I have been on testosterone shots for 9 weeks. I just got my blood work back and my free testosterone was high, and my estradiol is high. I’m on 200 mg spit into two doses. I was not taking arimidex but will now take it. What does high free testosterone mean? Something doesn’t seem right because my testosterone level 324 when I started, could it also shoot up that high?
Total Test 1091 (250-1100 ng/dL)
Free test 302.2 (35.0 - 155 pg/ml)
FSH 0.7 (1.6-8.0 mIU/mL)
LH 0.2 (1.5-9.3 mIU/mL)
Estradoil Ultrasensitive 64 (
Yes it can. It appears you should lower dose. That should help immensely.
How much do you inject weekly and frequency?
If you lower dose I suggest not starting an ai.
Your body and labs is telling you inject less. You should not take another medication when the obvious answer is your are taking too much testosterone.
It’s like over eating saturated fats that increases cholesterol and taking a statin instead of eating less bad stuff that caused the elevated cholesterol.
Can you get info from vial and state the quantity you are injecting. Just to be sure.
If you are in fact doing 200mg 1x week. You can try 150 1x a week. Or maybe 120 a week split in 2 injections a week. Doing 2 a week may help you feel more stable since levels fluctuate less.
LH and fsh should be close to zero. Your Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Testes- Axis is shut down. When your axis sees exogenous testosterone it stops producing LH. Even if you inject 100 it will still be shutdown. This is how it works.
I did have a vial that was purchased online tha was 250mg per 1ml but I was dosing it at at .03 twice a week to try and get 200 mg because I couldn’t afford to get the prescription from my doctor. But I decided I didn’t want to use the that because I didn’t know what I was injecting so I picked up my prescription that is 200mg/ml
I switched to the prescribed vial yesterday. And I am splitting my doses. I did the vial I purchased on line for 8 weeks than got my blood work done. That one was 250mg/ml but I dosed it at .03 split twice weekly
See this … lab Corp reports Free t in pg/l but there range is like 10 to 25. This guys labs free t range is 35-150… I had 27 and thought I was high. This is nonsense…
I see you doctor isn’t checking SHBG levels, there’s no mystery here, just that your SHBG must be on the lower end which is why free hormones are so high compared to your Total T. Lower SHBG men typically do better on two or more injections per week since Free T->E2.
These smaller more frequent injections will lower E2, the larger the injection, the bigger the impact will be in the form of estrogen.
