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Trying to find my optimal TRT/cruise dose of Testosterone that allows healthy strength/sex drive and doesn't require E control (sensitive to sides, and want to see which dose I don't need AI). At 200mg test enanthate per week, I get some gyno symptoms and a bit of acne with so-so sex drive. So, I titrated down.
First Check:
I was using 160mg/w enanthate and 20mg/d tamoxifen to reduce gyno tissue in the nips from said 200mg trial. I wanted to see where this much T would put my levels. Results:
Estradiol - 50pg/ml
Free T - 328.8 pg/mL
Total T - 953 ng/dl
I wanted to kick the Estradiol down a few more points so I could reach ~30, so next I tried 115mg test per week (80mg every 5 days). At this point, I had been off of the tamoxifen for a month and on the 115mg for a month. I thought this would be enough time for accurate measurements but wtf?
Estradiol - 70
Free T - 278.3
Total - 846
The T is perfect, but how did the E go up 20 points after having lowered the T by over 40mg/w? I didn't think tamoxifen affected circulating E levels, and I thought one month would allow enough time for the old dose's aromatization and half-lives to finish clearing up so that this current dose is reflected accurately enough for reference. Which one of those assumptions are incorrect?
On that dose, my sex drive wasn't ideal either, and I lost a few more pounds than I would have liked...so I had started 140mg/w (100 e5d) right after getting the blood drawn. That, I would have thought, will bring my E down below 50 as it was with 160/w, while keeping the T on the high end of normal. But with these results, should I be worrying about the E going above 70 as it was with 115/w, instead of below 50?
First Check:
I was using 160mg/w enanthate and 20mg/d tamoxifen to reduce gyno tissue in the nips from said 200mg trial. I wanted to see where this much T would put my levels. Results:
Estradiol - 50pg/ml
Free T - 328.8 pg/mL
Total T - 953 ng/dl
I wanted to kick the Estradiol down a few more points so I could reach ~30, so next I tried 115mg test per week (80mg every 5 days). At this point, I had been off of the tamoxifen for a month and on the 115mg for a month. I thought this would be enough time for accurate measurements but wtf?
Estradiol - 70
Free T - 278.3
Total - 846
The T is perfect, but how did the E go up 20 points after having lowered the T by over 40mg/w? I didn't think tamoxifen affected circulating E levels, and I thought one month would allow enough time for the old dose's aromatization and half-lives to finish clearing up so that this current dose is reflected accurately enough for reference. Which one of those assumptions are incorrect?
On that dose, my sex drive wasn't ideal either, and I lost a few more pounds than I would have liked...so I had started 140mg/w (100 e5d) right after getting the blood drawn. That, I would have thought, will bring my E down below 50 as it was with 160/w, while keeping the T on the high end of normal. But with these results, should I be worrying about the E going above 70 as it was with 115/w, instead of below 50?