Time for TRT?

[spudstr]

I'm 28 and just had my annual physical and while there I asked them to do my free test and total test in the blood work, since my wife and I just had to go through IVF due to me having a low swimmer count I figured hey why not I might just have low test levels.

Few weeks late I get a phone call back and sure enough, low free test and low end normal total test results.

Test Serum 335ng/dL 249-836
Free Test 8.9 pg/mL 9.3-26.5

So they want me to come back in now and repeat the test free and total test along with sex hormone binding globulin and follicle stimulating hormone

I'm 5 weeks into a 16 week cycle of test e 500/week primo 400/week 50mg var ED, I had the blood work done before I started this cycle. 5 years ago I did a cycle of 400mg/week primo and 50mg var for 8 weeks and did the normal pct.

Does this sound like I am a canidate for TRT/HRT?

 

[Zyglamail]

At your age with a number in lab range your likely going to have a hard time finding a doc to put you on TRT, but you never know. Id try some OTC stuff to lower SHBG and raise test and see how that makes you feel.

If you plan on continuing to run cycles Id probably just hold of on TRT.

 

[XMAN.]

r u done having kids ? or planing to ? u know once u start HRT ur chances will diminish , u already have low sperm count as u said.
my suggestion is try to recover from ur cycle, and i strongly suggest u keep ur cycles short not more than 8 weeks (and even 4 or 6 weeks r better with short esters), and try an aggressive PCT , Letro , clomid, HCG , HMG, try raising ur numbers naturally as much as u can, most docs won't put u on hrt before 30.

 

[spudstr]

r u done having kids ? or planing to ? u know once u start HRT ur chances will diminish , u already have low sperm count as u said.
my suggestion is try to recover from ur cycle, and i strongly suggest u keep ur cycles short not more than 8 weeks (and even 4 or 6 weeks r better with short esters), and try an aggressive PCT , Letro , clomid, HCG , HMG, try raising ur numbers naturally as much as u can, most docs won't put u on hrt before 30.

Due to fertility issues before we did IVF, the wife is preg now and we have 15 fertilized embryos that are frozen and mature. I can have a whole damn football team if we wanted to, they are chilling on ice right now.

Reason why we had to do IVF was due to low sperm counts and low mobility one test put me at 32m, another 19m, another 9mil then 4mil then 2mil. My results were all over the board

 

[XMAN.]

it's nice that u did the IVF it's a guarantee for the future, sorry i missed that in ur first post, but i still agree with zyg's suggestion to try some OTC drugs maybe an AI like aromasin or letro coupled with a low dose of clomid for a while and try to raise ur levels as much as u can for the time being (give it a 3 or 4 months trial), and btw how r u feeling generally? physically and mentally ? cuz that's what matters more than the numbers.
if u feel like shit all the time and none of the OTC's did improve ur well being
then of course HRT would be the only thing to do, but of course after checking ur bloods and make sure ur not prone to some serious health issues when supplementing with test later on.
hope u find a good understanding doc that can guide u with all this.
good luck.