Glad to be finally posting on here! This site and others helped me figure out some of my medical issues.

I had to go on TRT in my mid-20s, I've been on it for 2 years and I've made the most gains in this time than I've ever had. I used to be in some sports throughout high-school, hitting weights where I could, but I always had to put in like 10x the effort to get less results than everyone else. I also felt exhausted all the time, sleeping way longer than any teenage would. I had some suspicions what it could've been caused by, but shrugged it off when others told me "everyone gets tired" and assumed I was just being lazy - that was a huge mistake.

After recovering from a life-threatening infection in early college that made me bed bound at times, I hit the weights again. Starting fresh, I had lost much of my mass, going from 210 to 140, though keeping a lot of the fat. Yet, despite all the nutrition plans and routines I did with gym buddies, I didn't improve well if at all. After diving hard into self-improvement after I started having depression and hard anxiety again, I realized that my fatigue wasn't normal. After a friend kept nagging me, I took a blood test and my total-T came back at like 205. This led to a huge medical journey where I figured out that I had a damaged pituitary glad from head trauma many years ago (ESS), leaving me with low-T and severe central sleep-apnea as a result. I screwed up my shoulders and almost tore my bicep in the gym trying to just train harder, but it wasn't that I wasn't putting in the time or effort, I just couldn't recover. This all bled into the rest of my life, and not getting all of this resolved took so many years away, but through it all I learned so much - really should've stayed in medical haha.

I started looking into cycles as many of the forums have more knowledge than most endocrinologists - at least in my experience. But, I didn't jump on anything until I lost a vial of T and insurance told me tough shit. I did find the vial like a day later, and I tried my first cycle with the extra vial at ~400mg/wk. After that rough experience, I started ordering extra T online to be safe and experiment with. Now I'm running a cycle of EQ at 500mg/wk and T at 400mg/wk, with 50mg Var to kick it off. So far I'm liking the results and it's great that I can finally make the body I want despite all the lost time.

Figured I'd finally stop lurking, and actually contribute! Haha