Hoodlum
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First let me pre-emptively thank anyone who helps me out. The feedback and information I get from this forum is what is making my self-administration of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) possible.
So I just got my latest bloods back.
Total T was at 900ng/dL (range 220 - 905), taken 3 days after my last jab, so this is my trough level. I'm thinking I could aim to squeeze another couple hundred out of it? I feel ok as I am, but if there's a bit of wiggle room, obviously I'd rather have the additional benefit for muscle building and sex drive. This is running 240mg test cyp a week, split into 2 shots every 3.5 days. Most other guys report way higher total T levels with that much cyp, but it doesn't seem to affect me quite to the same extent.
E2 has come back at 58pg/mL (range 12 - 42. Doesn't say it's the sensitive assay - I assume not). This was after a reading of 18pg/mL a month ago.
About 10 days ago, I was feeling some symptoms of low E2 - sex drive had completely died. I was taking 0.25mg adex EOD, which I had been on since starting on gels (which obviously aromatise a lot), but had since switched solely to subq injections. Having read that subq jabs cause very little aromatisation, I figured I'd crashed my E2 with too much adex, so came off it altogether - I've not taken any for about a week now.
Seems like the subq jabs aromatise more than I realised, in my case at least. I think I'm going to try 0.25mg adex twice a week, as opposed to EOD - sound reasonable?
I've got no symptoms of high E2 currently, and my libido is actually currently pretty good. When I first started on the gels with no Aromatase inhibitor (AI), my E2 was up near 120 at one point, and I started getting early gyno symptoms - puffy nipples, etc. Seems like there's quite a bit of fine tuning needed to get the level dialled in to a good range.
Cheers guys
So I just got my latest bloods back.
Total T was at 900ng/dL (range 220 - 905), taken 3 days after my last jab, so this is my trough level. I'm thinking I could aim to squeeze another couple hundred out of it? I feel ok as I am, but if there's a bit of wiggle room, obviously I'd rather have the additional benefit for muscle building and sex drive. This is running 240mg test cyp a week, split into 2 shots every 3.5 days. Most other guys report way higher total T levels with that much cyp, but it doesn't seem to affect me quite to the same extent.
E2 has come back at 58pg/mL (range 12 - 42. Doesn't say it's the sensitive assay - I assume not). This was after a reading of 18pg/mL a month ago.
About 10 days ago, I was feeling some symptoms of low E2 - sex drive had completely died. I was taking 0.25mg adex EOD, which I had been on since starting on gels (which obviously aromatise a lot), but had since switched solely to subq injections. Having read that subq jabs cause very little aromatisation, I figured I'd crashed my E2 with too much adex, so came off it altogether - I've not taken any for about a week now.
Seems like the subq jabs aromatise more than I realised, in my case at least. I think I'm going to try 0.25mg adex twice a week, as opposed to EOD - sound reasonable?
I've got no symptoms of high E2 currently, and my libido is actually currently pretty good. When I first started on the gels with no Aromatase inhibitor (AI), my E2 was up near 120 at one point, and I started getting early gyno symptoms - puffy nipples, etc. Seems like there's quite a bit of fine tuning needed to get the level dialled in to a good range.
Cheers guys
t 1000 number. Also, note that the top of the normal range from you lab was 905. My lab's top of the normal range is something like 1130. 
