starting testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) need advice. please respond

[youngNDumb]

starting trt need advice. please respond

Starting TRT in 2 days ..I was prescribed 200 mg of testosterone cypionate a week..

My question to you all is should I split my dose up into two seperate injections a week like Monday and Friday? Or Monday and Saturday?

does this protocol sound like a good start?

Is this a high dose ?

 

[Megatron28]

Split it into two. Inject every 3.5 days. For example, Tuesday night and Saturday morning. Whatever days work best for your schedule.

100-200mg/week is a normal TRT dose.

Monitor your Estradiol. Take an Aromatase inhibitor (AI) if it gets too high.

Start getting in the habit of donating blood every 56 days to keep your hematocrit in range. Exogenous test increases it typically.

I hope you start feeling better soon! Keep us posted on your progress.

 

[corvettels3]

Your goal for trt is to use the least amount of test with no Aromatase inhibitor (AI). With that being said 200mg/wk is on the high side for trt. I can't tell you what to do, but if it were me I would either start at 100mg/wk or 50mg/every 3.5 days. I would then get retested in 6-8 weeks. I'm sure other guys will chime in..

 

[Megatron28]

How much do you weight Young & Dumb? and what would you say your Body Fat % is?

 

[youngNDumb]

My height is 6'1..225 lbs...bf is 17%

 

[Megatron28]

You're not a small guy. You may not need the strongest dose, but you can back down your levels are too high. Many docs like to have you start low and work your way up with the dose. Some go the other direction.

 

[Megatron28]

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[Alpin]

I would honestly start with less bro and work yourself up....
I don' know how long you have been hypogonadal...but it's quite a shock to your system to start with 200 mg/week in the beginning stages...
I'm bigger than you and I feel it's a bit much for me....
Good luck....hope it works out for you.

 

[jomamma007]

As stated above bud, I'd start with the lower dose. I don't really agree with dosing off a person weight either, as metabolism is going to be a greater factor. But if you did I believe it's divide your weight into kgs (divide by 2.2) then mutiply by .9.
(225/2.2) *.9=92mgs
I'm 6 feet 190 about 9% body fat and 200mgs put me at a 1700 test level range 248-1197. It also raise my estrogen sky high! At 100mgs per week, split into two 50mgs injections 84 hours a part I'm around 1000 test level without the need for an ai.
I'd start with 50mgs every 84 hours. at 17% 200mgs might aromatise a good bit for you as well.
START LOW, GO SLOW!