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From Dr. Rhonda Patrick’s site. She did a pretty good meta analysis on the health benefits to sauna here:

Found My Fitness: Sauna

Well maybe if large corporations would stop consolidating small farms and putting small dairy farms out of business there just might be enough dairy.

That’s interesting. I’ll look into it. I started off with nasal pillows and that felt like a direct stream of pressurized air straight to the brain. The full nasal mask was okay. I’m honestly at the point of trying to get an oral appliance. Thanks for the rec.

You have to keep doing the exercises. It’s about strengthening your muscles around the injury. Sometime things take a while. Not sure what the nature of the injury is. An MRI might be able to tell you what is injured but it won’t fix it. You will either have to do PT or have surgery. Almost any doctor will make you do the PT before surgery anyway. Also, a GOOD physical therapist makes all the difference. Not all are the same. I went through three PTs before I found one worth a damn.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you get relief.

I was looking for this thread the other day and got to about page 8 and got distracted. Thanks for reviving it.

Don't think I can actually answer this question or not. But I am 53 and am doing barbell dead-lifts. And I am pretty sure that you probably have more strength training under your belt that I do, since I didn't start doing serious strength training until about three years ago. I look at the hex bar at the gym and it just seems foreign to me. But am curious what others have to say about it.

After not being happy with the Urologist I went to...I went to the doctor I was going to go to in the first place. This urologist at least seems to be more knowledgeable on the subject, and a little more thorough, but still not great. He tested me for luteinizing hormone and prolactin. Both came back pretty normal. He doesn't seem to care about free testosterone, SBHG, estrogen, or estradiol, or any of the other things we talk about here. SIGH. He also was big on a once every two weeks shot, but was okay with once a week. Obviously the joke is on him. I am likely to stick with three shots a week for a while. You all pretty much said this was going to be par for the course. Not sure what I was expecting. Anyway, I will probably stick with this doc for maybe a year. He wants me to come back in six months to check on things. After a year of this I will probably look into a clinic.

So I finally just started my test c. Of course doc wanted me to do 200 mg/ml once every two weeks. Yeah not doing that. Started splitting it up into twice a week rather. So far so good. I have no expectations this soon. But the more I read on the topic the more I think I should do more than twice a week. What are everyone’s thoughts on a M-W-F routine or an every other day routine? I know the numbers wouldn’t add up all that evenly but I hear and read that these are probably ideal injection schedules for bigger guys.

Thanks in advance.

I definitely understand. And at 53 I’m not some young guy that can recover at I easily. A lifetime of wear and tear from the military, construction jobs, and now sitting at a desk. I started with the three exercises in the link below and really improved my life. If you can’t do those exact exercises there are easier variations until you build up some strength. No judgement here from me. Just like to share what has helped me.

The McGill Big Three for Core Stability

Good lord! I am not a happy camper. And I know you all warned me. Short story is, went in to the Urologist (this one came recommended) on March 2. I promptly did bloodwork next morning after orders were sent in to Labcorp. I did this twice. Received very little communication for the doctors office. Finally got word yesterday that the Doc wants to prescribe me 200mg of test every other week. Got clarification that yes, he wants me to do one injection every two weeks. I try to get clarification of what kind of testosterone he wants to prescribe me, and have received no other information. I told them I would prefer Cypionate as opposed to the Xyosted he originally wanted to give me. Said they send in the script to the pharmacy. They have yet to do so. Of course if I ever get the stuff I’ll be splitting the dose up to twice a week injections. Meanwhile I have an appointment scheduled for a different doctor. I’m just not happy with the lack of attention and inability to provide me information.

For the record I’m 53. First total test was 334 and second total test was 304. Free test during first set of labs was 6.1. Doc didn’t order free test for second labs.

As soon as I see the Urologist I’ll definitely ask. In the meantime I messaged his office and let them know I prefer test c.

I’m not overly impressed with the doc anyway and as soon as I get started on something I’ll probably look for another doctor. If another will take me on. I already have the tests done with this Urologist so I’m seeing it through for now.