Is 100mg Test-C per week a decent dose for HRT?

[HRTstudent]

I think its smart for men to consider going from once a week injects to twice a week injects before upping the dose.

with that said, 100mg is a fair starting dose in that it's likely "enough" but probably it is more along the lines that it is convenient. it's easy to get someone started injecting (who probably never did so before) by telling them to inject half a CC per week. a lot less people are going to fail that math...

last I heard Dr. Crisler was starting to begin new patients around 80mg per week.

[adam1973]

I think its smart for men to consider going from once a week injects to twice a week injects before upping the dose.

with that said, 100mg is a fair starting dose in that it's likely "enough" but probably it is more along the lines that it is convenient. it's easy to get someone started injecting (who probably never did so before) by telling them to inject half a CC per week. a lot less people are going to fail that math...

last I heard Dr. Crisler was starting to begin new patients around 80mg per week.

Well for me its easy because each bottle of the 200mg Depo Test-C only contains 1mL of the drug. So I can only get two doses out of a bottle. Plus the Dr's assistant showed me exactly how much to draw into the syringe as well as where in the butt to shoot.

My main concern is that my Doc wants to see me back in 8 weeks (with no blood tests) to see how I feel. If I tell him I feel great and he does a blood test and my testosterone levels are the same as pre-treatment that he will cut me off. My previous test showed a dismal 280 for total testosterone and free testosterone was also very low.

[HRTstudent]

Well for me its easy because each bottle of the 200mg Depo Test-C only contains 1mL of the drug. So I can only get two doses out of a bottle. Plus the Dr's assistant showed me exactly how much to draw into the syringe as well as where in the butt to shoot.

My main concern is that my Doc wants to see me back in 8 weeks (with no blood tests) to see how I feel. If I tell him I feel great and he does a blood test and my testosterone levels are the same as pre-treatment that he will cut me off. My previous test showed a dismal 280 for total testosterone and free testosterone was also very low.

you won't have the same T levels as before now that you're on 100mg of T per week. you can take that to the bank. even a fast metabolizer doing 1 shot per week would probably have a trough in the 300-400's. but that doesn't mean that person is "living" at a t level of 400... it means the lowest they ever get is 400 and that represents a minority of their time.

[johnhenry]

HRT - hope it's ok to ask a question here - I get a bit confused with the terminology - would that be 80mg test/wk or 80mg t-cyp x 72% = 58mg of actual T? J.
I noted a comment todat that good trt docs start at 0.8mg/kg body wt. For me that would be 77 x 0.8 = 62mgT/wk. I have started at 70 mgT/wk so pretty close.

[phaedo]

HRT - hope it's ok to ask a question here - I get a bit confused with the terminology - would that be 80mg test/wk or 80mg t-cyp x 72% = 58mg of actual T? J.
I noted a comment todat that good trt docs start at 0.8mg/kg body wt. For me that would be 77 x 0.8 = 62mgT/wk. I have started at 70 mgT/wk so pretty close.

When someone says "80 mg of testosterone per week" they're referring to the total weight of the testosterone molecule AND the ester. So, they're injecting 80 mg of the solution as prescribed by the physician and as found in the medication. You're "right" in the sense that 80 mg is not 80 mg of pure testosterone, however, since the ester is the same all around (cypionate is cypionate), the ratio is the same and is a moot point to calculate "actual T."

I've tried all sorts of dosing and frequency. When I was not on hCG, a 100 mg of testosterone per week put my peak as 860 ng/dL and trough as 690 ng/dL.