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<blockquote data-quote="Cataceous" data-source="post: 207377" data-attributes="member: 38109"><p>[USER=42943]@wig surf[/USER]: I'll also push for a lower dose: I think you should consider operating at a sensible, physiological level of testosterone for a significant period of time. If you're not satisfied with that then you might explore higher levels. The average healthy young male makes 6-7 mg of testosterone daily. You seem to be taking over 17 mg per day. Using two to three times normal T production is a prescription for side effects. You can cut your dose in half and still have above-average serum testosterone—and that's compared to guys in their 20s. Lowering the dose is often unpleasant, and can temporarily make you feel bad as your body adapts to more normal levels. Still, I think it's worth doing before committing to a long-term experiment on your body's tolerance of non-physiological levels.</p><p></p><p>As a practical matter, lowering the dose means you're less likely to need an AI, and it's good to try going without. You can get some indication of whether estradiol is relatively high by looking at its ratio to testosterone. A normal range is around 0.3-0.6%. Your measurements above give 0.22%. You should monitor your SHBG. When taken with total testosterone it gives you a way to calculate free testosterone, which is good to have as a backup even when using an accurate test to measure free testosterone. It's even more important to monitor free testosterone when SHBG is high or low.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cataceous, post: 207377, member: 38109"] [USER=42943]@wig surf[/USER]: I'll also push for a lower dose: I think you should consider operating at a sensible, physiological level of testosterone for a significant period of time. If you're not satisfied with that then you might explore higher levels. The average healthy young male makes 6-7 mg of testosterone daily. You seem to be taking over 17 mg per day. Using two to three times normal T production is a prescription for side effects. You can cut your dose in half and still have above-average serum testosterone—and that's compared to guys in their 20s. Lowering the dose is often unpleasant, and can temporarily make you feel bad as your body adapts to more normal levels. Still, I think it's worth doing before committing to a long-term experiment on your body's tolerance of non-physiological levels. As a practical matter, lowering the dose means you're less likely to need an AI, and it's good to try going without. You can get some indication of whether estradiol is relatively high by looking at its ratio to testosterone. A normal range is around 0.3-0.6%. Your measurements above give 0.22%. You should monitor your SHBG. When taken with total testosterone it gives you a way to calculate free testosterone, which is good to have as a backup even when using an accurate test to measure free testosterone. It's even more important to monitor free testosterone when SHBG is high or low. [/QUOTE]
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