Why is my free test so high?

[Quester]

Most of the information you will find about finasteride and athletic performance is anecdotal. So proof, no. Individual experience, yes, but you have to track that down.

Also, maybe consider that DHT is our primary androgenic hormone.

As far as staying on, that is your call. I had garbage luck with conventional doses, but have since microdosed finasteride (and am currently doing so) at 50mcgs per day. 50 MICROGRAMS is sufficient to cut DHT in half, which is typically enough to help with prostate and probably hair issues. Make your own liquid with 5mg of finasteride and 100ml of 80+ proof alcohol, like vodka or whiskey, to get 50mcg per ml if you want to go that route.

The microdosing thing is really interesting. My DHT has been way off, I am past the fina shedding stage having taken fina and Duta at separate intervlas. I was on Duta (.5mg) lately because I didn't have reg access to labs (no health insurance), urinary problems consistent with BPH and acne. I'm now off both and will be moving to 1mg fina (or less now that I think about this post) but I'll miss the protection against acne that Duta provides. I'll try .5mg instead of 1mg and will get my blood tested soon but it would be nice to microdose dutasteride rather than finasteride.
Interestingly, my blood test (Labcorp), while on .5mg duta per day, I saw Total T 794 (221-871) which was higher in range than my Free T 11.4 (6.8-21.5) in its range.
2024 (I'm too paranoid to be precise but it was recent)

[Cylon357]

The microdosing thing is really interesting. My DHT has been way off, I am past the fina shedding stage having taken fina and Duta at separate intervlas. I was on Duta (.5mg) lately because I didn't have reg access to labs (no health insurance), urinary problems consistent with BPH and acne. I'm now off both and will be moving to 1mg fina (or less now that I think about this post) but I'll miss the protection against acne that Duta provides. I'll try .5mg instead of 1mg and will get my blood tested soon but it would be nice to microdose dutasteride rather than finasteride.
Interestingly, my blood test (Labcorp), while on .5mg duta per day, I saw Total T 794 (221-871) which was higher in range than my Free T 11.4 (6.8-21.5) in its range.
2024 (I'm too paranoid to be precise but it was recent)

I have included a couple of images that illustrate the dose response curves of both finasteride and dutatsteride. It doesn't take much of either to get the job done, though microdosing dutasteride might be slightly more challenging. The dutasteride that I have is gel cap form. That is, if you cut open the cap, there is liquid inside. The 5mg fina I have is tablet form, so yeah it has fillers and binders but I can just drop it in 100ml of Wild Turkey 101 and in 24 to 36 hours I have a decent blend. It still has to be shaken up when dosed, but I really think that the finasteride itself blends well and the little bit of particles left are binders.

Dutasteride might actually be easier to mix since it is liquid, but my semi-OCD ass would be concerned about getting it ALL out of the gel cap. Plus, dutasteride has a much longer half life than finasteride, and I generally prefer to get these types of drugs in and out of my system ASAP.

Adding, yes, these two images are kind of flip flopped relative to each other in that one goes up, the other goes down, but they show the same type of data.