Just Started TRT finally, any benefits to Enanthate vs Cypionate vice versa?

[northern2020]

Greetings Community

Recently approved for

test cypionate 100mg/week
HCG 500 IU 2x/week
DHEA oral 25mg daily
Arimidex 1mg - 1/2 tab once a week

any rational to using Enanthate vs Cypionate and vice versa?

Is this the low dose for Testosterone per week, what is the higher doses commonly seen, up to 200mg?

my labs will be reassessed in 8 weeks

heres my previous labs High SHGB and High a.m Testosterone with intermittent use of Nolvadex

Cheers !

so happy

 

[MarkM]

Not enough difference between Enanthate and Cypionate to make any real difference. Biggest difference is in how they are spelled.

100 mg is a good place to start. I would not be taking any anastrozole unless you have heavy symptoms of high estradiol. You have extremely high SHBG. What injection protocol are you going to be on? Might want to consider once weekly injections which would most likely best suit someone with high SHBG like you have.

 

[Systemlord]

Your starting dosage likely won't be high enough given your very high SHBG, I guess you have to start somewhere.

Starting out on an AI may be a mistake because SHBG is likely binding estrogen to SHBG and your have less free estrogen with very high SHBG.

 

[northern2020]

Thank you for the response.

I was going to run Mon/Thursday Injections, but thank you for the input.

The SHBG was high I'm assuming because I was running nolvadex as a post cycle therapy for 4 mos. Would like to see it come down.

Ill hold off the anatrazole for now.

 

[northern2020]

So if I was running Nolvadex for 4 weeks, with no Testosterone, my SHBG was high because it had scavenged estrogen? With no test in me, I had no clue SHBG would get that high.

 

[madman]

Thank you for the response.

I was going to run Mon/Thursday Injections, but thank you for the input.

The SHBG was high I'm assuming because I was running nolvadex as a post cycle therapy for 4 mos. Would like to see it come down.

Ill hold off the anatrazole for now.

From your previous thread:

intermittent use of testosterone for training since age 35 - no more than 500mgs x 8-12 weeks 4 times over 8 years.

Recently off Testosterone as of June 2018 and but have been using Nolvadex 10-20 mgs x 3 days per week since June.



Why would you jump into trt without truly knowing where your endogenous testosterone levels sit TT/FT as the Nolvadex usage would skew your SHBG results?

Now you have started a trt protocol based off your high SHBG.....hence lowish FT which could be due to the use of a SERM.

A Reappraisal of Testosterone’s Binding in Circulation: Physiological and Clinical Implications | Oxford Academic

 

[northern2020]

Had them tested yearly and the SHBG had been low, and am testosterone had been low range.

Just happened to get an appointment with MD and didn’t feel like waiting.

No doubts I’m low. But I get your point, baseline would have been better if waited a little longer and d/c Nolva

 

[northern2020]

I have also been on a Calorie restricted / strict intermittent fasting diet over the last 4 mos. total weight loss was 13 lbs which may have contributed to the high SHBG