Skipped 3 pins and felt great

Tylurnt

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Ive been having hard time dialing in. Started out 2x a week shots 150mg and then EOD injections of 22-30mg. More recently tried 30mg and made me a little worse. Got tested before I skipped the doses...Total T 605, e2 47 (high) and free T direct 31 (high). SHGB is always low...this time 9.7. DHT always low also at 31 this time. HCT and hemoglobin were slightly elevated and so was my iron, had been supplementing cause i was low last test. Quit supplementing of course

I took 4 or 5 days off injections and felt sooo much better. But then went down to 20mg EOD and slowly started to feel like shit again!!! And The past 6 days I have done 10mg every day with no improvement.

Trying to figure out why I felt so good when I skipped my dosing, yet lowering the dose by 33% made me feel like shit again. Should I go lower? Just feeling very discouraged cause im stuck on TRT and have not felt good on it for more than a few days at a time.
 
Ive been having hard time dialing in. Started out 2x a week shots 150mg and then EOD injections of 22-30mg. More recently tried 30mg and made me a little worse. Got tested before I skipped the doses...Total T 605, e2 47 (high) and free T direct 31 (high). SHGB is always low...this time 9.7. DHT always low also at 31 this time. HCT and hemoglobin were slightly elevated and so was my iron, had been supplementing cause i was low last test. Quit supplementing of course

I took 4 or 5 days off injections and felt sooo much better. But then went down to 20mg EOD and slowly started to feel like shit again!!! And The past 6 days I have done 10mg every day with no improvement.

Trying to figure out why I felt so good when I skipped my dosing, yet lowering the dose by 33% made me feel like shit again. Should I go lower? Just feeling very discouraged cause im stuck on TRT and have not felt good on it for more than a few days at a time.
There are many points of view on this topic, but my two cents is to try going without pinning for as long as you can and then when symptoms reappear, inject a low-moderate dose and repeat the process. T is (among other things) a signaling molecule and some people may do better at much longer intervals that theory would suggest is optimal. We've had reports of that here before. What do you mean by saying you're stuck on TRT? What else is in your protocol? What are your exact symptoms of feeling worse?
 

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Lakshman KM, Kaplan B, Travison TG, Basaria S, Knapp PE, Singh AB, LaValley MP, Mazer NA, Bhasin S. The effects of injected testosterone dose and age on the conversion of testosterone to estradiol and dihydrotestosterone in young and older men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2010 Aug;95(8):3955-64.

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