Do you consider upping your doses based on ester?

[sp9]

Wondering this. I admit I was not really aware of the difference until lately.

So if I take 500mg of test e I am only really getting about 350mg of test, because the rest is ester (about 70mg per 100mg injected is actual testosterone)

Prop is like 86 mg per 100mg injected.

Suspension is 100mg per 100mg injected.

So when I do test e, and say it is 300mg per ml and I want 600 mg of test, if I shoot 2ml a week, I am only really getting about 420mg?

Should I bump the injection volume up to just under 3ml per week to compensate. Why only put in 2ml and get 420mg of test when I want 600mg?

Does any one adjust based on ester, kinda seems like a big deal when you are talking long esters.

[powerliftmike]

No need to adjust for the ester. Your body doesnt give a shit if it is receiving nice rounded numbers like 500mg or not.

[sp9]

No need to adjust for the ester. Your body doesnt give a shit if it is receiving nice rounded numbers like 500mg or not.

Really? But the difference between thinking you are doing 500mg of test and actually only 350mg seems like a big deal? Thanks for your input.

[Hard Head]

Damn bro, we must be mentally connected or sumthing. Amazing that we both posted the same question.....

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[velvetlion]

I kind of base everything on the test enanthate ester. Since that is the first one that I used, I kind of set the bar at that. If I am doing prop., I may do a little bit less and suspension definitely less. But when I think of 600 mg. of test, I think of it as 600 mg. test enanthate. Does that make sense?

[sp9]

Sure. I wonder when they do these studies where they say the administered 600mg of test cyp a week, if they actually put 600mg of test in the people's body or 420mg + the ester. Kinda throws me for a loop. That has got to be why people prefer shorter esters who want a higher blood concentration of test.

[oswaldosalcedo]

I kind of base everything on the test enanthate ester. Since that is the first one that I used, I kind of set the bar at that. If I am doing prop., I may do a little bit less and suspension definitely less. But when I think of 600 mg. of test, I think of it as 600 mg. test enanthate. Does that make sense?

no way, 100 mg test enanthate is 72 mg of test.

[velvetlion]

no way, 100 mg test enanthate is 72 mg of test.

Yeah, I realise that. But when I started I based my first cycle on 400 mg. test enanthate. My second cycle included 600 mg. of test enanthate. So when I set my doses, I base them on the results that I received from that.

For example: If I decided that I wanted to move my test up for my next cycle from 1000 to 1200mg./week, those doses would be based on me using test enanthate. You are correct test e is only 72mg. of test. So if I decided that I was using test suspension instead, I would probably only do 1000 mg. because I would round it up from the 866mg. of test in the test enanthate.

I am just saying that since test e was the first thing that I used, I base all other doses to some extent off what they would be accordingly with test e.

[oswaldosalcedo]

me too