@aleksander - DUDE! you're actually on it!? I'm going to lay out some questions and I hope you don't mind answering them. your time is truly appreciated answering these! Please don't feel obligated to answer any of these if they are too personal, but I think I am ready to get on it too. I am happy to read you say that you wish you had started sooner.
What led you to finally pull the trigger and get on it?
What are the most beneficial things you have noticed since you've been on it?
Have you noticed any hair thinning or acceleration in male pattern baldness if you have it already? That is one of my biggest fears about it since I have already done a lot of damage to my hair due to a few years of living an unhealthy lifestyle. I say I am worried about that, but I love buzzing my head and sometimes even shaving down to the scalp (although I haven't done that in a few years.) I guess the permanence of losing it is what worries me.
How has it affected your sex drive and libido?
What is your monthly cost for TRT?
What has it done for your skating if you are still skating?
Have you noticed that it is easier to burn body fat and build muscle?
You mentioned it changed your thinking as well... is that in how sharp you think?
What is your route of administration? If it is injections, are you used to them yet? - if you don't want to answer this question I understand.
Thanks again for taking the time!
Man, I was actually thinking of PMing you and telling you to ask if you had any questions about how it's gone, so for sure, no problem.
- What led you to finally pull the trigger and get on it?
Honestly I was waiting to turn 40, but that was just some abstract timeline, like it didn't really make any sense. I still trained MMA and competed in BJJ until I was about 37, so I don't know why I didn't jump on it after that, but I had like a weird sense of guilt about it at the time. Then I just kinda forgot about it. For sure wish I'd started earlier, would have saved myself from a ton of mental stress.
- What are the most beneficial things you have noticed since you've been on it?
Helped with depression 100%. Didn't make me aggro or anything, just lifted the brain fog and helped me get motivated. The gym and skating were always my therapists, so TRT kinda amplified the benefits of those because I could do them more. I did put on maybe 8 pounds of muscle and for sure some of that is chemical. There's absolutely a chemical aid, but also you're so motivated to get in the gym and eat cleaner, so it all compounds.
- Have you noticed any hair thinning or acceleration in male pattern baldness if you have it already?
Fortunately, I have never had an issue with this, but I think it's mostly lucky genetics.
- How has it affected your sex drive and libido?
Horny as a motherfucker, jesus christ. I would be down to fuck a dead goat about 12 hours after I pin. BTW I inject 100 mg a week, split up in two doses.
- What is your monthly cost for TRT?
It's totally skewed because I just order it from the major pharmacy chain here in Colombia and it's super cheap. It'd work out to about 20 bucks USD a month. My friends back in the states pay waaaay more, but all of them would say it's beyond worth it.
- What has it done for your skating if you are still skating?
I never really understood the idea of "recovery" until I was an old man, but it's truly like your legs and shit only work right for a short duration after a certain age and you need days to recover. TRT eliminates a lot of that, just kinda takes you back in time 10 years before your body called it quits.
- Have you noticed that it is easier to burn body fat and build muscle?
Absolutely. I've always been a gym rat just because it keeps my brain from getting too haywire, but it 100% makes a huge difference in strength, size, really all that jock shit.
- You mentioned it changed your thinking as well... is that in how sharp you think?
It was kinda more like it helped stop the really bad depression, so I guess got me back to near normal. When I got "tested" my level was right under 300 so maybe part of the depression was related to low t.
-- What is your route of administration? If it is injections, are you used to them yet?
Inject it in my butt now, though I started by doing it into my thigh. The first time is crazy scary, just a very odd experience of stabbing yourself. Now it's not a big deal, especially if I use those thin needles.
All in all, highly recommend, but I have seen it lead other people to taking tren and deca and god knows what. To be fair though, they were always kinda weird people and I think their plan all along was to get gnarly with things and use TRT as a stepping stone. I'm happy just feeling more normal and still being able to do the things I love.