DHB and testosterone bloodwork?

cracker backer · May 28, 2020

maybe this is a dumb question..... I feel like I should know the answer as long as I've been doing this....

will DHB show up as normal testosterone during blood testing? I'm just wondering if the DHB being 1-test cyp might chemically show up as testosterone in a blood panel? So if I have my yearly blood draw for my scripted testosterone therapy will DHB cause my levels to come back super high? Maybe I'm overthinking it?

cmryan · May 28, 2020

cracker backer said:
maybe this is a dumb question..... I feel like I should know the answer as long as I've been doing this....

will DHB show up as normal testosterone during blood testing? I'm just wondering if the DHB being 1-test cyp might chemically show up as testosterone in a blood panel? So if I have my yearly blood draw for my scripted testosterone therapy will DHB cause my levels to come back super high? Maybe I'm overthinking it?

I really, really don't think so. Yes it is "1-testosterone" but everything is based off the testosterone base molecule to a degree. If you're super concerned you could get a test a few weeks before your annual for your TRT and have enough time to assess how to proceed.

fasterthenyoo · May 28, 2020

the real name is dihydroboldenone. there was some strange reason for the 1-test cyp naming but I don't recall exactly what that was.

edit- something else I found - you can think of it as a dihydrotestosterone (DHT) version of equipoise. in no way is DHB testosterone