Hi all! First time posting here. I've been lurking on this topic for awhile, and decided to give it a shot, as it were. I started doing daily injections on Monday, Feb 20… I think around the same time Vince started.
I'm doing 20 mg daily. I'm only 11 days into this, but so far I love it. The injections are a breeze, so I've had no problems with compliance, and I feel great. Physically very solid and mentally so much more positive and focused than I was before. Water retention is less bothersome, and erectile function is more consistent. Libido has been slower to catch up, though I have been noticing some improvements there the past couple days. It's still too early to judge, really, so we'll see how it goes.
Most of the time I'm using 31g, 5/16" insulin needles. I do have some 29g 1/2" needles, but the 31g work just as well. Takes a little bit longer to draw, but it's not a big deal. For injection sites, I've been rotating my deltoids and quads. I notice my arms get a bit of leakage each time, just a tiny damp circle around the injection site, while my legs typically don't. Not sure why, but I'm not too worried about the leakage because it's such a tiny amount.
As CW warned, there was a period early on where I felt kind of hypogonadal… about four or five days into it, I think. Strength and stamina were absolute crap, but thankfully that only lasted a couple days. Judging from how good I feel now, I figure I must be well above a therapeutic level, although I reckon it will be another few weeks before my levels stabilize. At six weeks or so, I'll run some tests.
I decided to try this out for similar reasons as CoastWatcher's. I've always had issues with estradiol, and was never able to dial myself in using anastrozole. It was always either too little or too much. I tried twice-weekly injections for a long time, as well, but the e2 problems remained the same. Before I started this daily protocol, I'd been doing 140 mg of t-cyp weekly, using 25g 1" needles in my quads. On that old weekly protocol, total T was 1111 ng/dl and free T was 36 ng/dl (blood drawn one day after injecting), so it'll be interesting to see where I wind up now. E2, unfortunately, was completely tanked at the time thanks to my stupid anastrozole dosage. Never again!
I thank everyone for sharing their experiences here. Switching to insulin needles was a huge game changer for me, and this daily protocol might finally be the answer I've been looking for.
I'm doing 20 mg daily. I'm only 11 days into this, but so far I love it. The injections are a breeze, so I've had no problems with compliance, and I feel great. Physically very solid and mentally so much more positive and focused than I was before. Water retention is less bothersome, and erectile function is more consistent. Libido has been slower to catch up, though I have been noticing some improvements there the past couple days. It's still too early to judge, really, so we'll see how it goes.
Most of the time I'm using 31g, 5/16" insulin needles. I do have some 29g 1/2" needles, but the 31g work just as well. Takes a little bit longer to draw, but it's not a big deal. For injection sites, I've been rotating my deltoids and quads. I notice my arms get a bit of leakage each time, just a tiny damp circle around the injection site, while my legs typically don't. Not sure why, but I'm not too worried about the leakage because it's such a tiny amount.
As CW warned, there was a period early on where I felt kind of hypogonadal… about four or five days into it, I think. Strength and stamina were absolute crap, but thankfully that only lasted a couple days. Judging from how good I feel now, I figure I must be well above a therapeutic level, although I reckon it will be another few weeks before my levels stabilize. At six weeks or so, I'll run some tests.
I decided to try this out for similar reasons as CoastWatcher's. I've always had issues with estradiol, and was never able to dial myself in using anastrozole. It was always either too little or too much. I tried twice-weekly injections for a long time, as well, but the e2 problems remained the same. Before I started this daily protocol, I'd been doing 140 mg of t-cyp weekly, using 25g 1" needles in my quads. On that old weekly protocol, total T was 1111 ng/dl and free T was 36 ng/dl (blood drawn one day after injecting), so it'll be interesting to see where I wind up now. E2, unfortunately, was completely tanked at the time thanks to my stupid anastrozole dosage. Never again!
I thank everyone for sharing their experiences here. Switching to insulin needles was a huge game changer for me, and this daily protocol might finally be the answer I've been looking for.
