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You're basically stating all over as far as dialing in your dosage/injection frequency. The strategy is experimentation to see what works best for you. This dialing in on cypionate could take 3-6 months.

I used to be on oral T, way better than injections. https://www.excelmale.com/threads/my-experience-on-jatenzo-oral-trt-log.23595/

4-6 hours is fine.

You didn't seek out TRT for low numbers, you sought treatment for symptoms. Let's say SHBG is a transport molecule and that it activates T on receptor sites. You don't want to inject twice weekly or daily, so this is your position. It's 2025, Google is your friend...

You need to get your FT to the top end of the ranges or higher! You may need to seek private care through a TRT clinic to get proper treatment. The calculated FT can be off by as much as 40%! Balance My Hormones in Dorset. They offer TRT across Europe.

You're waiting 3 months to do lab work and starting out on too low a dose. Steady states are achieved in 7 days, at which time levels are checked and adjusted. The recommended starting dosage is 200-237 mg twice daily. I was able to achieve a 900+ at peak, 500 at 6 hours consistently at 237 mg...

Biotin supplements or lab error.

A ferritin blood test shows ferritin levels. It’s well known that hCG can negatively affect libido.

Welcome to ExcelMale. Some men are able to boost energy, physical and mental performance without the need for TRT. Cutting out the standard western diet (ultra processed foods) is a good place to start!

It's about time!

So changing SHBG levels and therefore a decrease in TT isn’t a biological change?

Testosterone can increase norepinephrine released from kidneys. So if you’re overdosed on TRT/hCG or you choose a half-life where hormones are consistently elevated, having less fluctuations, are sensitive to hormones in general, this can have an effect of overstimulation and therefore affect...

Your metabolism changes, day to day, month to month. Days are shorter in the Fall and Winter months. Your thyroid hormones are slightly higher in the winter months to regulate body temp. Your body is always trying to regulate itself. You should also note that the FDA allows deviation of...

HCG can cause sexual issues and can create an imbalance of many different hormones.

The factor you never considered, your biology changed and so did your response to TRT.

Finish the vial, you'll be fine.

Maybe there is a hormone imbalance during waking hours that does exists when sleeping.

Theses protocols are ancient and stupid. These protocols see higher rates of erythrocytosis and don't maintain consistent hormones throughout the two week injection interval (works great for a smaller minority of men) and any doctor still prescribing these protocols is out to lunch! The...

There's always oral TRT, Jatenzo and Kyzatrex gel capsules taken twice daily. The oral TRT route makes dialing in less about finding the optimal injection frequency and solely about getting the dosage right. Steady states in 7 days, compared to 4-6 weeks as with injections, makes dialing in...

You need a reality check! There are no natural men walking around with a TT at 1300, in the absence of abnormally high SHBG, with estrogen <29! The estrogen ranges, which vary greatly between lab companies, are derived from men with TT below 500 and not men on TRT with optimized T.

This may help explain some things, alcohol can increase estrogen. Estrogen helps with sleep. Some men have bottomed out estrogen on TRT and need hCG together with TRT.

The cream is maxed out, you reached steady states in 1 week on the cream. When you first started the cream, your T was higher than it is now because of the doubling or stacking of the cypionate. When I first started Jatenzo, I had only just stopped the cypionate, I was stacking the two and T...

That's not a good sign. You should already be seeing benefits. Your T levels must be declining. You should consider oral T, Jatenzo, Kyzatrex.

You did it wrong, no wonder your results are low. Back to square one, retest between 4-6 hours after application. Your TT and FT levels will rise within 2 hours after application and decline quickly. I was on oral T and half-life is identical to topical T. I would peak at 1052 ng/dL 2 hours...

TRT isn't working if you tested between 4-6 hours after dosing. TRT will be working when your TT and FT are near the top end or above the ranges. It may be time for injections injected weekly or twice weekly or oral T Jatenzo or Kyzatrex. If your urologist suggests injections every 2 weeks...

It can vary, depending on your needs. Once you're dialed in on therapy, costs will drop. It's been awhile since I used a private clinic or had the need for one. I've had more problems than anyone here. I fixed my issues on the carnivore diet. Oral T, Jatenzo, Kyzatrex will make dialing in...

Your doctor not wanting to talk about your testosterone panel, huge red flag! Your doctor is using the Direct FT method, often inaccurate and overestimating FT results, the equilibrium dialysis method being the most accurate method or even the calculated method. If your doctor had tested SHBG...

TRT will suppress the SHBG further. Androgens suppress SHBG. Low thyroid hormone (fT3, fT4 & high TSH) would cause low SHBG. Type 2 diabetes would also cause low SHBG. Not so fast, what method was used to measure the FT?

Sometimes it take awhile for one to feel the effects of low E2.

I have a saying, you're the architect of your own destruction. Zinc is a natural inhibitor of aromatase. As far as the zinc dose not being enough to lower estrogen, depends on your individual biology. You have men out there that can take a 1-2 mg of aromatase inhibitors and it barely moves the...

I don't see why you can't do two different doses morning and night. 400 mg morning, 200 mg nightly.