@highpull on t-nation runs patients up to 200 mg per week, including himself. OP's doctor, as you point out, is not up to date or even competent. All she's likely concerned about is either her paranoid vision of getting sued for malpractice or being cited by her state's medical board.
Sadly that's what doctors do all day long, manage numbers on the monitors, you fall outside the numbers, you get a call and a plan of action. No thought process needed, it's lazy and the path to lease resistance.
No, she's out to lunch. The endocrine society guidelines state 75-100 mg weekly, but she has her head up her... She doesn't specialize in TRT and has no business prescribing it if her last suggested protocol is any indication.
She's even ignoring the guidelines.
Good info. Thanks
No recommendations at all for those atm
I injected 100mg on 1/30/23 and next 100mg will be 2/13/23.
A 600 trough is one thing, a 600 peak means levels may dip below 300 at trough.
I go for the T test on the morning before my next shot.
Yes.
Thank you.
IIRC, peak would be 200 to 300 points higher.
My apologies, I got mixed up.
So is this before your new protocol of doing 50 mg 2X weekly for a total weekly dose of 100 mg? There's still T in your system due to its half life.
I was originally doing 2x weekly 50mg for 7 weeks then had blood work done and T was at 941, my Dr then switched me to 100mg every 2 weeks (3 weeks ago) as she thought that was too high for a 58 year old.
Total estrogen isn’t as useful as simply checking estrogen. Total estrogens is all forms of estrogen, including weak estrogens.
The OP quoted doctor as wanting "4. Estradiol Level Total", so he was correct.
Total estrogens isn’t the same as testing estrogen (E2). Whenever I see estrogen and total grouped together, it’s a good bet we’re talking about Total estrogens testing.
