I work with a compounding pharmacy and a hormone replacement therapy doctor in Las Vegas. I do tech geek stuff for them, not anything medical, and I am not an employee, just a consultant. But the upshot of it is I get free TRT now!

One of the procedures they are doing that is gaining in popularity is testosterone pellet implants. I came to Las Vegas this week to get my second round of implants, you get them every six months. Since I have extremely low levels naturally (from a hormonal condition, and the last pre-TRT test was 110), and the doctor is a friend, I have been able to get a high dose of pellets implanted. I think I get about 50% more than is usually prescribed for age related drop off.

An incision is made in your glutes, and they stick the pellets about an inch under in the muscle. The pellets are made of a wax that allows the test to leach out gradually into your bloodstream. Since it is a gradual constant supply of test, it is supposed to be better for you than other kinds of TRT that has spikes and valleys of levels of test. The form of testosterone is supposed to be pure, not test ethanate, propionate etc. Because of this method, there are supposed to be less side effects etc.

Like other TRT it takes a couple of weeks to get full blood level. I really felt it after two weeks, it felt as strong as when I was doing 900mg a week when I was doing a cycle. It felt great.

But after about three months, I didn't feel like it was as strong, my sex drive was slowing down, and other things felt a bit off. So I took a saliva test for T. About 5 days before I took the test I did a small bump of test ethanate (75mg) to help get me back to normal. So my test was right about at the half-life of the treatment.

For this saliva test the normal range of results for an adult male is between 35 and 150. My result came back at 330! Boo-ya! So my levels were about double of the max, which is a very good level for body building I think! I think my general feeling of being off was due to the fact that I was about three to four months off of anadrol and HGH.

The level of test in your system will gradually taper off after about four months. But with levels as high as mine, by the six month mark, I will probably still be in the normal range of test, if not a bit high! At month four I started adding in about 75mg of test ethanate a week to make sure I had some blood levels in case the pellets dropped off T support. At month 5 I upped it to 150mg a week.

I have a prescription for 10mg tamoxofen and I take that 2 to 3 times a week.

Today I got my new pellets 'installed'. And the doctor put me on anastrazole (Arimidex) 1mg twice a week, I will probably do it three times a week though.

The incision they use is small, after a couple of weeks, I could feel a lump about the size of a big marble under the skin, but you can't see it from the outside. At the 6 month mark, there is a bump the size of a small pea I can feel under there, and the Dr says it will disappear in a few months. The procedure takes about 10 minutes, they inject an anesthetic in your glutes, then make an incision about half an inch long, and make slices in a star pattern into your glutes and place the pellets in those channels. On the outside, you just see that small half inch incision. I barely felt the procedure, but you can be sore there for a few days afterwards. I did have some bruising in the area for about a week too. Best not to do any glute workouts for a couple of days!