Androgel / Testogel / Tostran etc - how can they even work?

[krm]

Hi guys

without wanting to get into the gels vs. injectables discussion - plenty of threads on that here - there's one thing I don't understand.

A typical injection protocol seems to be around 100mg / week. (I assume people mean "effective dose" when they talk about it?)

For gels, it seems like a lot of people DO get results with 5 / 10g (50mg/100mg) and I've read several posts where gels brought people in the 900+ or or even 1000+ range.

Gels seem to be absorbed at a rate of around 10%, more or less.
So that would be 5mg/10mg daily - basically 35-70mg per week with this sort of protocol.

How can this bring levels up so high? this seems very little compared to the 100-200mg of injectables?

Thanks for explaining... I'm a bit confused.

Cheers

 

[CROM]

I used the 50 mg tube of gel per day. It would bring my total test from 160 to 325 for a short time during the day, then crash back down around 160. When I do .25 cc every other day of inject, my total test goes to 725. Some people would be in the 1000 range. Everyone is different.

 

[krm]

.25 per day would mean roughly 1cc per week - I assume that would be 250mg of ester with around 180mg of pure testosterone?

That would be 5 times the dose of the 5mg from tubes, then?

That would make sense to raise you to higher levels - still, my question remains - how can these lower doses bring people up so high....