I know that blood levels typically peak around 72 hours, but how long after shot do levels start rising and by how much typically?
Levels peak within 48 hours, not 72 hours. You’re asking the wrong question, you want to know how fast levels start declining after 48 hours and the answer is different for everyone and is determined by how fast you metabolize and excrete testosterone.
If levels peak within 48 hours, you have you answer how fast levels rise which is within 48 hours, but how much levels rise is depend on the individual which means the only you can answer this question.
I feel the effects of injected testosterone immediately, so I can say my levels rise right away, your levels may be rising immediately and you just don’t feel it.
In any case it will take 6 weeks for the half lives to build in your system and I expect you to feel good on and off for the next 6 weeks until levels are stable, however if you change your dosage at anytime, you must wait another 6 weeks until levels are stable.
Testosterone Cyp (half life 8 days) -steady state in 40 days, you will have double the testosterone in your system by 40 days.
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Agreed, and I bet they are within 10-15% of that peak within 24 hours.
Most people say the same thing your saying about the half lives building in your post you state 6 weeks it takes.
It makes sense but I don’t fully understand that, Is there someone that can break this down a little more in detail?
Lets say you inject 100mg. This means you are creating a depot (storage cell) in the tissue. After 7 days, 50mg of this depot will be released into the blood. Another 7 days 25 mg will be released. Another 7 days 12.5mg will be released and so forth.
So you need multiple depots all releasing T into the blood in order to accrue levels that are stabilized.
In other words, the rate of excretion of the medication is equal to the rate of ingestion. It takes about 6 weeks to reach this point, before that, the rate of excretion is higher than ingestion.
Hope this makes sense.
Its very individual. I believe I metabolize enanthate for example very quickly and it peaks a few hours after injection. I researched there is some gene responsible for that…
I’m sure they are others peaking within 36-48 hours, some guys are ahead of the rest of the pack.
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