Hi guys,
I got my labs done and I’m currently taking around 100mg weekly split into two injections of 50mg Tuesday and Friday.
I feel pretty good, I do have days where my libido is very high and days where it’s nothing amazing. I do notice a little water retention if I am being picky.
My estrogen is a bit high. Let me know any suggestions or what you think. I have my follow up with my urologist next Wednesday to go over the labs.
Would recommend posting the lab results.
Oops! Thought I did. Good catch 
Well it won’t let me upload my labs so I’ll write them out.
Total Test- 607ng/dl range (250-1100
Free testosterone - 145 pg/mlrange (46-224)
SHGB - 16 nmol/l range (10-50)
Estradial - 45pg/ml
Albumin - 4.5
I have more labs too but this is some of it.
What day of the week did you draw your labs?
I got my labs drawn on a Tuesday morning before giving myself my injection.
Perfect. These are honestly decent trough numbers especially for a lower end dose. If you go higher your E2 will as well so I would stay the course especially since you’re seeing benefits.
Thanks for getting back to me. I noticed like certain days out of the week my libido is very very high and some days for instance yesterday it was not great and sensitivity was down too. I was thinking of lowering the testosterone maybe.. Only thing I could think of is it’s the estrogen. But overall I’m happy with the numbers mostly being middle range healthy nothing to high or to low.
I doubt lowering it would help. Your SHBG is low and some have reported better results from micro dosing with low SHBG. You could try pinning ED or EOD. Same dose though for now’s
I’ve heard that with shgb being lower it’s better to do more frequent injections. I honestly don’t think I could stick with doing it more than twice a week. I already take other medications and another Injection so it’s a lot to remember. I was just thinking if I lowered it a hair my estrogen would go down. But I’m guessing if 45 estrogen was my trough then imagine how high it is during peak.
You could try compounded arimadex. Defy gives me .125mg capsules which I take with each pin also doing 2x a week. It’s an AI and a little goes a long way. It’s normally prescribed in 1mg tabs which is too much for most.
That’s good to know. I’m trying to avoid the estrogen blockers if possible. I know it sounds fussy. I crashed my estrogen back in the day from one of those stupid T Clinics and I feel like I should be able to manage my estrogen through injection frequency and dosage. I’m just stubborn doing more than twice a week dosing haha.
Hey man you do what works for you.