TRT for 65 year old father?

[strixsir]

My father is on tirzepatide 2.5 mg weekly. He has a BMI of 28 and is slowly losing weight with the goal of reaching 25 or below.

He is about to turn 66 and has started showing signs of muscle atrophy, with potential mobility issues that could arise in the future, his total testosterone levels are in the 400s, his hematocrit levels are in reference range, only his HBA1C is high at 7.5 but we are taking care of that via diet and GLP1.

We live together in INDIA and our doctor is quite conservative and unwilling to advise TRT but thanks to lack of any regulations whatsoever and zero value of life in my country, i can buy dirt cheap Pharma grade 10ml (300 mg/ml) Test E vials or any compound in a literal 15 min walk from my house without any prescription.


Do you think he could benefit from an alternate-day subcutaneous dosing protocol, totaling 80-100 mg of testosterone per week?

 

[BigDadd7]

Forget that every other day subq garbage. 100 mg split into two doses is perfect.

 

[strixsir]

Forget that every other day subq garbage. 100 mg split into two doses is perfect.

he is hesitant to stick anything in his body by himself ( i inject his GLP1) but he is okay with daily orals post his breakfast with some 3-4 omega3 pills.

is this okay?

I want him to take the pill as a gateway that he becomes comfortable, the GLP1 worked so well that he is actually looking forward to it haha

in future, i plan to fill 3ml cartridges of sterile empty 3ml insulin vials to fill the injector pens so that he can dose himself, it takes 15-20 seconds to inject 0.2 ml oil using the 30G needle of insulin pens (i have tried)

 

[BigDadd7]

If he's afraid of needles, testosterone isn't for him

 

[strixsir]

If he's afraid of needles, testosterone isn't for him

well a man gotta start somewhere, better late than never,

i will do whatever to increase his quality of life at this stage.

 

[Noneya14]

I mean he should be on the standard old man stack right? GLP, Test, GH...but being anti-needle makes that brutal. He's going to have to get over it, minor discomfort for long term benefits.

 

[17SS]

My in-laws refused TRT and i got to watch my father in law slowly waste away and finally pass away last year.

My dad was literally already on TRT without ever saying anything about it, geez thanks dad. I think his low dose cream didn’t help him much because it barely raised his numbers above 400. Then he had prostate cancer and had it removed in 2024. Once he finally cleared the window of time he was comfortable with he restarted TRT but got the IM version from me. His first shot was 40mg Test Prop because we were running a sensitive PSA the following week. Apparently <.006 is the bottom of the PSA ultra sensitive for labcorp.

I gave him Test Prop, Cypionate and Enanthate just so he could figure out which ones he liked better and had to write down the injection intervals for each.

Apparently he takes cypionate at some weird interval and takes test prop when he wants to feel good the next day.

We run his ultra sensitive PSA every 6-7 weeks for his piece of mind.

Also my dad started running Retatrutide and says he likes that better than semaglutide or tirzepatide.

 

[unid888]

My father is on tirzepatide 2.5 mg weekly. He has a BMI of 28 and is slowly losing weight with the goal of reaching 25 or below.

He is about to turn 66 and has started showing signs of muscle atrophy, with potential mobility issues that could arise in the future, his total testosterone levels are in the 400s, his hematocrit levels are in reference range, only his HBA1C is high at 7.5 but we are taking care of that via diet and GLP1.

We live together in INDIA and our doctor is quite conservative and unwilling to advise TRT but thanks to lack of any regulations whatsoever and zero value of life in my country, i can buy dirt cheap Pharma grade 10ml (300 mg/ml) Test E vials or any compound in a literal 15 min walk from my house without any prescription.


Do you think he could benefit from an alternate-day subcutaneous dosing protocol, totaling 80-100 mg of testosterone per week?

Obviously, there'd be a huge benefit, but it's just one piece of the puzzle, bloodwork and some form of exercise would need to follow. I don't see anything wrong with frequent subq either, but at that low dose, 2 times might be good enough

 

[Totolifts]

My father is on tirzepatide 2.5 mg weekly. He has a BMI of 28 and is slowly losing weight with the goal of reaching 25 or below.

He is about to turn 66 and has started showing signs of muscle atrophy, with potential mobility issues that could arise in the future, his total testosterone levels are in the 400s, his hematocrit levels are in reference range, only his HBA1C is high at 7.5 but we are taking care of that via diet and GLP1.

We live together in INDIA and our doctor is quite conservative and unwilling to advise TRT but thanks to lack of any regulations whatsoever and zero value of life in my country, i can buy dirt cheap Pharma grade 10ml (300 mg/ml) Test E vials or any compound in a literal 15 min walk from my house without any prescription.


Do you think he could benefit from an alternate-day subcutaneous dosing protocol, totaling 80-100 mg of testosterone per week?

Does he already work out or any other sport? if not once he starts, it will make his whole body feel better. If he still has problems after that, then trt
can be considered. For someone with a fear of needles, injecting two or three times a week should be one of the last options.