Stop worrying about estrogen man. Educate yourself on the benefits and stop believing broscience fairy tales come from the body building world and prep regimes they used to get ready for a show. We are on a 10th of their dose.
IM works for some but subq is better for most. It’s easy to switch between the two. Just do yourself a favor and re educate yourself on estrogen. You have more things to worry about than that.
yeah I know sub q raised my estrogen like crazy when I had high estrogen doing sub q my dose was 50 mg twice a week low dose my test never got over 600 and my estrogen was always on the 60 but didn’t feel symptoms like now but also didn’t feel like trt was working. Kind of weird!
Not worried about estrogen like you are suggesting. I was curious to read any actual data/studies on the topic. Being curious and informing oneself (with legitimate science) I believe is still considered ok.
Yes, but IM daily is a bit delicate. Injecting in the shoulder can hit a blood vessel and a lot of attention and care is needed.
Yes it can but I’ve never heard of it happening. I would do subq. IM daily is more work for sure.
I finally got the results for my testosterone at 200 mg a week test shot on Tuesday night and blood drawn Friday morning for peak results.
Test is 1353 range is 250 - 827
Estradiol is 42 range is < or = 39
This was done with quest diagnostics
Posted because I was feeling high e symptoms after going to to low on e 5 weeks ago e was at 5
42 is definitely not high for E2. Like everybody says, let things stabilize for a while before your next move.
What you think about the t dose? I’m at 200 mg a week
Try 160mg weekly.
Alright I thought so, I knew that was a little too high for me
updates?
Did you stay at 200mg or drop to 160mg?
I stayed at 200mg for some reason my symptoms disappeared at week 5… idk what was that all about, thinking my body was getting used to the higher e2 levels wich are at the same now but without the sides how weird is that?
Sounds like exactly what happens when you don’t change things too early congrats!
Very common. You just figured it out a lot earlier than a lot of people!
Good point
Yup, my next step is to include hcg in my protocol because I want to have babies in the future and also heard that it will make you feel better along side trt, looking for a protocol that I can do with my 200mg weekly injection.
You should post a thread along who is on TRT + HCG, feels great and at what dosage. Would love to see that. It doesn’t seem like many here on HCG & TRT do well on it.
I’m curious about that too. I saw a poll on Facebook earlier and a few people really loved their HCG. More sensitivity, more libido, better money shots. Sounds like a winner in theory if so. But hasn’t been the reality for me thus far unfortunately
It could be that most people start with both at the same time and never get dialed in and starting with T first then later adding HCG is the recipe for success. I also read that HCG for adrenal issues will make you feel worse for like 12 weeks before you start to feel better so is it a “give it enough time” approach? I’m sure a lot of it boils down to it affecting everyone differently for one reason or another.