Patient Story
Stephen: Low T Symptoms to More Energy, Libido, and Lean Muscle
Summary
Stephen, a high-energy guy who had always worked multiple jobs, noticed his energy declining, his sex drive dropping, and general lethargy setting in. A friend and personal trainer (Chris Goule at Foley Fitness) recommended Med Matrix. Blood work confirmed he was in the low testosterone range, and after starting TRT he felt results within about a month: leaning out, gaining lean muscle, better energy, and improved sex drive.
Before Med Matrix
- Energy levels declining after years of being a high-energy, multiple-jobs person
- Felt lethargic, even a standard 40-hour work week felt hard
- Reduced sex drive
- Recognized low testosterone symptoms in himself
- Preferred not to go the conventional primary care route for testing
Results
- Skin feels tighter
- Leaning out, lean muscle mass increasing
- Energy levels improved significantly
- Sex drive improved
- Overall quality of life better
- Has energy for overtime, gym, and social activities again
- Felt results within about one month of starting TRT
Key Quotes
“I feel like my skin gets tighter every day. I'm leaning out a little bit. The lean muscle mass is up a bit. Energy levels feel better. Sex drive feels better.”
“My experience with primaries, sometimes they don't like to order tests when you want to do them.”
“I feel like you guys are ahead of the curve here big time.”
“I have that energy. It's like, man, I got more energy to work overtime now and grind out some extra hours.”
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low tea symptoms were kicking in. I was experiencing a handful of those and uh you know, I figured it would be good to come in and check it out. Maybe if I could get that addressed, my quality of life would be better. Yeah. What were like some of the things you were experiencing and kind of like I don't know if you tried to get help elsewhere, like what was that like? Well, I felt like I had boundless energy before. I've just always been a high motive guy. I had like multiple jobs and still had time to go to the gym, go out, things like that. Wasn't really feeling like that anymore. It's like all of a sudden like doing my 40 at work felt kind of hard. So energy levels detailed a bit. Just felt a little more lethargic. Sex drive wasn't where I felt like it needed to be and was before. So that was a big motivator. You know, I think that was like mainly the the biggest couple things there. Gotcha. And before coming to us, did you like try going to, you know, the conventional route or try any things on your own? What what was kind of No, really. I uh figured this was this would be like really the first place to start on that. I came right to you guys. Yeah. I know a lot of guys would go to their primaries for that kind of thing. But u honestly just uh my experience with primaries sometimes they don't like to order tests when you want to do them and yeah I didn't always feel like it was beneficial. Like I'm I'm more into um alternative medicine stuff you guys are doing here than as well like the traditional like let's try put you on a bunch of prescriptions and just see what happens. Yeah, same here. What um and what did that look like? like walk me through kind of the first visit, the labs, meeting with the doctors, all that. Yeah, I came in here. I think Robin was actually the first one I met here and um she she took care of me and just did my my labs here and um then I had I'm hardressed to think of the doctor I always talked to here now's name, but um I had talked with him a bit and um he he had said, "Yeah, like what you're telling me your symptoms you are experiencing symptoms of low testosterone." And once he did the blood work, it was like your numbers aren't terrible, but definitely like you're in the low tea range and you're experiencing symptoms. So, you know, we we'll try to get you on a low dose and see what it works. And it has been really helpful for me, man. Yeah. Yeah. So, what So, what did you guys do from there? And what have like the results been like for you? It's been really good, man. Like, I feel like my skin gets tighter every day. Like, I'm I'm leaning out a little bit. The muscle the lean muscle mass is is up a bit. Energy levels feel better. Sex drive feels better. um you know overall quality of life's better. What did the timeline of that look like? Like how long until you kind of started you noticing results and so on? Yeah, I want I want to say like maybe like about a month you know after I was in it or about a month I was like man I feel pretty good here like this you know feels like things are working. Gotcha. What were what were the things that you did through Bened Matrix? Really now I'm I'm only doing the um testosterone replacement therapy um where we've explored a couple other things mainly just cuz um I could stand to lose a few more pounds. So, um, there's a couple other things I might explore in here, but as of now, I'm just on testosterone replacement therapy. Okay, nice. What So, yeah, you've noticed like walk me through like some of the changes you've noticed in your health. Like you said, more energy. Like, how is that showing up dayto-day for you? The improvements. Yeah, more energy. Like, man, like right now, I need to stop working so much. I've been doing too much. But like, I have that is a part of it. It's like, man, I got more energy to work overtime now and like, you know, grind out some extra hours, make some more money. And um also, you know, getting in the gym regularly and just having energy to also like go out and do fun things and that's awesome. Stuff like that, you know, beyond the work week and whatnot. Yeah, that's sweet. What is um aside from like Yeah. What is the, you know, customer service care? What has it been like working with the team here? How's that been? Uh I think everybody here has been really good, man. Like you guys run a good operation here. Um my mom lives down in Boca Raton, South Florida. Um so I was seeing the kind of stuff I feel like you guys are ahead of the curve here like big time. But um you know I had seen a couple places around her and was like man you know I'd like to maybe uh see see what's going on at these kind of places and get some treatments or whatnot. So Oh nice you know soon as you guys got in here um one of my buddies uh Chris Goule had recommended it for me. He's a personal trainer at Foley Fitness. He's like yeah we're in a partnership with these guys man. Like if you're going to go that route like give these guys a holl. Oh that's awesome. Yeah foley. They're great. Yeah Foley's awesome. Is that where you work out now still? You know what? I actually don't go to Foley's Fitness. I live in Windham and really um I'm right off the main dragon 302. So Planet Fitness is really just about the only one that's super convenient to me. Otherwise, I would love to go to Foley. It's just totally out of my work commute range and a little I'm with you from home. Yeah. I mean, you got to it's like the gym's got to be convenient. Yeah. Um Yeah. Foley is nice. Like my drive home, so Oh, that's cool, man. I I freaking love so many people that work there, too. skip um was a great
