TRT 180mg/week vs. 100mg/week

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Solid advice all around. I particularly agree with splitting the dose. With smaller doses you can get by with much less T and migrate to an insulin syringe with little or no need for estrogen control. Suggest you read the sticky on best practices in TRT. I also agree that Free T should be used as a guideline to adjusting the T dose.

Thanks, I'll check the sticky. I didn't think you could push oil through an insulin syringe.

[Youthful55guy]

Thanks, I'll check the sticky. I didn't think you could push oil through an insulin syringe.

I've been doing it for 7 years. A 50 mg dose of T-cyp (assuming 100 mg 2X per week) is 0.25 mL of 200 mg/mL T-cyp. With a 28G insulin syringe, I can draw up and inject that in about a minute.

The fallacy that you need a harpoon to inject T comes from 2 sources: 1) The old clinic protocols where they inject 100 to 200 mg in a single dose every 1 to 2 weeks, and 20 Anabolic steroid abuse, where they inject equally large (or larger) doses even more frequently. Yes, with those protocols, it would take a substantial amount of effort to draw up and inject. But when you change the volume paradigm, the needle size must also change.

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I've been doing it for 7 years. A 50 mg dose of T-cyp (assuming 100 mg 2X per week) is 0.25 mL of 200 mg/mL T-cyp. With a 28G insulin syringe, I can draw up and inject that in about a minute.

The fallacy that you need a harpoon to inject T comes from 2 sources: 1) The old clinic protocols where they inject 100 to 200 mg in a single dose every 1 to 2 weeks, and 20 Anabolic steroid abuse, where they inject equally large (or larger) doses even more frequently. Yes, with those protocols, it would take a substantial amount of effort to draw up and inject. But when you change the volume paradigm, the needle size must also change.

I see your point with regard to volume and frequency and will ask for the 28g insulin syringe next time. Been using mostly Henry Schein Syringe/Needle TB 1cc 25gx5/8" and they are excellent... drawing with an 18g or 20g for speed and to prevent use of a dull tip.