re: First injection of testosterone: what to expect?

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I am 33 and my level was 400 as well. Interesting that you’re only doing 1 injection a week though.

I’m using cypionate as well but 2x weekly at 70mg each dose along with 500iu of HCG 2x weekly.

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YOU MUST GO TO REJUVEME

I've posted a couple of times

I did my second shot yesterday, and placebo effect or not (I don't care either way), I would swear I have woken up with more energy both days after injection.

Yesterday I injected myself for the first time. It took me a few minutes to pump myself up mentally before going for it bc Im a little bitch, clearly. A lot more resistance than I thought there would be.

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Can you not go Sub-Q daily instead? I'm not sure how that all works.

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no need to do daily. just need to do 2x a week at max, especially subq

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lsu777

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What are your preferred subQ sites? Been rotating around the stomach for past few months. Figured I’d try the thigh subQ the other day, wasn’t easy being able to find enough fat

Yes, if you inject your body stops producing. You can do a post cycle therapy but we were talking about replacement therapy.

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. I inject .22ml subQ. In belly fat every other day. I use a 1/3ml syringe with 31cc needle. Your estrogen and test levels will be much more balanced

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This is what I've read and why I asked. Daily or every other day seems to keep your levels from peaking and valleying too much so why is every week the prescribed method?

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Test cypionate has a 3-5 day half life so doing it every day or every other day would be overdoing it. 2x week is preferred method.

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its actualyl 7-8 days to be exact.

Both of yall are right. Ed or EOD injections are overkill and just causing scar tissue when not needed.

I posted why you do sub q earlier and it has a study linked that the levels stay more consistant when going sub q than IM so even at 3.5 days on average between shots you are looking at less than 25% between peaks and valleys.

So very little is gained between 2 times weekly and eod side effect wise, not to mention sub q keeps side effects down to begin with.

in the end yes EOD injections are better, but it becomes a point of very limited returns and the risk for greater scar tissue build up begins to out weigh anything more than twice weekly.

now if you are for some ungodly reason doing 300mg a week, then yea eod would be the preferred method. truthfully anyhting more than 200mg a week would require that.

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Also, anyone that blanket recommends how much anyone should take is full of shite. Recommended dosage will be based on blood work.

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true and nto true. We know that in almost every case pharma grade test gets you in the 5-8x range for total test. So we know about what the levels should be based on range to keep side effects to a minimum.

now ultimately we know we need to be watching free test, shgb, estro levels etc more than total T and that is where you are correct.

but we do have a very good idea and we know if total T is where it needs to be and those levels are out of whack....well we need to start looking at the symptom and determining the cause and not just saying test is the issue and we need to treat that cause itself. Could be diet, activity level or could be that the person needs to control estrogen with a AI until they get bodyfat level under control.

Could be they need to be on proviron or some other natural supplment like boron to help control shgb and help free test levels remain high.

the ultimate goal is have the estro under control, shgb under control, free test levels at top of range all with using the minimum overall total t all while controlling PSA levels.

So yes 100% you are correct in that we need to see and base dosage recommendation off blood work, but if the dose is way out of line than we know they prolly need to look at other items first.

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Put over 100 lbs on my bench and gained 20 lbs of muscle since I started TRT

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What kind of timeframe we talking about?

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Also, anyone that blanket recommends how much anyone should take is full of shite. Recommended dosage will be based on blood work.

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I've never suggested otherwise. Why is this directed at me?