Sorry for the questions but I always get confused on these damn syringes what notch on a 3cc syringe would I pull to on a eod dose? What notch on a 3.5 day dose? And with a eod dose should I take half a pill of Arimidex every 2 days instead of eod ?
You need to learn to do the math
Way too much anastrozole is suppressing your SHBG.
Also you could afford to up your T dose once you get the low SHBG (Low E2) figured out.
I bet your cholesterol is out of wack.
Yes triglycerides are high at last blood panel. How much ai do you think I should take and how often?
I donāt know if you need any. Let it rebound, heck hope it rebounds. Then since youāre not suppressing aromatase, your TT is gonna drop.
Thats why I think you may end up needing to bump your dose just a tad.
I Suck at math go eat a dick or answer the question.
Usually just a 0.25mg once or twice per week is plenty anastrozole for TRT dosages, if you need any at all.
At first it is common to need a little more. As you lose fat your body wonāt make as much.
But never go over 1mg per week without good reason, IMO.
Youāre taking 1.75mg per week, way too much, for conservative TRT dosages.
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Thank you so much this helps I will cut my dose back. Now that you mention that my E was off the charts and could not lose any fat around mid section until I started the ai and in first two months lost 10lbs wonder if that was from ai? But now itās like I hit a wall.
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You can always add it back in at a lower dosage after SHBG rebounds a little.
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Makes total sense, is sbgh something I ask for during a blood panel or is that considered the estrodial or something else?
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Yea you can get it tested, there should be a calculator online though. You can calculate it from your free t, but it is an estimation so some people get it tested.
Anastrozole is really good at increasing free T, so if you take too much this happens.
Itās a common thing too, because guys worry about sides so much they preemptively take an AI. I would argue you that you shouldnāt do that, because it is a lot easier to bring E2 down, than it is to get SHBG and E2 to come up.
So as most suggest here, you wait for symptoms or really lab work before taking an AI.
Well, thatās a low lab range for free T. Itās ~equivalent to 20 ng/dl, which is a very good free figure. They must be testing a bunch of sick/old people, whoās free T falls much more than totals.
Do test your shbg every now and then. If itās low, the most logical place to look is insulin signaling and glucose control, so that means checking all those numbers (a1c, fasting insuling, fasting glucose, etc.) which isnāt a bad idea anyways.
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Thatās 10 pounds of water weight, nothing else. Straight up bloat from high E2, and you lowered your E2 with an AI. NO math involved.
Those numbers will be all be off too because E2 mediates them. So the root problem, is not enough E2. It is very important for men, I would argue even more important than testosterone.
Also thats why cholesterol will be rekt.
It really is dangerous to be injecting drugs and not understanding how much you are taking or how to figure it out. I have low shbg, barely in the range. I take 23mg daily. On an insulin syringe itās 11.5 units my test is 200mg/ml
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Yes about 6 months ago my estrogen was way high and felt horrible but my doc wouldnāt prescribe an ai so found a doc that would and this is my first panel since Iāve started taking an ai.
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Youāre asking everyone here to do the math with this kind of thing, and you are leaving out crucial information from the equation. We have to divine the mg/mL strength from this, which appears to be 200mg/1mL. But we donāt really know that, and itās not a universal strength. If what you are saying is that you are taking 100mg of Test Cyp every 5 days, and that is equivalent to 0.5 cc, or 0.5 mL, then your dose is 140mg per 7 days, or 140mg per week. And if you are self-injecting you should know what you are using. Donāt ask for help and then be a dick because you donāt want to do the math.
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Its a simple fix you just gotta get it titrated correctly. E2 testing is cheap, you can do the female panel on Private MD for 59 bucks.
After a little playing with it, testing to confirm, you will get it dialed in.
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Understand and Iām trying to learn but when these docs tell you something and you feel like shit still you come to forums for answers and then get a mixed bag learning all this takes time, and if my blood levels are in range risk should be minimum. Do the insulin syringes hit the muscle?
What length are the needles, and where are you injecting? And are you trying to do IM (Intra-Muscular) for some particular reason?
And you free T is high, but that is not necessarily a bad thing at all.