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A lot of good strategies here, but also quite a bit of "you shoulda known better, nah nah nah nah nah". Some things you just expect not to turn to shit, and I don't think that's unreasonable. It's not like he didn't insure his house and had a fire.

I'm 49 at trough. but I'm reading that levels fluctuate. Should I test at peak?

No apology necessary. Your reply to my post made me realize that I had been blase, and replying to you gave me a chance to qualify my remarks. When it comes to the search, self-discovery has been enlightening, but it hasn't brought about much in the way of change. But every person's situation...

I don't want to send the thread on a tangent, but I appreciate what you're saying so I'll address it. My situation isn't too bad. I'm not sexually-charged in general. For instance, I get nothing out of porn and don't have spontaneous erections at all. And if I had the most beautiful woman...

Wow, how many times can the OP reiterate that he has ED? LOL! Eh whatevs, my penis has been hit or miss for 30 years (mostly miss), and trt hasn't done anything for it. I have some kind of inhibition that came from childhood I think, but I don't even care enough to try to get to the bottom of...

More important than which assay you use is that you use the same one every time. Blood results go hand in hand with symptoms. Even if you're using a piss poor assay, if you feel good at XX, bad at XXX, and terrible at X, you can figure things out.

I've noticed that my total and free drop pretty drastically if I skip a week of pinning (cypionate). They'll go from 1200 to <500. Yet the last time I came off trt, some symptoms of low T didn't start until six-weeks-off at which time they hit me hard. Unfortunately I didn't test my levels for...

There is a school of thought about larger people needing a higher dose. I believe there are some threads here that debate it. Regardless, no one would ever suggest a dose that high, certainly not to start. Since you're pinning daily, there is no peak and no trough, so your lab results do not...

Mainly to spread out your dosage over time (e.g. instead of 150 once a week, inject 50 3x a week) and/or lower your dosage. I'm not a mod or trying to act like one, but you should post a new thread to get more in depth answers about your issue specifically. It'll be better for getting replies...

He might be well known and have the best intentions, but "well informed" doesn't seem accurate for someone who'd prescribe 1mg of adex eod right off the bat.

Trt for 467 at 26 seemed a little extra. You could've tried to get him to adjust this and that, and to try this supplement and try that food, and raise things naturally - all the things people try and usually get nowhere. You definitely made the right choice. Why make somebody suffer. He's...

Full disclosure, I have color vision issues. However I looked at your post again immediately after you told me about connecting the threads and I still could not discern any difference between the message and the link. Since then you have edited the post, and now that the link is on another line...

Ah yes, I didn't catch that. I should've known there was a method to the madness. The fact that links don't highlight has thrown me off before. Anyway, you deserve mod status...not sure if you want that responsibility, but you have my vote.

Four years, three months, 13 days? That's one helluva bump! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Any ideas on why they'd use different ranges for standard and sensitive? Whether sensitive is truly more accurate or not, why would they use a different range than standard, when both tests are supposedly telling us the same damn thing - our estradiol.

The results of my standard and sensitive were close, just like yours. Four point difference just like yours, though with mine it's the sensitive that is lower. My point is if the sensitive is the more accurate reading (and obviously there's some debate about that), it's certainly not worth the...

But the issue is the accuracy. And if you're using the standard result to confirm the accuracy of the sensitive result, that confirms the uselessness of the sensitive test.

My same day results: standard: 44.9 (7.6-42.6) sensitive: 41.0 (8-35)

Ah yes, the pitfalls of seven-day weeks. Damn Judeo-Christians!

As far as the first aspect, most doctors are behind the best minds here on this site, as well as the best minds on other T forums. For instance, my doctor (a urologist) thinks the lower the estradiol, the better off you are. (And I once texted him about "E2", and he didn't know that was...

Happily withdrawing for 33 years with no "slips".

If this were easier to understand, it would be sticky-must. Wait! I see swoops39. I've been on reddit enough to know that he loves dismissing questions. Whenever there's a question like "For everyone who takes 100mg a week, what's your total T", he always chimes in "Doesn't matter because...

When everything we're told is that different doses affect different people differently, why would any statistic at all ever be based on dosage? Doesn't make sense. Edit: Unless this fat-burning is not related to one's testosterone level.

"Hello Dr"? LOL

Anyone else notice a huge difference in pumps just from being on trt? Five minutes into a workout and I'm as engorged as I could ever get natty, and the pump just gets fuller and fuller as the workout continues.

@Cataceous should probably know a preferred range since he is a proponent of this test.

I've come across a number of posts lately where you mention free E2 in relation to low SHBG. So I guess the inverse must be true? Are high-SHBG guys' total E2 levels misleading exactly like their total T levels are, since large amounts of both their T and E2 are being bound to SHBG? So, in...

Correct, the old dosage was the equivalent of 126mg per 7 days.

Good point! We are pretty partial to 5's and 10's here in the west, but who knows. Maybe in one of those 'stan countries.

100% correct, but I'll add this because I think it's a little more relatable for the common man: .45ml of 100mg per ml = 45 mg; 45mg x 2 = 90mg per week .45ml of 200mg per ml = 90 mg; 90mg x 2 = 180mg per week Neither of those is 125mg per week.

Nothing to apologize for, my friend. Probably 50% of native English-speakers get bi and semi mixed up. Wow, that free T is really high for 100mg twice a week. And even though you're total T is high, the free is very high in reference to that too. I don't think I've ever seen free T that high...