Gonna try and keep this short although theres a lot of history.
From the point at which I got on TRT I have rarely, ever ever, needed an AI. The only times I have are typically when test has been above 1500mg per week or running something with strong estrogen conversion like dbol.
Fast forward to the past ~9-10 months. Been having issues with erections, energy, drive, etc. I?m still playing around but have been changing doses and playing with an AI over the past few months. So far I seemed to have determined a couple things -
1. Whereas I never needed an AI before, except on high doses, Ive started needing one at lower doses (~600 per week or more). Have found that roughly 0.2mg Arimidex twice a week will work on moderate dosages but still feel like shit the day or two after taking the adex with mental fog and lethargy for whatever reason even though more or less provides worse results.
2. Lowering the dose and spacing them out more (every 4-5 days with test phenylprop) has me feeling much better, sex drive up, much higher energy, need less sleep, etc
3. I feel best the days before an injection and the day immediately after an injection has me tired, experiencing brain fog, etc.
Normally symptoms like these seem to correlate to low estrogen in almost every case Ive seen, typically due to AI overuse. Here though, it almost seems like the opposite is correlating with spikes in test levels causing lethargy? Trying to get some ideas.
Also, no, I dont have bloods. The last I had drawn had my estrogen at 300+ but I felt fantastic so Im going to say the typical ranges are worthless on supraphysiological doses of test, at least for me.
On another note I also wanted to see if anyone had a graph or research data on the average (if there is one lol) pharmacokinetics of estrogen conversion following testosterone injections over time? Im assuming I could take a good guess as to what that would look like with e2 trailing behind T levels in a peak/trough fashion but couldnt actually find anything like that.
From the point at which I got on TRT I have rarely, ever ever, needed an AI. The only times I have are typically when test has been above 1500mg per week or running something with strong estrogen conversion like dbol.
Fast forward to the past ~9-10 months. Been having issues with erections, energy, drive, etc. I?m still playing around but have been changing doses and playing with an AI over the past few months. So far I seemed to have determined a couple things -
1. Whereas I never needed an AI before, except on high doses, Ive started needing one at lower doses (~600 per week or more). Have found that roughly 0.2mg Arimidex twice a week will work on moderate dosages but still feel like shit the day or two after taking the adex with mental fog and lethargy for whatever reason even though more or less provides worse results.
2. Lowering the dose and spacing them out more (every 4-5 days with test phenylprop) has me feeling much better, sex drive up, much higher energy, need less sleep, etc
3. I feel best the days before an injection and the day immediately after an injection has me tired, experiencing brain fog, etc.
Normally symptoms like these seem to correlate to low estrogen in almost every case Ive seen, typically due to AI overuse. Here though, it almost seems like the opposite is correlating with spikes in test levels causing lethargy? Trying to get some ideas.
Also, no, I dont have bloods. The last I had drawn had my estrogen at 300+ but I felt fantastic so Im going to say the typical ranges are worthless on supraphysiological doses of test, at least for me.
On another note I also wanted to see if anyone had a graph or research data on the average (if there is one lol) pharmacokinetics of estrogen conversion following testosterone injections over time? Im assuming I could take a good guess as to what that would look like with e2 trailing behind T levels in a peak/trough fashion but couldnt actually find anything like that.
