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Originally Posted by ironaddict69 how to you optimize that hormone?
marianco what dose do you put your patients on with trt? my dr just lowered me to 100 mg this week and i took a dive. i felt much better on 200 mg. he freaked out because my test was 2200, but it was because i spiked my dose to 800 mg a week for a while. it was stupid, lets not evne go there, but i feel like i need more than what he lowered me to. being as its only 64 actual miligrams of test due to the ester weight |
The starting dose for
testosterone cypionate or
testosterone enanthate injections is 100 mg/week.
Depending on the half-life of
testosterone, the dose is adjusted up or down.
The target is a total
testosterone of about 650 ng/dl, while attempting to keep the peak under 1000 ng/dl
One way to estimate the half-life of testosterone is to inject 200 mg of ester then measure the total testosterone about 4 days later. The total testosterone should be 1000 ng/dl - for T. enanthate. If it is about 600 ng/dl, then the half-life is about 3.5 days. The weekly dose would then be about 200 mg/week.
If the person has hypothyroidism, and thyroid hormone treatment is started, this will raise SHBG levels. This will then lengthen the half-life of testosterone and increase total testosterone level. A lower dose of Testoserone cypionate or enanthate is then needed to keep a person within the reference range.
A physician would freak out with a total testosterone of 2200 ng/dl. This takes the patient to unknown territory. The risks include hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, etc., etc.