Much appreciated! I thought it seemed kinda high to start. I’m on my second week as of Thursday. Should I start 50 mg on Monday and again on Thursday? Haven’t noticed any improvements yet although I know it will be probably 3-4 weeks for that.
Start low and go slow is the best piece of advice.
More sensible to see how your body reacts to a lower dose of T when starting and what
TT/FT/e2 levels you will achieve let alone what impact such dose will have on your overall blood markers especially RBCs/hemoglobin/hematocrit.
When starting trt hormones will be in FLUX leading up until blood levels stabilize (4-6 weeks) and keep in mind that it can take 2-6 weeks for the hpta to shutdown.
You will most likely experience ups/downs during this transition and once blood levels stabilize it can take 2-3 months for the body to adapt to those new levels and during this time is when you should truly gauge how you feel overall regarding (mood/energy/libido/erectile function/body composition/recovery).
Get blood work done at 6 weeks and if you are still experiencing low-t symptoms than you may very well need a slight dose increase.
The main goal of trt is to replace physiological levels of testosterone through the use of exogenous T which will result in relief/improvement of low-t symptoms while at the same time minimizing/avoiding any potential side-effects and keeping blood markers in a healthy range.
On average most men on trt are injecting 100-150mg/week of T which would result in achieving healthy FT levels.
Some even do well injecting <100mg/week whereas others may need 150-200mg/week but even then 200mg/week is rarely needed by most to achieve a healthy FT level.
Although TT is important FT is what truly matters as it is the active unbound fraction of testosterone responsible for the beneficial effects.
Patience is key when first starting trt!
I was looking through some labs and feeling like I'm comparing apples to oranges and if so, how to interpret things. On a pre-TRT lab from Quest, the "Free Testosterone" reading is 51.3 pg/ml (range 35.0-155.0 pg/ml) On a post-TRT follow up lab from LabCorp, the "Free Tesosterone (Direct)"...
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