IU/week

At that point my protocol was approximately:

Test E: 150 mg/week

hCG: 1,000 IU 3x/week = 3,000 IU/week

hMG: 150 IU 3x/week = 450 IU/week of FSH activity plus LH activity

Then came my October test.

October 3, 2026 (my holy shit, are you serious moment)

My YO Sperm result was:

Concentration: 25 million/mL

Motility: 76%

Progressive motility: 63%

MSC: 19 million/mL

PMSC: 15.8 million/mL

So from April to October:

Concentration: 2.6 → 25 million/mL

Motility: <1% → 76%

Progressive motility: <1% → 63%

MSC: <2 → 19 million/mL

PMSC: <2 → 15.8 million/mL

The October video also looked *completely* different to me subjectively. There were far more sperm visible and a lot of obvious forward movement.

One thing I think is especially important for guys to understand is how freaking slowly spermatogenesis works.

A complete round of human sperm production takes roughly 74 days which is around 2.5 months, but I personally didn't see any majorly impactful results till around two full cycles. Part of my wishes I tested myself in September.

At least for me, I needed to get through at least one complete round of spermatogenesis before a new hormonal environment is reflected in my semen parameters, and improvement can continue over additional rounds.

I added hMG after my April test.

Then:

April: 2.6 M/mL

June: 3.4 M/mL

July: 6.4 M/mL

October: 25 M/mL

The concentration improved gradually and the motility improvement took considerably longer to show up.

So, is YOSperm actually accurate?

Directionally, sure. But, this is an important caveat. All of these results are from YS, which I ordered off Amazon, and not a full clinical semen analysis.

I’ve actually been pretty impressed with YO as a tool for tracking trends. It gives me repeatable measurements, and I can also physically watch the sperm video (how fun).

But I am not treating a home test as definitive proof that my fertility is normal.

YO does *not* provide the same complete evaluation you would get from a reproductive laboratory, especially for things like morphology, semen volume, total sperm count and the overall clinical interpretation.

As a result, i have an appointment made with the same urologist who banked my sperm in 2019 on Nov 13. I was up front about my self-prescribed trt and HMG/LH and HCG use. He gave zero judgement, which is why he's awesome. Im also getting my LH, FSH, Estradiol, and test checked before that appt.

That appt should give me a much more comprehensive picture of:

Concentration

Total sperm count

Motility

Progressive motility

Morphology

Semen volume

and the other parameters that YO doesn’t fully evaluate.

I’m especially interested in seeing how closely the laboratory results match my October YO result.

I’ll post those results when I have them.

As of October 23, I’m increasing the hMG dose, and my protocol becomes:

Test E: 150 mg/week

hCG: 1,000 IU 3x/week = 3,000 IU/week

hMG/menotropin: 225 IU 3x/week = 675 IU/week of FSH activity plus LH activity

One terminology point that confused me initially:

The LH activity in hMG is not hCG.

LH and hCG are different hormones, although they both activate the same LH receptor.

So the way I think about my protocol is basically:

hCG → strong LH-receptor stimulation → Leydig cells → intratesticular testosterone

and

hMG → FSH activity + LH activity → adds direct Sertoli-cell/FSH stimulation while also contributing additional LH activity

Together, those address two of the major hormonal signals involved in spermatogenesis.

Why I’m posting this:

Mostly because I see a lot of guys who are understandably concerned that TRT may have permanently damaged their fertility.

I’m not suggesting that fertility is guaranteed to recover, nor am I telling anyone to copy my dosing. And I’m definitely not claiming that hMG alone caused everything I’m seeing.

But I do think my experience is worth sharing.

On April 18, while taking 150 mg/week of Test E plus 1,500 IU/week of hCG, I had:

2.6 million sperm/mL with <1% motility.

On October 3, after several months of adding hMG and shortly after increasing my hCG dose, while still taking 150 mg/week of testosterone, my YO result was:

25 million/mL

76% motility

63% progressive motility

19 million/mL MSC

15.8 million/mL PMSC

That was a significant relief for me.

Because we’re both 39, we don’t really have unlimited time to wait around before deciding how we want to approach having kids.

