Adding to what
@Systemlord said, you're currently on 200 mg of testosterone cypionate per week. This averages to 20 mg of testosterone per day, which is about three times the average amount that a healthy young man makes naturally. Would you consider this advisable if it were any other hormone? High levels of testosterone can negatively affect more than 20 other hormones.
Unfortunately it's a very common experience, with many doctors succumbing to the more-is-better mentality. Ideally you should have been started on 75 mg TC split into 2-3 doses per week. You go up or down from there based on results, and few should need to exceed 100 mg/week.
As it is you may experience low-T symptoms as you reduce to more reasonable doses, and ideally drop the anastrozole. But it's worth doing to feel more normal, even if it takes some months to stabilize. If normal physiological doses alone don't resolve your issues then you may need to consider other options. Some guys find that adding low doses of hCG to the protocol helps. You can also consider switching over to short acting testosterone, which comes in the form of nasal gels and troches. These cause less disruption of your overall hormonal balance.
My collection of anecdotes where guys find lower dosing is better:
I’m a long term TRT patient, 39 years old. I’ve been on cypionate and inject a total of 154mg weekly in EOD subQ shots of 44mg each. I have been doing some thinking about the potential benefit of keeping dosing the same but experimenting with using a low cypionate base around 80-100mg weekly...
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I can’t really blame her. Most of what you read is of the mindset more is better. But here’s the approach I wish she would have taken, “Your test results reveal an 81 TT, let’s see what happens if we bring you up to 400.” Would have saved me those 8 years of countless blood donations, countless...
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I can't really blame her. Most of what you read is of the mindset more is better. But here’s the approach I wish she would have taken, “Your test results reveal an 81 TT, let’s see what happens if we bring you up to 400.” Would have saved me those 8 years of countless blood donations, countless nights of frustration for the wife, countless bouts of insomnia, and countless episodes of “dude, why is your face so red”.
I’m a long term TRT patient, 39 years old. I’ve been on cypionate and inject a total of 154mg weekly in EOD subQ shots of 44mg each. I have been doing some thinking about the potential benefit of keeping dosing the same but experimenting with using a low cypionate base around 80-100mg weekly...
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I’m a long term TRT patient, 39 years old. I’ve been on cypionate and inject a total of 154mg weekly in EOD subQ shots of 44mg each. I have been doing some thinking about the potential benefit of keeping dosing the same but experimenting with using a low cypionate base around 80-100mg weekly...
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Hi All. I'm 60yo, lucky with relatively few health problems so far. Total T 350-400. After about a year of research/consideration, about to start TRT, plan is just Test C, 150mg per week separated into two subq injections/week into delts/VGs, draw/inject using 29G 1ml. Get labs in ~8...
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Hi All. I'm 60yo, lucky with relatively few health problems so far. Total T 350-400. After about a year of research/consideration, about to start TRT, plan is just Test C, 150mg per week separated into two subq injections/week into delts/VGs, draw/inject using 29G 1ml. Get labs in ~8...
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My hematocrit was 0.55 with a normal range of 0.40 to 0.54. It is only slightly too high. My doctor didn't seem concerned about it. I'll post my full labs in the future. Very much appreciate your feedback. I'm also a bit confused how a dose of 120mg/week can have such a dramatic effect. It...
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Pray tell. What is the point of "telling" when you have already clearly developed a bias against anything I might say in this thread since initially disagreeing with you? All that's going to do is have you finding ways to misinterpret it in order to prove it wrong. When you feel like...
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I'm 68 and have chosen to pursue TRT primarily to treat fatigue, amongst other things. After a bad 3 1/2 month experience on gel (detailed elsewhere), I've finally convinced my endo to switch me to enanthate; my first injection was Saturday. Thanks to Madman for seeing me through that. The...
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I first started TRT with far too much for far too long 250mg of T Cyp/week. None of my symptoms (crippling fatigue, very low libido etc. improved) Browsing through the internet, I even tried Aromatase inhibitors incase high E conversion was preventing benefits, but that didn't work. When I...
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