Total tesoterone tests are worthless...

[GoneForever]

Spoke to the scientist who makes testosterone cypionate for the lab his hrt company runs today and asked a few ?'s. Found this interesing. He said that getting a total test bloodtest is not a good indicater for test levels. He said they dont even offer that when they do hrt follow up bloodwork. He said free test is the only test that should be given as it is 10x more accurate than total test. He said many patients will be on say "150mg cypionate" and their total test levels will be high and out of the range but their free test could still be low or normal, in which case more test should be added in the hrt regimen.

 

[Jarconis]

other than proviron, if you want something that is OTC that helps to unbind test, nettle root does a pretty good job, so does longjack.

 

[saudades]

Spoke to the scientist who makes testosterone cypionate for the lab his hrt company runs today and asked a few ?'s. Found this interesing. He said that getting a total test bloodtest is not a good indicater for test levels. He said they dont even offer that when they do hrt follow up bloodwork. He said free test is the only test that should be given as it is 10x more accurate than total test. He said many patients will be on say "150mg cypionate" and their total test levels will be high and out of the range but their free test could still be low or normal, in which case more test should be added in the hrt regimen.

I have often thought that that might be the case. I'm on HRT, and I've had some of my tests show high, but I don't think I had high free testosterone. And if I'm not mistaken, it is the free test that aromatizes to estrogen, right? I've done as much as 1 gm of test for a cycle without an anti-estrogen, and I have never had gyno. I can only suspect that my body is really effective at binding test. I'm going to have to go back and look at one of my test results--maybe I can argue for a higher dose on HRT.