My question is why you think starting up TRT is an irreversable process? I am working with Dr. J. and the goal for my treatment is to use t-gel, HC, and thyroid as well as HCG in the hope that once we correct the real problems, we might start removing some of the meds.
Good luck on this- seriously. Haven't found one person able to do so. I recall reading old posts by Dr J that indicate idiopathic secondary hypogonadism is largely uncurable. I'd LOVE to be proven wrong. Most Drs can't even tell us why we are as we are, much less decipher the H and P "black boxes".
You see to rule this out a priori, which is foolish and just plain wrong. As others have noted to you in the past, there are many steroid users (those who use ridiculous amounts and thus at even worse odds of recovery/normalization) who then go on to do a 'post cycle treatment and then recover.
I am aware that some steroid users have come back, but am not aware of normal people who just shut down for unknown reasons coming back. Again, please prove me wrong.
I dont know why you think feeling like crap without TRT is any likelier to have you recover using just something like HCG than actually using something like t-gel and then, provided you've uncovered why the underlying problems caused low t, fixing these problems, and then trying to restart the HPTA.
This is exactly what I want to do, but have had no success. Even a brief period of 1500 units of hcg 3x/week under Dr Shippen's guidance ony got my to about 525 or so, while E shot to 75. Dr Shippen has told me that guys like me (40s) with low T not easily ascribable to something specific will likely be on TRT for life. In all my scans of this and similar boards I've yet to find one guy who was able to successfully fully restart his HPTA. This said, my goal is to get to a decent point and then see if I can be weaned off. "How" and "when" remain open questions.....
my 2 cents. get a doctor who knows what their doing and then just listen to them. I recommend Dr. John.
Perhaps I should consider seeing BOTH Dr J and Dr S. Might not be a bad idea.... I wonder if they would go for it. I'd like the diversity of opinions/thoughts, but am not sure that the Drs would go for it. Gotta give this some thought.