re: Need Info on TRT

i cant do subq because i get welps and bruises now, used to not, but do now. So i rotate the test shots between 2 spots on the quads, the glutes, the ventri glute and sometimes shoulders but that is rare as I get PIP there.

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My immediate guess is that you have higher estrogen right now. This first few months of TRT is is kind of a “test” and hopefully your provider will get you dialed in. Are you injecting Testosterone? How much? How often?

Are you taking any other supplements or prescriptions?

Make sure boron is in the morning

Prolly estrogen levels little higher but the being hot indicates high metabolism so enjoy it

For all yall doing IM injections, always aspirate (pull back on the plunger) before you inject. Just to make sure you are not in a vein. If yer in a vein you'll know it when you aspirate because there will be mucho blood-o in the syringe-o. If yer just in the muscle, you'll get a slight pink tinge maybe, but usually nothing and you'll feel resistance as you try to pull back(usually). If yer in a vein you'll have little to no resistance and again ..mucho blood-o. Don't inject yer test intravenously, I'm pretty sure it won't be optimal for your therapeutic goals.

I don’t think I’ve aspirated an IM injection once in my 18 years of nursing. Stick it n rip it

(Sorry for the novel, I'm trapped at the airport in Tokyo bored outta my mind. Just wanna firmly insert needles into human flesh and take their blood out, I'm a nurse, its what i do!)

Not surprised at all to hear you say that Uncle. I've been a nurse about the same amount of time and I always aspirate. But I don't think I've ever received an IM injection by anyone (all who were lnurses) that aspirated. So it's probably more common practice not to aspirate, but I feel differently about the matter.

I also can't speak to what is currently being taught to "medical professionals" because I graduated from nursing school 20 years ago, I was taught to aspirate then. None of the continuing education I've done since or the facility policies I've reviewed covering IM injections have NOT included aspiration as one of the steps. So I continue to aspirate.

However, I've worked at dozens of hospitals in several different states and I'm never surprised to run into a place where everything is different. I've seen things in Los Angeles that would be called malpractice in Texas, and vice versa. But nobody is wrong, there's just different ways to do things. Different equipment, methods, policies, beliefs, etc. I've never practiced in Louisiana or anywhere in the south(pay rates are shite, patient population sounds horrible)!, so maybe yall do it differently down there, I will continue to aspirate and I recommend everyone else do the same. But I'm not gonna force my ways on others, just recommend.

I'm kinda a hardass about tiny things, lots of them are meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but I have my beliefs about things that are "best practice" and I do them because I believe they lead to better outcomes.

I feel a little better but I find myself feeling fatigued about 1-2 days before my next dosage

I feel more dialed in after this increase however

I’m an occupational therapist by trade, I interact with tons of rude patients especially their families