reducing T dose, how long to steady state?

blackebob · Mar 1, 2018

My doctor cut my T dose in half I was wondering if the same 6 weeks apply to reach steady-state or if you're going backwards does the time cut it in half and you arrive there in 3 weeks?

Not that it will change anything but now I'm worried we're going to go too far in the other direction.

CoastWatcher · Mar 1, 2018

blackebob said:
My doctor cut my T dose in half I was wondering if the same 6 weeks apply to reach steady-state or if you're going backwards does the time cut it in half and you arrive there in 3 weeks?

Give it six weeks to stabilize. That is a significant dose reduction.

Systemlord · Mar 1, 2018

When you make a change you reset the clock to another 6 weeks. Cutting dosage in half seems drastic which is concerning.

blackebob · Mar 1, 2018

Systemlord said:
When you make a change you reset the clock to another 6 weeks. Cutting dosage in half seems drastic which is concerning.

That's what I thought but I'm trying to stick with the program.

Vince Carter · Mar 1, 2018

cutting by half might as well be starting all over again it's that severe.

Vince Carter · Mar 1, 2018

blackebob said:
That's what I thought but I'm trying to stick with the program.

On second thought you've been with us a real long time....what's going with you that this happened?

pistolero · Mar 1, 2018

Halving the dose all at once? Sounds harsh. What is the reasoning for this?

blackebob · Mar 1, 2018

I switched to inj end of the year, I was on cream 350mg each day. T was 1050 on switch everything in range, no AI, HCT 50, ....

Inj' 100mg CYP E3.5, start Hcg 300iu EOD, and at 6 week blood test showed T 1532, HCT 53(donated week before test), "wrong" E test 62, both liver(LST...) just outside top of range, SBHG 26. So she wanted to drop it to 50mg E3.5, and I relinquished.

I swear, at three/four weeks after starting injections I think I hit my sweet spot, and then I over shot it. I was solid. Funny thing is a week and a half into the new dose I thought I hit it again, and now I think I dropped plumb out of it. I thought cutting it in half was a lot. I have three weeks to go til I hit week 6, or take control myself moving it back to 75mg E3.5

I am toying for the last three weeks of changing it to 50mg/wk on an everyday protocol at 7.142857142857143mg injected per day +/- the last digit.

I mean at mid point what will it gain me to jump it back up? I can already tell the the morning wood difference, and just when I thought I had passed the gut bloat, its back.

#$%$#@!!!