Personally I did regular blood tests during my experimentation, but I mostly tested just total T and E2, as this was enough to tell me what's going on, and to keep the costs of tests as low as possible.
TT means nothing without knowing where your FT level sits!
Again as I have been preaching on the forum over the years although TT is important to know FT is what truly matters as it is the active unbound fraction of T responsible for the positive effects!
Throw in the RBCs, hemoglobin and hematocrit too which are also critical blood markers that one needs to know when using exogenous T!
It was stressed in my reply to you how absurd your trough FT was on that whopping daily dose of TP you were injecting!
As you should very well know TP has more active T/mg.
Again to put this in perspective.
We can nitpick here on the approx free equivalents but you get the point!
25 mg TP (175 mg/week) is a whopping amount of active T (minus the ester).
175 mg TP (145.25 mg active T)/week would be the
equivalent of banging 207.5 mg TC (145.25 mg active T)/week.
This gets even more nuttier when you think about the daily production of a healthy young male which would be 5-7 mg T, 10 mg T daily top f**king end to boot which would be 70 mg T/week!
Your were banging 145.25 mg T/week or better yet 20.75 mg T daily!
Most men on TTh are injecting 100-200 mg TC or TE/week whether once weekly, twice-weekly (every 3.5 days), M/W/F, EOD or daily.
The majority of men can easily hit a healthy let alone high or in some cases absurdly high trough FT injecting 100-150 mg T/week especially when split into more frequent injections.
Yes there are outliers who may need the higher-end weekly dose 200 mg T/week but it is far from common as in RARE!
Such dose would be overkill for the majority.
Your trough FT was is in the 30s ng/dL which is absurdly high!
Again this is your trough (lowest point) 24 hrs post-injection as you were injecting a whopping 25 mg TP daily.
Again show me a healthy young male with low/lowish SHBG hitting a TT 1000+ ng/dL.....such does not exist!
Top it off that your peak TT/FT would have been sky-high due to the PK of TP.
You were clearly overmedicated here!
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