I posed this question to the TRT forum some time ago (Oct 2018).
It’s a feelings game to me, not a numbers game.
Don’t tell me that 100mg is the clinical dose so I should be fine, cause 125mg still gave me low T feelings when getting into the 400s from 80s (hypogonadism).
Same with 250mg.
It wasn’t until I was on 250mg x2 that I felt “normal” again.
I know the risks, accept them, and mitigate them to the best of my ability (eating clean, supplementing with more vitamins just in case, donating blood…).
I’ve been on 500mg for years now. Gains? I think even at my diet they suck. It’s not until I add 250mg (750mg total) or orals to my 500mg base that I see the 5-20 pound gains (dry/wet).
My body composition has drastically changed on 500mg, but my life has changed much more to a higher degree that’s indescribable.
So to you mimicking 100mg is clinical (it’s not per US as they can go to 200mg; and here in Japan it’s 125mg x1 per week or 250mg x1 every 2 weeks), I say it’s bunk.
I’ll pop in around every once in a while to update my TRT (i.e. show you 500mg won’t kill you) protocol and the different orals (and hopefully veterinary grade injectables I can get my hands on) I take to show you it’s bunk—you can have T of 2500~ and be within normal lab ranges (which are considered much lower in Japan compared to other areas) and be perfectly healthy.
Maybe I’m an outlier. Who knows?