For me TT of ~600 ng/dl from 125mg of Cypionate weekly seems about right. Lower end of your curves. Add my HCG numbers and I’m quite average…. coincidence.
Let’s be honest though, a lot of us don’t take our T as prescribed. Many of us are chasing that next bench press PR and indulge in that extra 50 or 75mg a week. Separately, during the first year or so of TRT it’s hard to ignore the temptation of “more must be better” and take more than we are prescribed. I suppose this is only possible if you’re doctor allows that extra ampule or surplus “rainy day” Testosterone. Or if you’re ampules are not reusable and you are supposed to discard half of its contents and use a fresh or the following week…
Covid has proven that we don’t know what is around the corner. I think most reasonable doctors seem to be open to allowing patients to stockpile a little reserve. This is what allows the abuse and therefore skewed data however.
Wondering if it would be worth gathering a dataset with a tighter acceptance criteria. Perhaps scanned in/photographed only labs from members. Genuine mistakes happen but there’s little to gain from being dishonest about our dosing online and the effort of posting real labs somewhat sorts the wheat from chaff. It would be interesting to compare samples of verified vs medical(@highpull) vs self-reported unverified(my above style of submission). I do appreciate though that sharing print outs of labs to 2 decimal places limits the quasi anonymity we all enjoy that enable free discussion on precarious topics on this forum.
On the topic of stats, similar e2 response curves would be nice. E2 as function of SHBG, body fat percentage, DHT???
Erectile dysfunction severity as function of age, TT, E2, blood pressure, body fat. Specifically a curve of the ratio of pulse pressure/e2(vertical axis) vs ED severity(horizontal axis). How to define ED severity? Not easy. Number of episodes, time with erection?
Coming up with a starting point or something semi quantitative on why some do well with high e2 and some not so well would be a huge stride for the community.
P and Q tests?
Also PSA vs e2 & pulse pressure vs HCT jump
to mind.
What a ramble!
Just thinking out loud. Anyways good work.