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It’s not much fun. Get a shot. First couple of days. I FEEL AMAZING! I WANT TO PUNCH EVERYONE! Then you’re good for a couple days. Then your dragging worse the

It’s not much fun. Get a shot. First couple of days. I FEEL AMAZING! I WANT TO PUNCH EVERYONE! Then you’re good for a couple days. Then your dragging worse then ever. Repeat every week. Cream for skin is same thing but over the course of a day. Plus it’s crazy expensive. Eventually decide it’s not worth it and start finding out why levels are low and try and fix underlying causes.

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indecisive_user 3y ago
You can get shorter acting esters that are injected every day or 3 days. That would make blood serum levels much more consistent
adrr 3y ago
Fixing your underlying issues is a better fix. Losing weight and leading a more healthy lifestyle will improve your levels. You can also inject every other day subcutaneously. You won’t spike your estrogen due to the more consistent levels.
PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> It’s not much fun. TRT forums are kind of fascinating because they're full of people who though (or, sadly, were convinced by TRT clinics) that TRT was going to be amazing, solve all of their problems, and make them feel like 20 year olds again. Then the realities of getting your hormones from imperfect exogenous sources and dealing with all of the imperfect complications thereof set in. A lot of disappointed stories from people who feel marginally better but thought it was going to cure every struggle in their lives. Unfortunately, a lot of people with depression issues also end up in TRT clinics because hypogonadism is a more palatable diagnosis than mental health issues for many.
mikebenfield 3y ago
Unless you’re on some crazy fast ester, that should not happen at all. The injection forms a depot in your muscle that gradually puts testosterone into your bloodstream. Your actual blood testosterone levels should not vary dramatically from day to day with regular injections
- adrr 3y ago
  weekly injections is still very spikey in terms a levels. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multiple-dose-pharmacokinetics-of-testosterone-enanthate-after-injection-of-250-mg_fig6_264848721 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multiple-dose-pharmacoki...
  - solumunus 3y ago
    Test Undecanoate used weekly is flat.
- MagicMoonlight 3y ago
  Medicine is very far behind recreational use ironically in terms of half lifes. While we know all about esters, doctors think “lmao just give a 3 day half life every 14 days bro” which is why people like this end up screwed. The worst is psych meds. They put people on monthly injections for anti-psychotics despite the fact that they clearly don’t last a month. Those patients then end up going insane for the last week of every month putting everyone at risk. Two week injections would solve it, but no. Monthly. Medicine as a field just doesn’t seem to realise how much of a difference dosing interval makes. Whereas recreational users know because daily vs weekly is ridiculous obvious through side effects.
solumunus 3y ago
You would have to be doing something incredibly inappropriate for that to be your experience. I’m quite confident you haven’t actually been through this yourself.
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indecisive_user 3y ago

You can get shorter acting esters that are injected every day or 3 days. That would make blood serum levels much more consistent

adrr 3y ago

Fixing your underlying issues is a better fix. Losing weight and leading a more healthy lifestyle will improve your levels. You can also inject every other day subcutaneously. You won’t spike your estrogen due to the more consistent levels.

PragmaticPulp 3y ago

> It’s not much fun. TRT forums are kind of fascinating because they're full of people who though (or, sadly, were convinced by TRT clinics) that TRT was going to be amazing, solve all of their problems, and make them feel like 20 year olds again. Then the realities of getting your hormones from imperfect exogenous sources and dealing with all of the imperfect complications thereof set in. A lot of disappointed stories from people who feel marginally better but thought it was going to cure every struggle in their lives. Unfortunately, a lot of people with depression issues also end up in TRT clinics because hypogonadism is a more palatable diagnosis than mental health issues for many.

mikebenfield 3y ago

Unless you’re on some crazy fast ester, that should not happen at all. The injection forms a depot in your muscle that gradually puts testosterone into your bloodstream. Your actual blood testosterone levels should not vary dramatically from day to day with regular injections

adrr 3y ago
weekly injections is still very spikey in terms a levels. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multiple-dose-pharmacokinetics-of-testosterone-enanthate-after-injection-of-250-mg_fig6_264848721 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multiple-dose-pharmacoki...
- solumunus 3y ago
  Test Undecanoate used weekly is flat.
MagicMoonlight 3y ago
Medicine is very far behind recreational use ironically in terms of half lifes. While we know all about esters, doctors think “lmao just give a 3 day half life every 14 days bro” which is why people like this end up screwed. The worst is psych meds. They put people on monthly injections for anti-psychotics despite the fact that they clearly don’t last a month. Those patients then end up going insane for the last week of every month putting everyone at risk. Two week injections would solve it, but no. Monthly. Medicine as a field just doesn’t seem to realise how much of a difference dosing interval makes. Whereas recreational users know because daily vs weekly is ridiculous obvious through side effects.

solumunus 3y ago

You would have to be doing something incredibly inappropriate for that to be your experience. I’m quite confident you haven’t actually been through this yourself.

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