Just got my labs back after upping my TRT dose to 180mg/week. I’m feeling great and have no noticeable sides from elevated estrogen. Here’s my latest numbers. This blood draw was taken Monday afternoon before my injection. Last previous injection was Friday morning.
Test total - 1284 ng/dl HIGH
Test free - 374.4 pg/ml HIGH
Estradiol - 63 pg/ml HIGH
FSH - < 0.7 mIU/ml LOW
LH - < 0.2 mIU/ ml LOW
SHBG - 20 nmol/L Normal
Currently I’m only taking Test…no AI or HCG (already have kids don’t want more). With these numbers and no negative sides of elevated Estradiol do you guys recommend staying off the AIs?
I actually feel WAY better with slightly elevated estrogen. If your dick still works and you don’t have any signs of incoming gyno, then don’t worry. If it gets way high and you start feeling bloated and retaining a shirt on of water then I’d take a very small amount of AI. I’m talking baby’s doses. AI will fucking kill you if you’re not careful. Take a small amount only if you have negative sides, and follow up with labs. Estrogen has cardio protective effects and can help you hair looks healthy if you still have it and care. It also just makes me feel mentally better.
I’ve crashed my estrogen out when I first started and didn’t know shit. HCG had my estrogen out of control. I can run 500mg of test with no AI, but baby doses of HCG and I’m growing tits. When I crashed my E2 I felt crazy, just pure rage and misery. All joints hurt. Shed massive amounts of hair. Just a nightmare. Never again.
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If you’re feeling great then absolutely do not change anything.
Also, every single user on this forum needs to start being specific if they’re on real pharmacy test or street drugs. As the “legit” street drugs vary by up to 900% per ml, it is completely useless to state the “dosage”. Blood data is all that matters.
That’s what I was thinking. I know the benefits of Estrogen on my lipids and joints and definitely want to avoid crashing my E too low.
I’ll plan to keep sticking with my 180mg test dose and only use an AI (with very small dose) if needed. I’ll continue with my labs every 6 months as well.
This has been 180mg Test Cyp from a telemedicine clinic until 2 weeks ago. The last 2 weeks I’ve been using Test Cyp from a well reviewed source on other boards.
I am pretty sure that unless some weird mutation, such low dose as 180mgs/wk cannot produce enough e2 to be bad.
Most people should be able to take up to 500 without AI.
Also, when we look at e2, we should understand that if test is high, e2 is high. The problem is when you dont take synthetic steroid thats known to also raise e2, but you have high e2…
If your test is twice the range, the e2 SHOULD also be higher. So does your hematocrit and rbcs.