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Funny story about testosterone enanthate dosing... so, I take it for body image/dysphoria reasons (to make myself more androgynous, basically) but I'm not a cis
by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Funny story about testosterone enanthate dosing... so, I take it for body image/dysphoria reasons (to make myself more androgynous, basically) but I'm not a cisgender man. My body produces very little testosterone on its own.
The doctor started me on a "midrange" dose of enanthate: 75mg every 10 days. My levels shot up, at the very high end of the male range. I brought that down to 75mg every 2 weeks and it barely budged.
This is the exact same drug/formulation that a lot of these guys are taking for TRT. The highest "official" dose is 100mg every 7 days. (I'm sure some of them are taking even more than that, but that's as much as a doctor should be prescribing you.)
Obviously everyone metabolizes this stuff differently, and if you're tall/heavy you'll likely need a higher dose than someone of average stature like me. But if my T levels shot up from ~20 ng/dL* to ~900 on a very moderate dose of enanthate, how high are those levels getting for someone who's starting from ~500?
* The normal female range is anywhere from 15 to 70. The normal male range is anywhere from 200 to 1000.