What T levels won't increase HCT?

[Murdock]

Does anyone know what is a "safe" testosterone level to maintain that won't increase hct, or if it does only by very little? For example is 700ng/dl safe from hct increase?

 

[Vince]

When you increase your testosterone levels, by injecting testosterone, you’re going to increase your HCT. The less your levels increase, the less your HCT should increase. Over time , normally your Hct should stabilize.

My HCT have stabilized.

 

[GreenMachineX]

Keeping my levels between 500-600 has my HCT at 50. I do wish I could go higher, but not worth the risk.

 

[rayrock1]

Green Machine, How often are you injecting ? have you tried daily?

 

[TorontoTRT]

It’s very individual. Your case will be unique to you. In some like me no dosage or protocol lowers HTC. Nothing. I’ve had as high as 58 hematocrit with test levels between 500-1500.

 

[GreenMachineX]

Green Machine, How often are you injecting ? have you tried daily?

I’m doing 50mg twice per week. I haven’t tried daily, I don’t really get how it could be better. Doesn’t the trough (not peak) determine HCT/HGB?

 

[rayrock1]

I think its the range of the peak-trough that tends to increase the hemocrit levels. Thats why a lot of guys here inject daily to keep the levels flat lined and minimises the HCT increases. May want to ask vince or madman for opinion.

 

[TorontoTRT]

Daily injections increased my hematocrit even more.

 

[GreenMachineX]

Daily injections increased my hematocrit even more.

This is my concern.

 

[Vince]

I think its the range of the peak-trough that tends to increase the hemocrit levels. Thats why a lot of guys here inject daily to keep the levels flat lined and minimises the HCT increases. May want to ask vince or madman for opinion.

Yes, I inject daily. When I started daily, my HCT stabilized. It doesn’t work for everyone. So I really don’t know if it was from daily injections or just long-term trt.

 

[Cataceous]

Daily injections increased my hematocrit even more.

I've been promoting the hypothesis that a possible solution is to have relatively low daily troughs in serum testosterone to complement physiological-level peaks, thus imitating what nature does. This is accomplished via daily morning injections of both a short testosterone ester and a medium/long testosterone ester. The doses are adjusted to yield reasonable serum testosterone peaks of 600-800 ng/dL, and pre-injection troughs that are ~40% lower, e.g. 360-480 ng/dL. For guys with high or low SHBG it's better to consider free testosterone, such as what's calculated via Tru-T. By this method, middle-of-the-road free T is about 24 ng/dL, so this would be the targeted peak, and the targeted trough would be more like 15 ng/dL.

Alternatively, if a guy is convinced that he does best in all other regards at a certain testosterone level, then that level is made to be the daily peak, while dosing is adjusted to give a trough that's 40% lower.

 

[Deleted member 16042]

Daily injections increased my hematocrit even more.

What is your weekly dose?

 

[Match]

No meu caso, HCT sempre meio baixo, 40, mesmo com TF não tão ruim, 19 formula Tru-t.
Como aumentar sem aumentar T? Suplemento Ferro?