HOY-Because I HAD to try it...

[Shannon]

Hi All, (9/6/22)

In the middle of our third cycle since beginning to listen on the cell phone.
Don't like doing it that way, cause it's a pain to hook up the cell phone on my night stand, put it in airplane mode, etc. but seems to be working ok.

Some things to report:

• We're both doing fine in general.
  
• My weight has stabilized at 5 lbs lower than what it had been for months before the sub. My wife's weight dropped a few pounds, then after a couple weeks it went back to her previous 'normal'. I'm trying to get the muscle weight back that I have lost and it seems to be going ok, though slowly (normal for someone my age).
  
• In general, our sleep has been better, though that is difficult to quantify. Just more consistent deep and rem sleep for both of us.
  
• in the last week have had a couple of 'morning glories' but not extremely pronounced, yet, I hope.... would like to get back to where I was on this when I was younger and/or when I was on TRT.
  
• Tomorrow I'm getting my hormone panels done, seems like a month in to this will be a good time to give it a try. 
  
• I have had bouts of 'crankiness' where I feel the estrogen dominance and really have to catch myself to avoid becoming over-reactive and/or complainy. This has been on and off for several weeks now, BUT seems to be a little less frequent. Night sweats are slightly diminished, though this is hard to tell during the heatwave we have had for the last 10 days or so.
  

That's all I can think of right now.

Question for @Shannon: I'm getting hormone labs done. They are going to be pretty thorough. Among the tests requested:

• prolactin
  
• Free and total T
  
• DHEA
  
• Estradiol
  
• FSH/LH
  
• GH (hopefully)
  

What feedback do you have on this? I assume you're interested in the results, what do you expect to see?
Also, how long till the HOY effects peak, more or less?

Cheers!
RonO

I would like to know how your current results compare to previous results on HRT and without HRT.  I really have no expectations because each person is going to be different, but I would presume your hormone levels should be closer to what they were when you were significantly younger.

Peak should be between 2 weeks and 3 months, but I don't know specifically how long it takes because again, each person is different.