I have severe itchy acne breakout from 100 mg every 4 days so I switch to 50 mg every week . A little loss of muscle mass only. Is this an acceptable dose. In sun 200 mg per month
so you cut your dosage from 25mg/day to 7mg per day (175mg/wk to 50mg/wk)?
I think a more prudent response would have been to drop from 100mg every 4 days to 50mg every 3.5 days and see how that goes. Based on your question though, I imagine this is better placed in the #pharma forum, but maybe your Dr. is just very ignorant about the treatment they’re giving you.
What does your bloodwork look like?
Actually from 100 mg every 4 days to 50 mg every 7 days. Blood work upper end.
And the acne went away
Sorry, i should have broken down what I was saying.
Starting dose:
100mg/4days = 25mg/day | 25mg/day x 7 days = 175mg/week
Adjusted Dose:
50mg/week
You cut your dosage drastically. 50mg/wk is a faily low dosage, but if your bloodwork is on the upper end after dropping your dosage - you very well could be fine.
The acne on your orignal cycle isn’t surprising, some people just get acne on cycle. It’s good that the acne stopped once you lowered your dosage though.
Thank you
I’m thinking that dose is too low to be of any benefit. You can try it, of course, but you’ll probably need at least 100mg a week.
I assume you’ve tried various acne remedies?
You didn’t just drop your dosage by 50 percent, you went from 100mg every 4 days to 50mg every 7, a pretty dramatic dosage reduction!
Dialing in should be done making small course corrections, not big ones or you risk overshooting your mark.
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Dunno, what do labwork say?
Imo you suppress your natural test and replace it with less than you would produce natural… Wtf?
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Was on 50 mg test cypionate every 7 days but still experiencing severe oily skin and itchy pimples. So I switched to 60 mg every 9-10 days. Still able to maintain lean muscle despite eating like a pig. Any thoughts with this new regimen? Thank you
Skin less oily. Pimples are somewhat controlled!
First usually when we get the breakouts and oily skin, it can be estrogen related. Second it’s quite possible that your new regiment is getting your levels high enough, however the only way to know is to know aka blood work. FYI we have no idea what you weigh so that whole mgs per week as a dosing reference is not relative. Mgs per lbs per week or whatever timeframe would be a better way for us to have an idea based on the dose alone. But really with trt the trick is, where do you feel good, and I think you answered that.
Hello. My testosterone blood level is on the hi limits. Ht: 6. At 180 lbs. do I need estrogen level as well? Thank you
60mg every 9-10 days sounds like you’re giving yourself just enough test to fuck up your natural production, but not enough to maintain overall higher T averages.
Most TRT regimens range from 100-200mg per week. You should be getting comprehensive blood tests to actually know what’s going on with your body.
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Yep.
I also believe that with such low dose you just shut down natural test and replace it with LESS test than you would have natural.
Unless your bloodwork shows you are at the top range on this dosage, id say its way way below normal.
For someone who trains, i dont think that doing less 180-200mg a week is good. My bloodwork was perfect at 290mgs. I believe that 180-200mg can be sustained for life.
Dont see the point of going lower than you can go. I believe that the idea is doing as much as possible without the consequences.
What your dose sounds like is the opposite - you get shut down and dont get anything for it. IMO.
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For some people
Does your bloodwork fucks up around 200? And if so, by how much?
I’m not who you asked, but at 140mg per week from the compounding pharmacy, dosed 40/50/50mg M-W-F evenings, my Monday morning bloods had me at 1150 ng/dL total T (264-916 range) and 30.4 pg/mL free T (6.8-21.5 range), both above the top of the range of the lab work. So we agreed to drop it to 120mg/week, 40/40/40 M-W-F and see what we get from there. E2 was 25.1 pg/mL at that dose with no AI, so just about perfect.
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only you can say if it will work for you. try it an see
You said it yourself often Hank: bloodwork doesn’t tell you that much. It’s as good as we can get data but it’s for sure not sufficient to judge cardiovascular health. Doctors take bloodwork to make changes to prevent disease. If the bloodwork shows that there’s damage to your heart, it’s already severe.
There’s a distribution of tolerability for drugs (including test) and that means that the vast majority can deal with x dose over x decades. For example a dose that puts you at 900 ng/dL is tolerable over many decades for say 99% of the population and should not shorten live span but enhance health span. A serum testosterone of 1400 ng/dL could then only be tolerable for 90% of the population. Meaning higher cancer rates, higher cardiovascular incidents, and so on.
I don’t know the numbers and since wide spread TRT prescription is not that old, we’ll get the numbers probably in a few decades. I’m not of the opinion that higher testosterone is that risky. I’m also not one of those that thinks covid is all in all particularly risky for the (healthy) individual. But some people freak out if you don’t wear a mask outside on the side walk because they can’t tolerate the exact same risk. You have a very high risk tolerance and you already explained why. Unreal often makes posts judging the situation if it is applied to the whole population as no one know who we are dealing with here.
An individual risk of 0.1% in the end means in 100 million people, 100.000 are dying of it. Depending on time frame, a medication that produces that outcome because of it is pulled from the market in a matter of days.
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