36 y/o from Italy – Considering Testosterone Microdosing for Chronic Fatigue

[hacksquatter]

Hi everyone,

my name is Daniel, I’m 36 years old and writing to you from Italy. First of all, thank you for the great amount of valuable information you guys share here. I've been silently reading for a while, and now I feel ready to join and share a bit of my story.
For the past few years, I’ve been struggling with chronic fatigue, low energy, and poor recovery. Even after adequate sleep and rest, I often wake up feeling tired and mentally foggy. Despite leading a healthy lifestyle — I follow a balanced diet and regularly supplement with omega-3, vitamin D, and magnesium bisglycinate — the fatigue persists.
I used to train consistently, but I’ve recently had to pause my workouts due to poor post-training recovery. This has been deeply frustrating, especially because training has always been my outlet.
Here in Italy, unfortunately, it's very difficult to find medical professionals or clinics that take hormonal health seriously unless your testosterone levels are extremely low. I don’t want to jump into anything blindly, which is why I’m planning to do a full panel of bloodwork first — and I'd love to hear from you which specific tests you recommend for evaluating overall hormone health and the possibility of low T.
I’ve been considering a low-dose testosterone microdosing protocol, not for performance enhancement or aesthetics, but simply to regain a stable level of energy and improve my quality of life. I know this is an unusual approach and I’m still in the research and learning phase — but I’m genuinely curious:
Do you think this kind of protocol could be effective in a case like mine?
Any advice, experience, or suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance for reading and for any guidance you can provide.
Best regards,
Daniel

 

[s.gentz]

Hi everyone,

my name is Daniel, I’m 36 years old and writing to you from Italy. First of all, thank you for the great amount of valuable information you guys share here. I've been silently reading for a while, and now I feel ready to join and share a bit of my story.
For the past few years, I’ve been struggling with chronic fatigue, low energy, and poor recovery. Even after adequate sleep and rest, I often wake up feeling tired and mentally foggy. Despite leading a healthy lifestyle — I follow a balanced diet and regularly supplement with omega-3, vitamin D, and magnesium bisglycinate — the fatigue persists.
I used to train consistently, but I’ve recently had to pause my workouts due to poor post-training recovery. This has been deeply frustrating, especially because training has always been my outlet.
Here in Italy, unfortunately, it's very difficult to find medical professionals or clinics that take hormonal health seriously unless your testosterone levels are extremely low. I don’t want to jump into anything blindly, which is why I’m planning to do a full panel of bloodwork first — and I'd love to hear from you which specific tests you recommend for evaluating overall hormone health and the possibility of low T.
I’ve been considering a low-dose testosterone microdosing protocol, not for performance enhancement or aesthetics, but simply to regain a stable level of energy and improve my quality of life. I know this is an unusual approach and I’m still in the research and learning phase — but I’m genuinely curious:
Do you think this kind of protocol could be effective in a case like mine?
Any advice, experience, or suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance for reading and for any guidance you can provide.
Best regards,
Daniel

Get bloodwork to see what's going on.

 

[Mobster]

TRT doesn't, in and of itself, fix fatigue. Testosterone is not an energy hormone as such. Sleep, in itself, needs to restful and for something so basic is misunderstood. For example not stims, inc coffee or tea for at least 4 hour pre-sleep will make 8 hours more restful than the same amount of sleep with coffee just before bed. Ditto TV or cellphone use. Even alcohol, which helps many TO sleep doesn't mean it's restful.

You should also look at how busy you are (work and life) and your stress levels. These are mentally draining which can make you feel mentally tired.

That said MANY find TRT enhances a sense of well-being and 'get up and go'. Get bloods so we can see.

 

[Mobster]

Micro-dosing is up there with 'sub-q'. Neither are better than less frequent pinning (in TRT's case once week or less). Nor does sub-q make it more available. I'd remind those reading even the 'steady state' idea doesn't hold much water as natural test levels vary through the day never mind the week etc. By way of example the sun coming up at dawn ups your test levels (amongst other hormones) and it wakes you up. Often with a hard on.

 

[Freki]

Hi everyone,

my name is Daniel, I’m 36 years old and writing to you from Italy. First of all, thank you for the great amount of valuable information you guys share here. I've been silently reading for a while, and now I feel ready to join and share a bit of my story.
For the past few years, I’ve been struggling with chronic fatigue, low energy, and poor recovery. Even after adequate sleep and rest, I often wake up feeling tired and mentally foggy. Despite leading a healthy lifestyle — I follow a balanced diet and regularly supplement with omega-3, vitamin D, and magnesium bisglycinate — the fatigue persists.
I used to train consistently, but I’ve recently had to pause my workouts due to poor post-training recovery. This has been deeply frustrating, especially because training has always been my outlet.
Here in Italy, unfortunately, it's very difficult to find medical professionals or clinics that take hormonal health seriously unless your testosterone levels are extremely low. I don’t want to jump into anything blindly, which is why I’m planning to do a full panel of bloodwork first — and I'd love to hear from you which specific tests you recommend for evaluating overall hormone health and the possibility of low T.
I’ve been considering a low-dose testosterone microdosing protocol, not for performance enhancement or aesthetics, but simply to regain a stable level of energy and improve my quality of life. I know this is an unusual approach and I’m still in the research and learning phase — but I’m genuinely curious:
Do you think this kind of protocol could be effective in a case like mine?
Any advice, experience, or suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance for reading and for any guidance you can provide.
Best regards,
Daniel

Ciao
Would you consider doing an Autoimmune protocol?
For me it's suger and starches, can you start eliminating all foods with suger for a week and see if you feel even a bit better?
Some find it's oxalates, others dairy and eggs you won't know if that's causing the fatigue or something completely different till you try.

