No matter the dosing, I tend to get low libido after my shot. I’m trying to figure out why this would be. Testosterone rising quickly and estrogen not keeping up? Testosterone rising but estrogen also rising at the same time reducing libido? Anything else I could be missing?
This is so consistent, it even happened with the cream. I’d apply the cream at say 9:00 in the morning and then lack libido until the couple of hours before it was time to re-apply the cream.
I like most things hormone related, I imagine the answer is in the blood work. I would check when your libido is high, when it’s low, before a shot, after a shot. Get the data, address what looks off.
A steady, near constantly elevated hormone levels across the board, compared to naturally rise and fall of hormones.
That will do it. Jatenzo solves this problem for me. On injections, I only get libido in a very short window after stopping my injections.
Thanks. Did you get Jatenzo approved through insurance?
Yes, because of treatment failure for years, my endocrinologist gave me a medical exception that got my insurance to cover it.
$4 co-pay.
Better libido closer to trough hence I prefer less frequency. Never was able to replicate the better feeling on trough with more frequent dosing no matter what dose I did or what my levels were.
Yes, this is why i’m not sure blood tests are helpful. So, I can take 200mg on a Monday and be feeling really good libido 10 days later. So, blood test reveals T of 622 and E2 of 27 when I have good libido. So I think, ok, i’ll just target those numbers.
Doesn’t work out that way though.
This is my experience always. Once I get dosing too close together, libido is zero.
@crashnet @oxs22 wow well I am glad I am reading other people saying this. Something I always noticed and couldn’t explain through out my journey, and why I can never make too much frequency work no matter the dosing. While the less frequency we have some better days it’s still not perfect.
Not only libido but overall well being I would say. To summarize again: inject one day a week feel better towards trough, try to replicate with ED/EOD frequency doesn’t work and feel like poop all the time.
Daily/EOD frequency is a nightmare for me, even with propionate. A good friend of mine who started trt 6 months before I did had the same experience. He would skip his weekly dose and found that his best libido would be after the 7 days up until 10-14 days. The shot would kill his libido, but it would come back strong by the end of the week.
Being the idiot I am, I convinced him because of all the information online to do more frequent shots, he felt horrible. Eventually he quit trt for other reasons but he always says if he went back on he would do 200mg every 2 weeks.
I wonder if it’s related to the speed at which we process the testosterone or it’s metabolites, who knows. Either way, despite having some not so great days after a big shot, I feel like it’s probably better to feel good some of the time, rather than not at all.
Use an insulin pump to have it inject every hour brah. Mo “stability” meng!
I don’t notice any correlation between libido and injection timing. I’ve also not really noticed a difference between one weekly injections and twice weekly. Although I have stuck with twice weekly for years.
My di*k is all over the place, from morning wood till sleep…
43 yo and counting…
200mg / 3 shots, no AI or HCG.
Just to confirm, you mean all over the place as in performing optimally?
Yup, everything in place,all over my lady 
Sometimes even manual labor included 
It’s Saturday my shot is Monday. Libido has been raging up since yesterday. That’s not to say erections are good but all of a sudden as we talked about this is the best libido I have since I did my shot last Monday.
As we said again I can try to replicate this time frame with ED/EOD injections, but no it’s actually worse.
Twice a week is the best, for me.
Tried ED, EOD, 2xW, Monday / Thursday = Bingo
Have you ever pushed it beyond 1 week between injections?
Temporarily, not a set frequency. I will be honest not injecting on the same day(s) each week makes my brain itch lol. So I would have to go to every 2 weeks.
I have similar things going on too. I feel like my libido increases when I miss a couple doses for whatever reason. Then once I take my shot it goes away again. I am taking 200mg twice per week of T-Cypionate. I am not very consistent at taking my shots on a routine schedule. My levels are usually between 980-1100.
I am 44 and work 12 hour shifts on the night beat so my sleep sucks. I drink too much and eat like complete crap so I know all those obviously play a major role. I just cleaned up my diet in the last month and started a peptide routine to the mix to see if any of that will help. I am at 6’2 and 280 around 26-30% body fat. I’d like to try to get down to 250 and cut my body fat in half.
The nice part about the T-Cyp is I can go balls to the wall in the gym and I wake up like I didn’t do anything. I feel like I’m 25 again except for Little Craig doesn’t want to come out and play and when he does he’s lazy and quits after 5 minutes. I am hoping some of the peptides will help. If anyone else has some advice I am definitely listening. Thanks guys.