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[twreck555]

Week 1 day 3, 211 this AM, puffy as all hell in my face and ankles



Not sure where my estrogen is at but I'm guessing it's creeping up. The reason i had had the primo in place was to mitigate this, now that it's gone I anticipate needing to tweak things. If my e2 does get too high I will need to decide between: reducing the testosterone dosage, or implementing an ai. Which will force me to examine my priorities once again. Not a bad thing I suppose. Happy black friday

 

[readalot]

Week 1 day 3, 211 this AM, puffy as all hell in my face and ankles

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Not sure where my estrogen is at but I'm guessing it's creeping up. The reason i had had the primo in place was to mitigate this, now that it's gone I anticipate needing to tweak things. If my e2 does get too high I will need to decide between: reducing the testosterone dosage, or implementing an ai. Which will force me to examine my priorities once again. Not a bad thing I suppose. Happy black friday

Looking great Brother!

 

[readalot]

My takeaway was that for a rough and inexpensive estimate that you are in the right ballpark, multiply the labcorp free t direct value by 0.7 and you should wind up in the 11.5-15.5 range to be in the top quartile of the range. (Assuming that quest range is what you go by? The labcorp ED range is way higher, 21-28 for the top quartile if i read that correctly?)

Yes multiplying by 0.7 roughly takes the direct pg/ml to ng/dl by ED.

Quest range is busted (long story) hence 15-20 ng/dl is reasonable target based on what we have go to by today for high end TRT.

Or spring for the more expensive ED test. Which for me at the moment I'm way above range either way I'm sure. But interestingly in the examples linked, so was the patient in question, though not quite so high as I am currently. I've already paid for my next labs which include the free t direct and I'm guessing after two weeks on this lower dose I'll still be high and need to titrate down again so I might just leave it alone and save the more expensive test for if or when fine tuning makes more sense.

Now I usually just take TT and SHBG and calculate FT by Vermeulen method. It runs pretty close to ED results typically.

Cool thread Brother. Wishing you the best on your journey!

 

[twreck555]

Yes multiplying by 0.7 roughly takes the direct pg/ml to ng/dl by ED.

Quest range is busted (long story) hence 15-20 ng/dl is reasonable target based on what we have go to by today for high end TRT.



Now I usually just take TT and SHBG and calculate FT by Vermeulen method. It runs pretty close to ED results typically.

Cool thread Brother. Wishing you the best on your journey!

Thanks Brother!

TT, SHBG, vermeulin method, 15-20. Copy that

Thank you very much for your support and information, I truly appreciate it. Looking forward to finding a place where things feel balanced, I know it's possible.

 

[twreck555]

Weight still moving up lmfao

 

[readalot]

vermeulin method

Free & Bioavailable Testosterone calculator

Free to use and undefeated in forum battles haha.