I just turned 50 with normal blood and liver profiles but low serum Test. levels and received a perscription for 200 mg. Testosterone Cyponate/week. Realising that every ones metabolism is unique, and not trusting the knowledge base of the physician on this issue, does this dose, given that it would be taken with out cycling off, seem safe?
Also; would it be prudent to occasionally cycle in an anabolic agent such as Deca or Winstrol but remain on the Test. again for life? I’d appreciate any constructive feed back. Thanks
Cycling: When you need HRT, you stay on it. Loss of fertility as the body stops stimulating the testes with LH is not a concern for most. At that dose, your testes will be turned off and will get smaller. Injections of HCG will prevent that. Some care about this, some do not.
If the weekly dose is 200mg testosterone cyp, that is quite high and you may be overloaded, at least as first you will be. Most test cyp is 200mg/ml and many are started off at .5ml for 100mg. About 65% of the test cyp ends up as free testosterone.
I suggest that you try the 100mg/week and see how that goes. It will take a while for your body and mind to adjust to the HRT and I would expect that you will want more than 100mg/week. I think that if I started at 200mg/week that I would have some problems. And starting with higher doses might create some estrogen level problems too.
I expect that this post will be moved to the “over 35 lifter” forum where the other HRT posts are.
Hi, Thank you for the response. Yes I’m actually 7 weeks into the program and I’m certainly not “new” to the use of injectables. In fact that’s why I decided to opt for the higher doseage given that I have had a history of use. The amounts however in the past have been around this same range though, 200 mg Test. combined usually with Deca at the same dosage level. So I agree with you that while certainly not excessive this does put me at a very high or even supraphysiological level, hence the concern of long term safety. I guess the rational approach to this is to opviously monitor blood levels but do you see any potential problems with occasionally augmenting with an anabolic, again such as Deca. and not experiensing a crash when cycling off the Deca.? Also, do you think an anti-aromatase or estrogen inhibitor would be warrented? Thanks!