Hey guys, got prescribed 250 test cyp a week from my doc, along with a dose of Hcg, is there any reason to use the Hcg with test? He was telling me so I don't shut down, isn't this sending 2 different signals to my body? Anybody here have the same thing prescribed to them by their Hrt doc?
It is common practice among HRT docs to prescribe hcg. I agree, the reasoning is a bit fuzzy, as the intent here really is that you will now be on TRT for life, and if that is the case what use do you really have for maintaining your Leydig (testosterone-producing) and Sertoli (sperm-producing) cells? Most of us who are on HRT don't intend to have kids anymore, and we wont be needing our Leydig cells unless we decide to come off.
I do commend you for finding a doc that put you on a 250mg per week regimen. Most will only go up to 125mg, and some even less than that. I have been blessed to find a doc that put me on 400mg per week, but that was because I am a physician myself and was VERY upfront with her about my previous use of AAS (which was considerable). I do take 300iu hcg about once every 5 days but I'm not really convinced it is of any benefit to me since I am now "on for life". It may help stave off testicular atrophy, so if you care at all about the size of your testicles it may be of some benefit there.
For the average younger user of AAS, however, I do believe that it is
critical to utilize hcg throughout the cycle, at a dose of about 300-500i.u. every 5 days or so. This will indeed prevent the cellular apoptosis (programmed cell death) that is inevitable with the use of AAS. This has been a huge topic/debate here on this board in the past, and you can look back at previous posts on the subject, the best ones being around 2004-2006 when this board was highly stacked with some very knowledgeable people. If you look at previous posts by Marble (and by me), he was really an innovator in this area, and carried multiple degrees in chemistry and endocrinology and was really the first one, to my knowledge, to formulate this regimen. Previous recommendations for hcg always advocated large doses (1500-2500 i.u.) used at the termination of the cycle to get the Leydig cells working again, but that really never made sense to me. Why allow the permanent loss of these cells at all? Prevention always beats salvage.