Today my doc gave me 400mg cypionate injection at his office. He told me to come back after one month to see, how I hold it in my blood. i wanted to split into 100mg/week but he said that's how he starts first. He also told me to continue taking Anastrozole.
I will ask him next time if he will let me inject myself and split the dose in 100mg/week. if he does not agree I will find another doctor. I agree that's horrible protocol.
Today my doc gave me 400mg cypionate injection at his office. He told me to come back after one month to see, how I hold it in my blood. i wanted to split into 100mg/week but he said that's how he starts first. He also told me to continue taking Anastrozole.
Currently I am on Cypionate 100mg/week. This is my second week. Also taking Anastrozole.But I have not seen any improvement yet. my energy level improved but libido, sleep quality, mood and over all feeling well have not improved.
My SHBH was is 19 nmol/L and 14 nmol/L before taking Clomid or Cypionate.
I don't know if adding HCG will help me to improve my other symptom or not.
Instead of doing EOD injection, can I just up the dose to 140mg twice a week?With that SHBG, you’re most likely not going to feel any benefits when injecting once per week. I would imagine you would need to do daily, or EOD injections to feel the benefits of TRT.
Instead of doing EOD injection, can I just up the dose to 140mg twice a week?
Unfortunately that probably won’t do anything in your case. Increasing injection frequency is really the only option. You can probably do EOD injections though, if you don’t want to inject daily.
what about if I switch to daily Androgel, would that help? Currently I am using 23g 1" 3cc syringe needle to draw .5 cc weekly. Even .5cc seems very small amount in the syringe. I don't know how I am going to draw so little amount cc if I decide to inject EOD !
what size needle and syringe good to inject EOD? I don't think I can do with my current syringe.
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