HRV and stress score changed a lot after first shot on Tuesday

[JohnsonC]

I started TRT on Tuesday. Got my first 250 mg testosterone shot. I'm wearing a garmin vivoactive 3 that measures BPM, sleep, stress etc. around the clock. After the shot on Tuesday my stress score has rised very significantly. Usually it's around 25-35. On Wednesday it was 50 and today it have been 48 (it's evening in my timezone now). It has never been this high before. It's based on HRV data. The graphs also look very different. I usually have some rest throughout the day, but now it's almost high or medium stress all day. My days looks the same, I'm not doing something more stressful than usual. Blood pressure haven't changed - it's around 110/80. But I do feel more stressed/wired. My resting heart rate is a bit higher than usual, but only a bit. Any idea why this stress score shot up like this?

I know it's a high dose but they give it every other week and I'm pretty sure it's some kind of depot. It's literally the only TRT clinic in the country, so I will have to start with their way of doing things but can split it up into weekly doses as soon as I start self injecting at home which I can switch to whenever I want.

Any inputs highly appreciated. In the only study I could find HRV scores got better and not worse on short-term TRT.

 

[S1W]

Sounds like you already know the answer to your question - as you mentioned, 250mg is a large dose. Although I'm not familiar with the stress test device, high doses of test do seem to elevate heart rate and BP for a lot of guys.

You mentioned you can switch to self-injecting whenever you want. If I were you, I would do that ASAP and start with 50mg E3.5D (Monday AM and Thursday PM), for a total of 100mg/week, and go from there.

 

[fifty]

Sounds about right. That was my subjective experience on any dose: 80mg twice a week to 40mg mwf.