DarthRebel

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Just lost all the AF gains lol

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This market hates good news, all about feelings :lol:

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I like the wifey

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Hubby will kill you, just using his pinky :lol:

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stop AI stealing jobs

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Please show your work?

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How the heck are you so educated on this?!?!

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This thread and life experience :cheers:

Reiterating and building off what Uncle Jack said.

You are going to be hit or miss with a Urologist (primary as well) that is super versed in TRT. My old primary doc pulled my numbers, said I was good to go and my T level was low 300s. My new primary is very much into quality of life, so is pro-T, peptides, GLP, etc.

May have changed, but you need 2 pulls of blood a week apart and below certain levels to qualify for insurance to pay. You can still do it without insurance, just cost more obviously. If you are shooting for insurance to pay, eat like crap (no red meat), be lazy and no sex the few days before the blood pull.

Like Uncle said, you will want to start low and go at least 6 weeks and re-test. Your goal is get around 1000, keep bumping dose 20mg and then down to 10mg when you get close.

If you are doing shots yourself, twice a week is better than once, but once a week is also equally fine. It is up to you how many times you want to stick yourself.

Hematocrit (blood thickness) is a thing to watch, for me personally it is because I can feel it when it gets too high. I feel sluggish and sweat more. Just donate blood every 8-12 weeks and you will be fine. Donating blood is a great thing to do to help others, but it also makes you feel better now. You do not have to give blood that frequently and I went close to a year not doing it while on TRT, and some other long stretches (half years), but just get in that cadence.

E2 (Estradiol) can/will go up and they may want to put you on anastrolzole to lower it. Unless your E2 runs will high and you also get some symptoms, I would ride it out and see if it stabilizes. Those symptoms have been listed here, and you are not going wake up one morning with B cup breasts. If you feel fatigue and your libido is waning again, that is when to maybe look at an aromatase inhibitor. Not permanently either, sometimes you body just fluctuates. All your levels are going to fluctuate over time. You may increase and decrease your T dose through the years. I have been on and off (much more off) anastrolzole.

Lastly, make sure you are ready for it, as it is a life long commitment. Sometimes lifestyle changes can get you where you want to be, without TRT. If you are over 50 though, just go ahead and do it.

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You should probably speak with an estate planning attorney. Are you in Louisiana? If so, it has always been my understanding that trusts in Louisiana don't provide some of the benefits (like skipping probate) that they have in common law jurisdictions. I am no expert, so take that with a grain of salt.

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Important part. It varies by state if you need or do not need one, however you can always get one.

In Texas you are really do not need one, unless you just want privacy and/or have a complex wealth portfolio. Texas probate is fast and cheap to do. In Mississippi you want a trust over a will as it is a slow process run through Chancery Court

Since you are in LA it appears

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Louisiana’s estate laws differ from every other state because the legal system is based on the Napoleonic Code, not common law. This impacts probate (called succession) and the usefulness of trusts. Whether a trust makes sense depends on your goals, family situation, and estate complexity.

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Talk to that estate planning attorney

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Thou shall not kill.

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While I am not on team assisted suicide, that is a pretty dumb angle invoke biblical language.

Unless you are part of some fringe religious cult, we all condone killing people.

Military action protecting our freedoms
Death penalty
Protecting your family from other persons.

Thou shall not kill does not apply to governments, just individuals choosing the path they want to live.

Once again, I think government assisted suicide is very much wrong. Not for biblical reasons however

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He willingly left you and is never coming back.

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I think we are good with that. :cheers:

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incumbent advantage that Co-pilot has been such a flop.

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This has been baffling. We use the enterprise copilot at work, and chatgpt is just faster and easier. Copilot is just rebranded chatgpt, but they rebranded it to be inferior.

Chiming in for posterity

Look into rclone next time. It is free open source with something like 70 data source options.

Command line, but simple.