This just blew my mind. I never knew there was that initial burst of T with any Ester and always tested 2 hours post injection. I only knew of the peak 8-12 hours later. All my recent labs are bogus then. The most recent one I don't have the results for yet though was a true trough.
The true trough will give you the best results...be interesting to see the difference between this one and the others.
Looking at that first graph and knowing test cyp peaks 8-12 hours later after injection, should we be injecting at night when levels are supposed to be lowest, so the peak is in the morning on a daily protocol?
In theory, on a daily protocol using cypionate or enanthate the peaks and troughs are so close together that it shouldn't make a lot of difference. There is a guy on here who posts lab work with extraordinary variation in serum levels for using a long ester. But if his results are accurate he is quite unusual. Since I just made the graphic for another post, here is what daily injections might more typically look like—the X-axis is in days, and the right side is where steady state is nearly reached:
