Looking for advice, these are my blood test numbers after 3 months on TRT. I feel amazing and the benefits have been life changing. My only side effects now that occur on injection day are feeling anxious and my heart seems to beat a little harder. I also recently started having annoying minor headaches over the last week (unsure if associated with TRT). I inject 100ml of 200mg 1 x per week. BP is 125/62.
Considering my current testosterone levels, would lowering my dose to maybe 80 mg per week reduce my side effects? I’ve read that too much free T could be the cause of these issues.
Clarify your dose as @anon18050987 stated. I’m assuming you are at 200mg/wk so lowering to 80mg would be too far. Your BP is fine so I don’t know if the headaches would be related. May I suggest talking to your doc about injecting 2x per week instead? Spit the dose in half and inject on Weds/Sun for example. That will smooth out the peaks and valleys plus you have low SHBG. It may help.
Hi, thanks for the reply. I inject 0.5 mLs of testosterone cypionate IM 1x per week. (My prescribed dose is 0.5 mLs of 200 mg/ml Testosterone cypionate)
Correct. See below the peaks and valleys of your drug release taking a large dose once a week versus a smaller twice a week. That larger spike in T release may be associated with your headaches etc. Just one possibility of many, but either way I always put the disclaimer in to discuss any changes with your doc. We are not medical professionals, just helping you with ammunition for your cause.
FWIW, I’m running a little experiment trying to lower DHT to reduce back acne and supplement TRT benefits with pow dose Nandrolone. I’m trying to push Test dose as low as possible - just enough to provide sufficient Estrogen and DHT… ran 80mg/wk Test C for 2 weeks and was having a few low estrogen symptoms (mostly out-of-character headaches only experienced previously during AI use). If you recall, my SHBG was a bit lower than OP.
^I didn’t think 80mg/wk would be low enough to cause these kinds of issues.
@Howee you might want to consider injecting more frequently with that low SHBG value. My provider recommended EOD or ED pinning with SHBG at 10-12 whereas yours is at 15.
