I’m on 100mg of Test C plus HCG per week for my TRT protocol. What would be more beneficial- dosing all 100mg of Test C at once or injecting 50mg and then 3.5 days later injecting the other 50mg?
Any info much appreciated
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Definetly better to inject every 3,5 days.
Every 2 days would be even better.
There is a belief that if you SHBG is low, your body clears test pretty fast. At worst i have seen my body lower test around 10% a day.
So you want 100mg a week but every day you dont inject you get 10% less and less.
On such low doses your SHBG is probably fine and what i described is more to ilustrate the idea, but… split up as much as you can in my opinion is better… i do ED injections no matter what doses i take.
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Thx man. So injecting 50mg every 3.5 days you think I’ll get better results than 100mg all at once. So 50mg isn’t too small a dose then every 3.5 days?
I do 40mg on M-W-F mornings. I was doing 80mg every 3.5 days and it required 0.25mg of adex to keep E2 in check. I lowered it to 120mg a week but split it up further and my total and free T are just as high in the trough as they were on 160mg per week. In fact, 140mg per week split 40-50-50 mg M-W-F had me over the top of the range for total and free in my trough.
More frequent injections better mimic the body’s natural production. Obviously you wouldn’t want to inject 3x a day every day or whatever, but the more frequent you can tolerate it, I say go for it.
Very informative. Thank you very much. I’ll do 50mg every 3.5 days now
This just isn’t a hard and fast statement.
OP: try infrequent spacing. Then reassess. THEN start slowly increasing frequency.
Some seem to do better with shots spaced out and more fluctuation of levels.
Somewhat… but…
The best way to mimic natural production would be gels/creams/jatenzo.
Best frequency for you for water retention?
There is no one size fits all. From what I have seen, almost every guy that has tried daily injections has gone back to twice or once weekly dosing. But, so what? If you feel better with whatever dose volume or frequency, then do it. However, keep in mind that just because it works for you, does not mean it is best for everyone else, or even anyone else.
Just saying twice a week is better than once is incorrect. Likewise, if twice a week is better than once, it does not follow that every other day is better that twice a week. By that reasoning, would twice a day be better than once a day? How about three times a day? Where do you draw the line? Seriously, I’m waiting to read about the guy that tries twice daily so they are “smooth and stable”. Many do not seem to realize that testosterone fluctuates quite a bit throughout the day, naturally. That is probably a good thing.
As an aside, some may find this interesting. I meet people all the time and in the course of the introduction the inevitable question, “what do you do?” comes up. Upon learning what I do, guys often tell me they are on TRT. Most under the care of a PCP or urologist. All get 200mg twice monthly. Shocking, but they are happy and report great results. Could they feel even better? Maybe, but it would never occur to them to jump on the internet and try daily dosing.
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Good post, thank you. Ive always tried dailys, hasn’t really done anything. I am now thinking to try spacing it to see if slight peak and troughs actually help. In your professional opinion, would you go for dailys to try EOD, or jump to E3D?
Based on what I hear, almost everyone going from once a week because they notice the drop towards the trough are fine with twice a week. Those that move on to every other day or daily dosing end up back to once or twice a week, not because they were worse with more frequent dosing, but they were not doing better and once or twice weekly is easier.
Interestingly, there are some who are irregular with their dosing schedule, ranging from six to ten days. Lab results are inconsistent, which leads me to ask when they took the last injection. It is not intentional, they just don’t think of it or if they do, don’t take it at the time. They report no difference in the way they feel.
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I wonder why more emphasis isn’t placed upon creams and gels. They mimic natural output most closely.
Because they are a pain in the ass to administer
I did axiron for awhile and it was quite simple.
Shots are the most pain. Although none of the applications seem a pain.
If you really dig around the internet some dudes even mention feeling better on less frequent injections. Maybe something with DHT conversion? Maybe enjoying a high peak then getting to relax with an actual trough? Not sure, but some of us exist that tried high frequency and actually felt worse.
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