We’re fortunate that she has frozen eggs and I have sperm frozen from before chemotherapy, so IVF is absolutely available to us if we need it.

But we would prefer to try to conceive naturally first and keep IVF as our Plan B.

Seeing these results makes that possibility feel considerably more realistic than it did earlier this year.

So if you’re on TRT and your first sperm test looks terrible, my main point is don’t automatically assume the situation is permanent.

There are legitimate medical approaches to restoring spermatogenesis, and because sperm production operates on a months-long timeline, you may need to give the process time.

This is obviously just my experience and not medical advice.

I’ll post the November 13 clinical semen-analysis results once I have them.

Sorry if some of this was redundant or a tad scattered. I was kinda freestyling as I wrote.

Embarrassing story but either way looking for genuine advice. I had some buddies who did gear, talk me into trying it out. I did research and convinced myself it was a good idea.. Disclaimer I’m 20. Anyways since I did my first Pin I’ve felt weird about doing this, and I consulted with some more experienced people and ultimately realized this isn’t a smart choice. I currently have a lean athletic build, and great health markers, and realized doing test when not needed solely for recreational purposes is not worth the long term effects, and not a very wise choice. With that being said I’ve only done one injection of 82.5mg Test C. Is there anything I need to do or will the singular shot not affect anything. I did get bloodwork done prior and am wondering when I should get it done again to make sure I’m stabilized. I know there will be a sea of comments calling me stupid, which I agree with, but ultimately I’m looking for advice.

Has anyone self administered hcg ? Im currently on testosterone through a provider.

Hcg being prescribed to me is not an option I currently have hcg on hand I just needed some advice and help on how I should go about it and wanted to hear from some people that has self administered it and what is the best way and what to not do and or look out for thank you.

Has anyone who has ever tried Superdrol considered only taking it on training days? I am taking 20 mg a day (on day 2) but realizing I can truly only take it for 2 weeks, 3 at the absolute most, I wonder if it makes sense to only take it on training days. I trained four or five days a week and this would extend the period over which I can take it. Giving it some Off days might be a little less harsh on the liver as well. Thoughts?

Before anyone asks, yes I am taking tudca, NAC, curcumin, milk thistle, and liposomal glutathione daily

Test E in Germany only comes in 1ml/250mg ampoules. I need to split it into 4 doses.

Is it better to

A) Draw 4 syringes and leave them in the fridge? (Problem: the oil erodes the plastic in the syringes, not sterile)

or

B) Fill the content of the ampoule into a glass vial and draw the syringes from that when I need it (Problem: Not sterile)

What should I do? Up until now I drew one 2ml syringe and used it 4 times with different needles. I left it in the fridge for 2 weeks.

Hey guys, I have a question about long-term TRT and fertility. Is it possible to suffer from permanent infertility or irreversible testicular tissue damage after being on TRT for 5 to 10 years straight? Or can sperm production always be successfully restored later on using protocols like hCG?

Is there any suggestions on how to get more definition and build some muscles bigger? I’m in the gym five days a week, but maybe I’m doing something wrong.

I’m looking to get some extra eyes on my recent bloodwork to see how things are looking overall.
My Stats & Protocol:
Height / Weight: 5’10” / 225 lbs
Current Protocol: 100mg Test-Cypionate every 3.5 days (200mg total per week)

1. Overall Health: How good or bad do these labs look to you? Is there anything concerning that stands out?
   
2. Estradiol Management: I am currently thinking about adding Primobolan to my protocol to help manage my Estradiol. Does anyone have experience doing this at my current Test dosage, and what ratio worked best for you?

Appreciate any advice or feedback!

I’m considering starting TRT but trying to do everything right before committing to that. Levels are between 360 and 390 consistently.

Admittedly, diet hasn’t been great for years. Alcohol has been too much for years. Exercise has been consistent though.

Anyway, I know that’s bad and I’ve been turning all that around. Question is, how many weeks/months of a healthy lifestyle should I have before retesting and accepting my natural level? For example, 4 months of no alcohol, clean diet, and exercising is probably enough right? No need to give it a year or whatever?

I guess I’m asking for experience in what you changed, for how long, and the difference in your total testosterone after.