 

[stevesmi]

Could be a lot of issues causing this. The issue is does trt help here or hurt. You can shut yourself down for life

Get a hormone panel to see what is up

Lh
Fsh
Total test
Estrogen

 

[Mobster]

Ciao
Would you consider doing an Autoimmune protocol?
For me it's suger and starches, can you start eliminating all foods with suger for a week and see if you feel even a bit better?
Some find it's oxalates, others dairy and eggs you won't know if that's causing the fatigue or something completely different till you try.

A buddy just posted today on FB as to how he'd been doing a 'rough carnivore diet' for weeks. His GF is off on a hen weekend so decided to have a cheat meal and felt horrid after eating it

 

[Freki]

A buddy just posted today on FB as to how he'd been doing a 'rough carnivore diet' for weeks. His GF is off on a hen weekend so decided to have a cheat meal and felt horrid after eating it

I felt great on Carnivore, and cheat meals suck makes you sick only there is no way I could do it long term very restrictve.

 

[Npcclassicphysique champ]

Hi everyone,

my name is Daniel, I’m 36 years old and writing to you from Italy. First of all, thank you for the great amount of valuable information you guys share here. I've been silently reading for a while, and now I feel ready to join and share a bit of my story.
For the past few years, I’ve been struggling with chronic fatigue, low energy, and poor recovery. Even after adequate sleep and rest, I often wake up feeling tired and mentally foggy. Despite leading a healthy lifestyle — I follow a balanced diet and regularly supplement with omega-3, vitamin D, and magnesium bisglycinate — the fatigue persists.
I used to train consistently, but I’ve recently had to pause my workouts due to poor post-training recovery. This has been deeply frustrating, especially because training has always been my outlet.
Here in Italy, unfortunately, it's very difficult to find medical professionals or clinics that take hormonal health seriously unless your testosterone levels are extremely low. I don’t want to jump into anything blindly, which is why I’m planning to do a full panel of bloodwork first — and I'd love to hear from you which specific tests you recommend for evaluating overall hormone health and the possibility of low T.
I’ve been considering a low-dose testosterone microdosing protocol, not for performance enhancement or aesthetics, but simply to regain a stable level of energy and improve my quality of life. I know this is an unusual approach and I’m still in the research and learning phase — but I’m genuinely curious:
Do you think this kind of protocol could be effective in a case like mine?
Any advice, experience, or suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance for reading and for any guidance you can provide.
Best regards,
Daniel

@hacksquatter welcome to the EVO family Daniel bro

I’ve been considering a low-dose testosterone microdosing protocol, not for performance enhancement or aesthetics, but simply to regain a stable level of energy and improve my quality of life. I know this is an unusual approach and I’m still in the research and learning phase — but I’m genuinely curious:
Do you think this kind of protocol could be effective in a case like mine?
Any advice, experience, or suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance for reading and for any guidance you can provide.

I read your post bro but i think you are missing something, you're missing the fact that for us to give you answers on TRT or doses or anything else we need to know details about you bro
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[stevesmi]

I felt great on Carnivore, and cheat meals suck makes you sick only there is no way I could do it long term very restrictve.

one of the things that i have learned is people will tolerate diets differently

mobster and I interviewed a powerlifter who had crohns who did 3 things to fix it

1. fasting/time restricted eating
2. raw dairy
3. grassfed beef

that literally was his diet and he has done great on it

 

[Freki]

one of the things that i have learned is people will tolerate diets differently

mobster and I interviewed a powerlifter who had crohns who did 3 things to fix it

1. fasting/time restricted eating
2. raw dairy
3. grassfed beef

that literally was his diet and he has done great on it

I wonder how long it took him to find out this worked for him. Hopefully one day we can just take a test

 

[stevesmi]

I wonder how long it took him to find out this worked for him. Hopefully one day we can just take a test

message mobster and he can ask him for more info. he is his gym buddy

 

[Mobster]

I wonder how long it took him to find out this worked for him. Hopefully one day we can just take a test

It's not perfect. He still has his rough days. However, I've been with him when he's been shitting blood on a Friday, gone to hospital to be hydrated and competed on a Sunday.

 

[ceo]

Bros. This is the opportunity for you to start one of your logs. This way we can track your progress.

 

[ROIDDERS]

There are lots of factors that can make you tired and just depends on each individual.

 

[chesty]

If it's testosterone then running, some will definitely give you in the proof that you need.

 

[Ulter]

If you do self trt, you can go down that route but be careful, it's not worth it if that's not the real issue.

 

[StevenDarwinMD]

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[Freki]

It's not perfect. He still has his rough days. However, I've been with him when he's been shitting blood on a Friday, gone to hospital to be hydrated and competed on a Sunday.

That's a rough gig and he still stuck with his dreams, impressive.

Took me 4 years of hell fighting for a diagnosis(Nr AxSpa) and then was pain free after 3 weeks from diet, but yeah dreams were shattered in that time

 

[JasonPriest]

Get blood work done as soon as possible. Get your hormones checked