Hi,
I have been on 250mg Testosterone Enanthate injections every 3 weeks, and my doctor won’t give me shots any more often…
Even though I have only been on TRT for 2 months, from what i can feel and understand, Test-E or Cypionate should be injected more often…
There is an online underground steroids marketplace out here in South Korea, and even though I don’t know if I can trust the products coming in from Hong Kong to be the real deal, I am thinking about trying this…
Is Test-E and Cypionate more or less the same thing?
And should a small dosage of an AI like Arimidex be a good addition in order to keep the side effects at bay? I have experience terrible facial swelling a few times…
Familiarise yourself with the law, from what I recall China is cracking down on UGL’s, general manufacturing of AAS… China isn’t knowing for being the friendliest towards citizens who break the law
Whether 250mg constitutes as a trt dose or not depends on a number of variables
where does it put you’re TT/FT at, if you’re at like 2500ng/dl with ft 3-4x the top of the reference range then no… it isn’t trt. If you’re at 1300 with FT slightly over (1.25-1.5x over or so)… then perhaps
how do you feel on said dose
how does it impact lipids, haematological parameters, blood work in general
If possible I’d get cardiac examinations done every year or so (echocardiogram)… if it checks out, you could extend checkups to every couple/few yrs
For most, 250mg may be a wee bit too high, 150-225mg weekly is generally the dosage statistically most (aiming for hormonal optimisation) end up on… though a select cohort does use 250mg weekly long term, some even use 300… for individuals with PAIS, they might even use 500-1000mg long term
One must also differentiate the individuals looking for hormonal optimisation and those cruising/using for enhancement. Aside from cycling gear, some like to use marginally higher dosages long term to
consistently look enhanced/gain muscle mass at a more rapid pace for perhaps therapeutic or aesthetic purposes
maintain a very large frame in which massive amounts of muscle mass reside on due to prolonged use of high dose anabolic androgenic steroids
This is called a cruise… I cruise… but I don’t cycle… however my story is irrelevant and unimportant here
The question at stake was “is 250mg weekly a trt dose”… my answer is “it can be, but typically isn’t”
Pretty much, just a slightly longer ester. Most cannot appreciate any difference between the two, but some prefer enanthate over cypionate. I’m not sure I’ve heard from anyone who likes cypionate over enanthate.
Yes, weekly is the most common frequency.
Should not be necessary.
If intermittent, can you correlate it to anything, within a week of the injection, diet, etc.?
This is stupid, you need a new doctor, it’s as simple as that. You might as well not even be on TRT because there is little to “no benefit” on the prescribed protocol.
The half-lives are different, enanthate has a half-life of 5-6 days, cypionate 7-8 days.
You have your protocol to thank for that, the dosage is clearly too much for you in a single injection.
No you need a new doctor, I imagine your facial swelling will be worse at 250 every 2 weeks than it was on 250 every 3 weeks. These protocols create estrogen dominance, the most probable cause of your facial swelling.
You are going to need multiple injections per week considering the symptoms you are already encountering.
No they don’t, and no data exists to indicate this, Alterations in water retention may be in part due to the rapid shifts in hormonal output induced by the dosage of exogenous testosterone given. Many a times on a new protocol regardless of dose water retention will initially appear… as the body re-attains homeostasis this issue resolves by itself
Most guys will never reach homeostasis on an every 2-3 week protocol, they will feel like garbage.
This is what @geneticoverride needs, more frequent injections to minimize/eliminate these side effects. I suspect he will have problems on the every 2 week protocol.
Likely will have most men who use that amount with Supra physiological values of both T and E. But I’m someone who believes hardly anyone needs more than 100.