Has anyone experimented and had any success with pulsing your testosterone dose.
Example would be every day injections but one day is double the dose? 10mg today but 20mg tomorrow and repeat daily alternating between doses? I imagine the testosterone levels would be similar at end of week, but I need hematocrit and hemoglobin to be more stable as it’s quickly out of range even at 140 a week split evenly every day injections.
20 mg T daily (140 mg T) week is still a fairly high weekly dose of T and although a frequent injection protocol will have a huge impact on clipping the peak--->trough and result in more stable blood levels throughout the week it can still easily drive up the hematocrit if your steady-state as in 24/7 FT level is too high.
Such dose can easily still have ones steady-state FT level too high!
* While the precise mechanism underlying secondary polycythemia in the setting of TTh is still debated, it is likely that a longer duration of supraphysiological testosterone levels drives erythrocytosis.
It is far from a given that injecting daily will bring down the hematocrit.
As I stated in my reply from another thread.
Yes injecting daily in the hopes of bringing down the hematocrit or estradiol can work for some but it is far from a given as many men still end up running too high a trough/steady-state FT on dailies.
Keep in mind it is not just the high peaks/peak--->trough that drives up the hematocrit.
Running too high a trough/steady-state FT will play a big role here.
Switching from twice-weekly to dailies will clip the peak--->trough and the difference between the peak/trough would be minimal, blood levels will be very stable throughout the week but if you still end up hitting a high steady-state FT it can still have a big impact on elevating the hematocrit let alone estradiol.
Many tend to lower the weekly dose when switching to dailies otherwise they may still end up hitting too high a steady-state FT.
Even though you are not increasing your weekly dose and you will be clipping your peak--->trough, blood levels will be more stable throughout the week the same weekly dose split into dailies may still have your steady-state FT level too high.
The two formulation with the least impact on driving up hematocrit would be nasal T gel (Natesto) or any of the newer oral TU formulations (Jatenzo, Tlando or Kyzatrex).
When it comes to elevated hematocrit everyone is still so caught up on peak T levels!
As I have been preaching for years on here running too high a trough/steady-state FT will have a big impact here!
* While the precise mechanism underlying secondary polycythemia in the setting of TTh is still debated, it is likely that a longer duration of supraphysiological testosterone levels drives erythrocytosis.
* Testosterone undecanoate (TU), developed in the 1970s, provided a solution by utilizing lymphatic absorption to bypass hepatic metabolism. The...
