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I've only been on TRT for a while now, 125mg/week, and that is what I plan to stay on for life for health reasons (i.e. no more blasting). I had one set of blood work done for TRT last summer on 100mg per week and my results were
Total Test: ~560 (Range = 250-1100)
Free Test: 155 (Range = 35-155)
However, that was exactly 1 week after my last injection with a once weekly injection set-up. So I wanted to know what my levels were the day after my last injection, so I could get a better idea of where I am throughout the week. After being on 125mg/week for about 5 weeks (previously on 200mg/week for a 8 weeks) my levels the day after my last 125mg injection were
Total Test: 1486 (Range = 250-1100)
Free Test: 491.9 (Range = 35-155)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I would think the previous 200mg/week dosing would not have affected this much at all and it is fairly representative of what 125mg/wk gives me right after the injection. I am actually OK with my Total Test...probably means my weekly average is ~1100. However as we saw in my last years test my free test was much higher proportionally than my total test. And now this is seen even more with free test being 3.2x the upper normal limit. If my total levels were to be that proportionally high they would be close to 3500ng/dl...or what we would see with 500mg/week! Now I do not know if it is actually typical for free and total test to be completely proportional but I am sure this is not the norm.
My estradiol is 48 (Range <39), which is higher than I'd like as well and I think could explain a bit of the facial bloat I've been seeing despite still having more vascularity than I ever have at my current weight. One solution there could be dividing the injections into 2-3x/week instead of once weekly, according to what many report about that lowering estrogen levels, but this would likely only increase my Test levels further.
What do you guys think? Of course from a results standpoint I don't want to drop it down but from a health standpoint things seem a bit high.
Other relevant numbers:
Hb: 14.1 (great)
Hct: 44.7 (Good, would prefer a bit lower...might donate blood)
AST: 25 (good)
ALT: 65 (a little high....I think due to Asacol which I take for Crohns)
RDW: 17 (ALWAYS high I used to ignore this until I read that it's an even higher correlation to CVD than CRP)
HDL: 56 (good)
LDL: 112 (OK..would like it lower than 100)
Total Cholesterol: 185 (eh..)
hsCRP: 0.2 (great)
PSA: 0.4 (great)
DHT: 75 (very top of normal range here...proportionally lower than Test which is good but still higher than I'd like)
Any thoughts are appreciated. Trying to be as healthy as possible now but of course still trying to make any progress possible.
Thanks
Total Test: ~560 (Range = 250-1100)
Free Test: 155 (Range = 35-155)
However, that was exactly 1 week after my last injection with a once weekly injection set-up. So I wanted to know what my levels were the day after my last injection, so I could get a better idea of where I am throughout the week. After being on 125mg/week for about 5 weeks (previously on 200mg/week for a 8 weeks) my levels the day after my last 125mg injection were
Total Test: 1486 (Range = 250-1100)
Free Test: 491.9 (Range = 35-155)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I would think the previous 200mg/week dosing would not have affected this much at all and it is fairly representative of what 125mg/wk gives me right after the injection. I am actually OK with my Total Test...probably means my weekly average is ~1100. However as we saw in my last years test my free test was much higher proportionally than my total test. And now this is seen even more with free test being 3.2x the upper normal limit. If my total levels were to be that proportionally high they would be close to 3500ng/dl...or what we would see with 500mg/week! Now I do not know if it is actually typical for free and total test to be completely proportional but I am sure this is not the norm.
My estradiol is 48 (Range <39), which is higher than I'd like as well and I think could explain a bit of the facial bloat I've been seeing despite still having more vascularity than I ever have at my current weight. One solution there could be dividing the injections into 2-3x/week instead of once weekly, according to what many report about that lowering estrogen levels, but this would likely only increase my Test levels further.
What do you guys think? Of course from a results standpoint I don't want to drop it down but from a health standpoint things seem a bit high.
Other relevant numbers:
Hb: 14.1 (great)
Hct: 44.7 (Good, would prefer a bit lower...might donate blood)
AST: 25 (good)
ALT: 65 (a little high....I think due to Asacol which I take for Crohns)
RDW: 17 (ALWAYS high I used to ignore this until I read that it's an even higher correlation to CVD than CRP)
HDL: 56 (good)
LDL: 112 (OK..would like it lower than 100)
Total Cholesterol: 185 (eh..)
hsCRP: 0.2 (great)
PSA: 0.4 (great)
DHT: 75 (very top of normal range here...proportionally lower than Test which is good but still higher than I'd like)
Any thoughts are appreciated. Trying to be as healthy as possible now but of course still trying to make any progress possible.
Thanks