Sorry for the long post, but I want to see what some of you think about these numbers and what I should consider for the future. I'm hoping 777 and a few others I see on here chime in.

I'm 6'3" 199lbs and am 49 y.o. I have a gut that pisses me off and some handles to go with it. It's better than 3 years ago when I finally decided to get back to working out. I was 215lbs and out of shape. For about a year (2021-2022) I was just working out, but really didn't change too much with my diet, which wasn't great. Then 2 years ago I got more serious and started cutting out as much sugar as I could and eating a little better. My wife still loved to give me big plates, so I started telling her "smaller portions". This led to me looking/feeling better and I was around 208lbs. About mid 2022, my buddy tells me he's doing this cream and he immediately started noticing improvement in multiple areas. I also think he was having some sexual issues. Thankfully that wasn't an issue for me, but I will say my drive wasn't that strong anymore. I'm guessing that pretty normal for mid-late 40's.

I tried the cream for a couple months but I didn't notice anything. The Doc said I could try the injections and they would do them for me, but I was not liking having to drive over weekly for this. So then the Doc sends me pre-filled syringes and I was doing that twice a week. Anyway, I definitely felt more strength and quicker recovery plus I also got down to 185lbs. I was also feeling like a younger version as I was getting wood for no reason

and I definitely wanted to have a lot more sex. BUT, I didn't want to be doing injections for the rest of my life. I was 48 at this point and sort of hit a crossroads of feeling pretty good, but not liking how I had to get there. My hair was always thin, but now I was seeing receding and baldness come on. I stopped early last year. My strength is definitely less, my sex drive feels pretty weak these days, and I put on nearly 15lbs to get to the 199 I'm at now. I'm mulling doing the injections again, but it's really not my preferred choice and I will be out of the country for a while so I'm not sure I'll be able to continue with them anyway. FYI, after the hair scare, I got on Finasteride and now there are some side effects from that I really don't like, so now that my hair looks better I am likely to stop that as well. I'm hoping that because I'm off the TRT, I won't see the hair loss anymore, or at least no so drastic.

All I take right now once a day is D3 125MCG and B12 100MCG. I read you guys talk about Boron and wondering if that would be a good start? I have some Whey that I keep forgetting (too lazy) to make shakes with. Should I take Creatine? Just looking for what I can try naturally or is that a lost cause?

Ok, here's the Test results, but on the next post I will post a bunch of tests I've taken over the years if that helps. BTW, I have Kaiser and their results are done weirdly in some cases so I had to work with what I got. Also, they're notoriously bad about any recommended TRT procedures, so if I do go back I likely need to go a different path than them. About May-June 2022 was when I was trying the cream and that's why I got that blood work. Then from late 2022 through May 2023 I was doing TRT. Because of the high Free I got a little nervous and stopped. When I did the blood work in Aug 2023 I was really worried about how low my Total went down. Then I was pretty shocked at how high it was Feb 2024 without having done anything in nearly a year. It's even higher than pre-cream/injections.

I'm about to go in next month for a new set of blood work because of the last two going from low to high. What should I make sure I absolutely get labs on? Should I not start any new pills until after that or should I get on Boron as an example before my next test?

This post was edited on 11/3/24 at 4:33 pm