It’s not that simple as comparing mgs/day produced naturally vs injectable. For one thing, the ester reduces the amount of actual testosterone by 30 percent - this is fact. Men taking 100 mg of test cyp are really getting 70 mgs of actual testosterone. Also otjer things come into play such as the amount of albumin and shbg a person has, which binds up the testosterone and reduces the actual affinity. I’ve seen plenty of guys with high shbg that need 200 mg of testosterone per week and that onLu gets them into the mid 500s ng/dl while other lower end shbg guys will be in the 900s at half the dose. This is why many knowledgeable doctors add androgens to the protocol to lower shbg.
the OPs dose is fine for someone who experiences a lot of pain. Check out a YouTube video by dr Carlson who was a cardiologist in Florida who put people on 1cc of testosterone and nandrolone (that’s 200 mg of both) for the first month and then titrated the amount down.
Lastly, steroid doses are not calculated based on any “more times anabolic“ theories. It doesn’t work like that for any medicine. Nandrolone is 3 times more anabolic than testosterone but that does not mean someone taking 100mg of nandrolone is like taking 300mg of testosterone- at least in terms of negative effects. for example - I’m on 5 mg of Crestor, a statin, which is twice as potent as Lipitor - so yes, the effect is like taking 10 mg of Lipitor,but side effects are reduced from taking the lower dose. That’s why someone can take a therapeutic dose of nandrolone and still get many benefits which a good safety profile.
