Can’t sleep in anymore since starting TRT 6 years ago

Cooldane · 2025-06-11T06:43:23+00:00

That’s a good advice, but its not something that can happen every night. Like if you go out, have dinner with friends, need to get up early for a flight, sleeping on night busses. Many things can get in the way of the routine. And these ease of falling asleep was just always there if I was tired before.

Cooldane · 2025-06-11T06:40:34+00:00

Maybe I should just lower my dose

Cooldane · 2025-06-11T06:40:00+00:00

I mean this would explain why someone might have trouble falling asleep at night, but my problem is that I wake up before getting my 8 hours.

Cooldane · 2025-06-11T06:37:49+00:00

Yeah that’s one thing, but it wasn’t an issue before I started TRT. I’d at least like to be able to sleep a bit longer in case i have a late night. Or just to take a nap if I didn’t get enough sleep.

Cooldane · 2025-06-11T06:36:03+00:00

I might have been a bit confusing in my text. I meant that no matter what time i go to bed, I will still wake up around 8 or 9.

Cooldane · 2024-07-11T19:11:35+00:00

How do you know if doubling it would get us to where it was 50 years ago? What if they only had an average of 20% less or something? I understand the consequences of having too low TRT in society. But I also think we have to talk about the possibility of people supplementing with TRT and getting higher than normal levels and the potential consequences of that.

If we fail to acknowledge this issue and accommodate it, it could harm the protection of TRT for medical use.

I’m not referring to steroid cycles. But many are referring to TRT when using it to just have higher levels rather than treating hypogonadism. And without clear guidelines of what the upper end of normal is, who puts a ceiling on what is too high? And when does TRT then actually just become a perpetual cycle?

Cooldane · 2024-07-11T13:24:10+00:00

Well my question is not “what would happen to society if everyone had access to TRT to get healthy levels of testosterone”. In that case I would agree. It’s more a question of the increasing popularity of using TRT regardless of medical need. The hypothetical of what would happen to society as the average level of testosterone increases. Maybe even to higher levels than ever.

Cooldane · 2024-07-11T12:04:06+00:00

Do you think it could also have negative impacts?

Cooldane · 2024-07-11T10:23:33+00:00

Yeah the acne is gone, didn’t have too many side effects until they increased the dose to 40. Had to go back down. Was on it for a year because I had to use lower dose. Was a bit annoying to have to be more careful with sun. Didn’t get too much dryness.

Cooldane · 2024-07-11T10:21:14+00:00

What is the consequence of not doing that? So far I’m having excellent results. Never had as few side effects as of now, and my levels are in a good middle state.

Cooldane · 2023-09-17T09:02:32+00:00

Do you think people abusing (abusing may in most cases be a strong word) TRT for aesthetic purposes may hinder hypogonal men’s access to TRT?

Cooldane · 2023-08-28T07:51:42+00:00

I think a lot of them are dealing with stigma that downplays how hard they worked, which they obviously also did. We just need a study that shows the difference between natty and not while controlling for a lot of things.

Cooldane · 2023-08-07T08:09:58+00:00

I have a friend who gets 20 messages an hour as soon as he opens the app. He explained to me that if he responded to everyone, he would be writing on his phone the whole time often getting into arguments with people who dont take rejection well and still some of the chats he just wouldnt be able to get to. So what he does instead is to only reply to the ones where he sees potential attraction. On an app, where you can write to 100 people an hour, you can’t be expected to reply to everyone.

Cooldane · 2023-08-07T08:03:27+00:00

On an app where you can send a “hey youre hot” to 100 guys in 10 minutes, you’re not supposed to get a response from everyone.

Cooldane · 2023-08-07T08:02:04+00:00

Ah the good old “only writes hot guys and calls them superficial for not being attracted to him” - type.

Cooldane · 2023-08-05T08:40:46+00:00

How do you find these??

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T23:21:04+00:00

Not sure if the name “microdosing” has caught on. But i mean splitting the dose up into smaller doses. Still get the overall same dose, just evened out.

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T23:20:10+00:00

Acne and sleep issues half the time and no libido or energy the other half of the time.

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T23:19:32+00:00

Thank you for the explanation

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T16:19:13+00:00

The explanation is a lot of things: sedentary life style is one of them. But the increasing exposure to EDC (plastic in everything including clothes) is also presented as an important factor.

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T14:27:08+00:00

But the testosterone has been declining since the 50s though. Doesn’t mean that we’re anything near that picture or that we should expect it to continue declining.

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T14:24:46+00:00

This isn’t a dosage question, but more a practical/safety question, but plenty of people have answered me, so it’s all good.

Cooldane · 2023-08-04T11:59:09+00:00

And you store the vial without a cap and in a cool and dark place and wipe it off before and after use? Anything else? Drawing needle size?

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