T Cyp to T Enanth - E2 control?

[kpt]

I've read testosterone enanthanate doesn't aromatize as much as cyp. (Or at all.) If that's so, if you switch to enanthanate, do you have to go back through and figure out proper E2 control all over again?

 

[buck]

Should be about the same as there half lives are so close.

 

[mranak]

I've read testosterone enanthanate doesn't aromatize as much as cyp. (Or at all)

That is total BS. Whoever wrote that should not right about things about which they do not understand.

Once you remove the esters, they are both ordinary testosterone, hence the aromatization is the same.

Cypionate is a slightly longer ester, but for all practical purposes it is the same as enanthate. Testosterone cypionate is 70% testosterone by weight and testosterone enanthate is 72% testosterone by weight.

 

[pmgamer18]

Yet it all depends on were you rub on the gel if you rub it on fat then it converts easier. If you do shots IM then they don't. So if you over weight your going to have trouble with high E2 I don't care what T med you use.
Phil

 

[mranak]

pmgamer18: Just an FYI: Since he was asking about testosterone cypionate and enanthate, we automatically know that he isn't referring to a transdermal. The molecular weight of testosterone cypionate and testostereone enanthate is too high to penetrate the skin in sufficient amounts. That is, absorption would be very poor. The transdermals use ordinary testosterone, without any esters attached.

Even if esterfied testosterone could penetrate the skin (for all I know, propionate can), it wouldn't be preferred because we would loose the DHT benefit of the transdermal, since the 5-alpha reductase in the skin can't convert and esterfied testosterone into DHT.

 

[pmgamer18]

I knew that I was just telling him both sides of the story.
Phil

 

[kpt]

Thanks, makes perfect sense. Need to stop reading sites other than reputable ones...