My endo has me doing 300mgs cyp every 4 weeks. They have me go to my doc for injection. What if i do that then 2weeks after that give myself 250mgs. Then when i have my blood draw for them just drop my shot. He also wants me to have blood draw 2weeks after my 3rd shot. Will my test levels be jacked after 14 days? I dont understand the half life. my understanding is it will elevate a few days after the pin then start droping and be gone with in the 14 days. I'am 220 6'3 29yo. Thanks in advance!!
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God, where do I start?
300mgs of Cyp over four weeks is a pretty good starting protocol - if it is injected in eight batches i.e. twice a week! It is a complete and utter disaster to have Cyp injected once every four weeks.
Insist on doing it yourself! Do not take "No" for an answer.
Cyp is the longest estered T available, with a half life of about 14 days. Which means that your levels will spike after about a week, then for the next three weeks they will drop so that by the time of the next shot they will be a quarter of the peak - at the most. How do you reckon anybody would feel on that roller-coaster?
Get them to prescribe Test E and inject it yourself. There is another huge advantage - injecting 0.5ml every three days (E3D) using a 25g needle in your delts is totally painless, quicker and easier than cleaning your teeth, creates no scar tissue, has no post injection pain - are you starting to get the picture?
As for your question: I recommend you try to find the minimum that you need, and go from there. Test E 0.5ml E3D is too much for me - levels of 1400, and I'm a big bastard! You may well get away with much less, which means less aromatisation too. Oh yes, I suppose your medical experts didn't tell you that a T roller-coaster is a great way to aromatise T to E. as a metter of fact they probably don't know that your E levels are . . .Hoh, they didn't check? Such a surprise!
Half life ain't hard. If its 1,000 on day 1 and it has a 14 day half life then it's 500 on day 14, 250 on day 28, 125 on day 42, 62.5 on day 56 and so on. If you re-inject on day 28 then you add that dose to the remaining dose from the first inject.
But the half-life is a guess and it isn't the same for everyone, and isn't the same for different injection volumes, or injection sites. An example: if you inject 2ml in one site (depot) if will be available more slowly than if you injected 4 x 0.5ml shots in four different sites.
The only reason you would consider a long ester is if you simply couldn't inject frequently.
300mgs of Cyp over four weeks is a pretty good starting protocol - if it is injected in eight batches i.e. twice a week! It is a complete and utter disaster to have Cyp injected once every four weeks.
Insist on doing it yourself! Do not take "No" for an answer.
Cyp is the longest estered T available, with a half life of about 14 days. Which means that your levels will spike after about a week, then for the next three weeks they will drop so that by the time of the next shot they will be a quarter of the peak - at the most. How do you reckon anybody would feel on that roller-coaster?
Get them to prescribe Test E and inject it yourself. There is another huge advantage - injecting 0.5ml every three days (E3D) using a 25g needle in your delts is totally painless, quicker and easier than cleaning your teeth, creates no scar tissue, has no post injection pain - are you starting to get the picture?
As for your question: I recommend you try to find the minimum that you need, and go from there. Test E 0.5ml E3D is too much for me - levels of 1400, and I'm a big bastard! You may well get away with much less, which means less aromatisation too. Oh yes, I suppose your medical experts didn't tell you that a T roller-coaster is a great way to aromatise T to E. as a metter of fact they probably don't know that your E levels are . . .Hoh, they didn't check? Such a surprise!
Half life ain't hard. If its 1,000 on day 1 and it has a 14 day half life then it's 500 on day 14, 250 on day 28, 125 on day 42, 62.5 on day 56 and so on. If you re-inject on day 28 then you add that dose to the remaining dose from the first inject.
But the half-life is a guess and it isn't the same for everyone, and isn't the same for different injection volumes, or injection sites. An example: if you inject 2ml in one site (depot) if will be available more slowly than if you injected 4 x 0.5ml shots in four different sites.
The only reason you would consider a long ester is if you simply couldn't inject frequently.
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Megatron28
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There was a recent posting (to an older posting) about where to get cheap labs done. Go get the labs done yourself as recommended in this posting and you will be able to meet with your doctors armed with some useful information that can be used to guide your treatment. Good luck!
steroidology.com/forum/testosterone-replacement-therapy/629018-blood-tests-questions-costs-tsh-question.html
