and no longer convert it (or nearly as much) to E2.
Anytime one injects exogenous testosterone there will be an increase in its metabolites
e2/DHT.
My question is: how often should I do blood work to see if I can/should increase my dose?
6 weeks minimum.
My goal is to work up to 150mg/week if it feels good and the labs show everything is cool.
Why?
Forget about trying to work up to 150 mg/week as you may not even need to use such dose and do understand that when injecting once weekly whether using 100 mg/week or up to 150 mg/week that is a rather large does of T to inject and can easily result in high TT/FT/e2 levels.....let alone there will be a big difference between your peak/trough levels.
Splitting up T dose and injecting every 3.5 days as oppose to once weekly will result in more stable blood levels throughout the week and if it turns out that you are one with low SHBG than you may very well end up doing better injecting smaller doses of T more frequently as in EOD or even daily.
If anything it will come down to what TT does one need in order to achieve a healthy FT which would result in relief/improvement of low-T symptoms.
Ones SHBG levels will have a big impact on what dose of T/injection frequency is needed to achieve a healthy FT.
P.S If I could do it sooner I would, but I want to make sure my body has time to adjust properly.
What is the rush trt is not a race and anytime a protocol is tweaked whether increasing/decreasing T dose not only will levels be in FLUX during the weeks leading up to when blood levels have stabilized (6 weeks)..... but once levels have stabilized it will still take time for the body to adapt to the new T levels and I would give it a good 2-3 months before adjusting dose (unless you did not feel well overall due to T levels still being too low) so you can truly gauge how said dose of T truly effects your mood/energy/libido/erectile function
Too many men get caught up in how they feel during the first 6 weeks of a protocol change
when levels are in FLUX and end tweaking their protocol to often never truly knowing how said dose of T effects them overall.
