A 200 mg/mL at 1 mL = 200 mg injection, would likely put you over the top for most if not all of the week. The Endocrine society recommends 75-100 mg per week.
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Thank you very much for the information. I should have been more clear by saying the of product I would be using is Cypionate 200mg/ml, not that I would use a 1 ml dose 200mg/ml dose.
Thank you very much.
Would it be beneficial to divide the sub-q doses to Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The study did not divide it. They did the injection on Mondays 8:00 am. They noticed that the levels remained very stable for 5 days with a noticeable drop to "baseline levels" on the 7th day, however, they found that:
I should add that there's always a compromise between how stable you want your blood levels to be, and how frequently are you willing to inject.
Thank you.
I'm curious what your reasoning is for this. We had someone else here report excellent results with 200mg every 20 days I believe. I suspect there are a lot of unconventional protocols that have not been discovered or widely publicized that that seem "unnatural" but which work well for some people.
It all sounds wonderful until you pay attention to the details, only two injections into TRT.
To be clear, if you're injecting testosterone cypionate about every 10 days then your levels are neither steady nor normal. I assume you mean your trough measurements are pretty consistent at 700-750 ng/dL. If so then your peak levels may be well over 2,000 ng/dL, with the average over 1,200 ng/dL. No surprise here, as you are averaging 14 mg of testosterone per day, much more than the 6-7 mg that is typically produced by healthy young men. @tareload put together a useful dose-response chart here.
I used to inject daily, and it was a pain. Newer oral TRT options should eventually come down in price. I now dose orally twice daily, Jatenzo @ 237 mg.
Thanks to this great information website I learned many years ago that subcutaneous injections of testosterone is as effective as IM injections. I use Easy Touch 27 gauge needles and it fantastic vs IM
You might consider testosterone undecanoate. You could inject that every two weeks and still have much less variation in serum testosterone. The caveat is that totally steady testosterone is also somewhat unnatural. If that turned out to be a problem then you could even go with monthly injections. That would still be only one half-life — versus your current two half-lives — so you could maintain your levels in a physiological range while still seeing some variation.
As a quick-and-dirty estimate just assume that an injection interval of one half-life means the peak serum level is double the trough. Assuming normal SHBG — so that free testosterone is also reasonable — a decent monthly-injection protocol with testosterone undecanoate might have a peak serum T level of 1,000 ng/dL and a trough of 500 ng/dL. So no, you should not experience a crash if you obtain these results. The caveats: the half-life of T undecanoate varies depending on the carrier oil and individual; the long half life means that stabilization can take months; lowering the dose can lead to side effects that take time to resolve; test SHBG so that you can track free testosterone, which is more important than total.
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Determine what your weekly dose should be and then determine your preference. As described above, some may inject anywhere from once per week to once per day.
