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Yeah, so, I doubled my dose. I definitely was making this more complicated than it should be. Guess I’m in for an uncomfortable night like the other times I’ve tried to increase dose too far.

If I’m doing 8mg daily, I know that’s 4 ticks on the 100 unit syringe. How many ticks is that on the 50 unit syringe? I’m pretty sure I just gave myself a double dose by accident.

A Right, but what I’m asking is…let’s say I have less water and feel better on test prop, but I still get stuck between 2 doses…1 gives higher BP and less thick blood, the other gives thicker blood but lower BP. Which would you do? This isn’t about how I feel or how I look; it’s about blood...

Right, and my resting BP average is between 130-140/80 with the lower dose resulting in lower e2, or 115-130/75 or so with a higher dose and higher e2, but results in a HGB of 18.5 and HCT of 54. Those are months on average also.

I have a great one and years of religiously and obsessively checking it, I’m very well aware of its fluctuations, peaks and valleys. You can trust those blood pressures I’ve mentioned.

Yes, they fluctuate, and when my e2 is lower, they the lowest it gets is still higher.

Right, but which scenario would you prefer out of the two if none of those suggestions turn out well either?

Brother than that, let’s say it doesn’t work…would you rather have thicker blood, or a mildly high BP?

Those BPs are pretty well established; I have a monitor.

Nope, no caffeine.

A doctor can prescribe that too?

DHEA has consistently made me feel worse and more bloated, even though my levels are low. Doesn’t seem to matter the type either. I’m sure at night my BP goes down to more acceptable levels because if I take long enough in the middle of the day to relax I can get it to 120’s over 70’s. I’m on...

Curious to what @Nelson Vergel would think strictly from a longevity view point.

So you’d rather have slightly higher BP with less thick blood basically? I wonder what the long term trade off is viewing from the longevity lens only.

The differences are 7mg vs. just over 8mg, but I wasn’t careful on the 7mg strictly subq or shallow IM. The 8mg daily was pretty steady shallow IM 2 days, subq 1 day, repeat, except I did add quad shots the past 12 weeks. Right now, I’m doing 7mg alternating between shallow IM and subq every...

I’m curious about this too.

After years of playing around with different test cyp doses and such, daily seems to be the best for me. But, I’m at a crossroads. Would you rather have…using Quest’s best labs… HCT 54% Free Testosterone 150 pg/mL Ultrasensitive E2 30 pg/mL Blood Pressure 125/80 Or… HCT 50% Free Testosterone...

What is “severely elevated HCT”?

Where are you seeing these guys above 55? I recently tested again at 54.3, but didn’t get the results for 2 weeks after so I could be even higher now. So frustrating, and this is from 8mg test cyp shallow IM daily.

lol You’re right, sorry man… (Brace for impact…)

You weigh 218 at less than 10% BF???

What was your free T at 25mg daily? That’s getting into low dose cycle isn’t it?

I’m one of those that more isn’t better. 10mg IM daily had me just over the range, but 7mg subq daily had me getting close to the bottom of the range. 8mg daily IM seems to be best for me, although water retention is a bit high for my liking still. I should also say the 10mg daily IM made my...

How high of an elevation are we talking? I’ve been taking 1mg per week injection for a year and my levels are still only 750.

Update?

I’m one of those in the first example. SC is notably worse than shallow IM for my daily protocol. My free T was actually it in half by using SC and I could tell by every sleepless night something was wrong. My E2 was normal though, so I couldn’t tell what was wrong exactly until I had the...

I switched to daily injection which allow me to increase my free test levels while hemoglobin and hematocrit stayed lower. 8mg per day test cyp at night.

Since switching to daily shots and assigning even higher free test levels, hematocrit and hemoglobin haven’t been an issue.

Are you still on 8mg daily? How’s that going?

Update here: ever since getting my e2 up to mid20’s to 30’s, my blood pressure is always about 120/80. No white coat syndrome anymore. Whereas e2 at 17 was a problem.