Joint Pain After Decreasing Shot Frequency

Nothing has changed, workout wise.

I went from E3D, 50mg per shot, to 120mg once a week. My joint pain in shoulders came back after switching.

I don’t have labs, but what could’ve caused this? Shoulders felt great on E3D, but now, they’re achy again. I recall this was the case last time i was on a decreased shot frequency.

Only thing i can think is that E2 gets low towards end of week.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josep-Verges/publication/8096869_Weather_conditions_can_influence_rheumatic_diseases/links/5719fa3808ae30c3f9f35e3f/Weather-conditions-can-influence-rheumatic-diseases.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26247196

Weather?

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Your experience is the OPPOSITE of what normally happens, when going more infrequent.

Usually with more infrequent injections E2 is higher, and T falls off later in the week giving you a ratio more skewed to E2, and hence E2 associated symptoms. You should have LESS joint pain.

Right? That was my thought too.

I can’t understand it. I should have higher E2 id think.

May be a temporary symptom. I personally would wait about 2 weeks after pain started to see if it goes away without changing anything.

Has it been proven that E2 lowers for everyone? In some cases we see it go higher or remain the same but now its “constant”

My experience with going higher frequency was that E2 increased, not decreased.

I think most need to reduce dose a bit when going more frequent.