Quitting TRT isn’t a death sentence so far…
Let me preface this by stating that if you are truly hypogonadal and NEED external testosterone to function then this does not apply to you, this post is for the man that jumped on TRT after a few low results hoping it would be the miracle elixir to fix everything, and then spent years on it operating at a elevated testosterone level, scared to stop because of the stories you’ve read on here.
I’m 30, I jumped on TRT at 28 after the birth of my second and final child after hitting the jackpot of repeated low tests of testosterone levels. I’m in the UK so we use nmol/dl.
I had a few labs of mixed results in nmols:
8nmols total.
16nmols total.
11nmols total.
7nmols total.
.210 free
.353 free
.189 free
After using my brain a bit, I realised that I actually felt better in my trough levels on TRT which had me right around 17-18nmols, my peak was somewhere around 21-23nmols. For reference 100mg that I started at put my total testosterone at 34nmols.
I was taking 65mg per week split into two doses, took a while to land at that dose but it was the only dose that didn’t cause bacne, extreme tenseness and a sensation of being a mental pressure cooker. After realising that one of my earlier tests was 16nmols, I had the realisation that perhaps my body runs at its operational state somewhere in the lower levels of testosterone, and chucking more testosterone in makes me feel 10x worse, sure I had moments in the gym where I thought “fucking hell look how much I’m lifting”, but with the day to day rollercoaster of emotions, I decided to fuck it all off and quit cold turkey 2 months ago.
Do you know what I’ve experienced so far? A reduction in motivation to train, a bit of brain fog, maybe some days where the kids are doing my nut in and I need to remove myself for 30 minutes. Other then that, I feel absolutely no different than when I was at my trough levels on TRT. My dick still works, my balls are actually saggy in my sack again, not playing hide and seek in my groin, I still have a libido, maybe I cannot be bothered with people in work as much, but I also genuinely feel like myself again, that constant pressure of instability completely gone, and TRT actually made my dick worse! Some days it wouldn’t work at all!
8 weeks free of testosterone and I’m still waiting for this “crash” everybody spouts on here, in my experience it hasn’t been anything like that at all, so if you was an idiot like me and hoped test would fix you, realised it really isn’t doing much but making you feel off, but have been scared to come off due to the “crash” then take it from me, just try, you can always jump back on.