I’ve started sub-q a few months ago. 140mg per week split into 2 doses in the abdomen with a 27g half inch pulling skin up. First lab came back at Total test 580.
Doctor said I can try 160mg per week split into 2 doses.
Just wondering if before I raised dose if maybe same dose I am on in a more vascular site like the thigh would raise levels more.
Has anyone done both sites, same dose, sub-q and had different results?
Personally being in surgery often and seeing the difference first hand it would seem the abdominal fat would be better suited for TRT. I’m making that statement based on zero fact and mostly because abdominal fat looks like butter and leg fat looks like dehydrated mozzarella. Dr Crisler says something similar in one of his videos on sub-q.
Also, after 6 months of daily sub-q injections in the navel area I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right so I got bloods taken and using a total weekly dosage of 185mg my total T came back at 2000. It definitely works.
I inject in belly 2x a week total 112mg a week and I get to 720 total t on trough. So am absorbing pretty good
For Insulin the order of uptake seems to be abdomen, arm, thighs and buttocks. I.e. subq into buttocks releases the drug the slowest and gives the lowest variability between injections. Seems to be caused by the lowest degree of vascularization. But no idea if this is also true for T.
‘As insulin is absorbed fastest from the abdomen, slower from the arm followed by thighs and buttocks, choice of injection region may for many insulin preparations influence the metabolic response to insulin [67, 111, 115, 118, 122–125, 130, 131].’
But I mainly inject into the buttocks because I didnt like the brusing on my abdomen from. I get them after injecting into my belly but interesting not when injecting in the buttocks. No idea why.
I think the degree of vascularization / the injection site only impacts the height of the spike, availability should be the same between sites of injection modes (im vs subq).
There is some data out there claiming subq giving higher T levels than im (about 20%), but theres is also data thats shows same bioavailability.
Thanks everyone.