Excuses why levels are off to my endocrinologist

[SmoothSailing]

Hello

I’ve been on TRT for 2 years at 120mg/week and get blood work done every 6 months.

I’ve upped this to 500mg/week and will run for 3 months and then go back down to 120mg/week for 8 weeks before blood work. (Running test-e)

I’m worried it may not be long enough and if anything shows off I was wondering if there are any good excuses such as supplements or other things one may have done other then jacked up their test lol

Not sure if there is anything but I thought I would ask.

 

[Guc_Nukem]

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Plot it here to get an idea of what your levels will be.

Based on what I saw on the plot, you should be fine.

 

[Tiddy]

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Plot it here to get an idea of what your levels will be.

Based on what I saw on the plot, you should be fine.

Are you plotting from a desktop? It always messes up when I do it on my phone

 

[That Guy]

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Plot it here to get an idea of what your levels will be.

Based on what I saw on the plot, you should be fine.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I plot the compounds, add compound and it shows me the levels on the chart.

When I tab the blood work, it never changed from what the default numbers are there. Is it supposed to give me a general idea what the blood work would show?

 

[jumdumpster]

if its any help i ran 600 test 350 npp plus some other stuff my last cycle. i came off eight weeks ago and have been cruising on 250 test. my blood work a few days ago was 1425 test level which correlates perfectly for me to taking 250 test c a week. so my level 8 weeks post cycle wasnt interfered with at all by my cycle. ive done bloodwork around this far out everytime post cycle, maybe even a little sooner sometimes like 6 weeks, and it always just shows my cruise dose in my levels on the bloodwork.

 

[Guc_Nukem]

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I plot the compounds, add compound and it shows me the levels on the chart.

When I tab the blood work, it never changed from what the default numbers are there. Is it supposed to give me a general idea what the blood work would show?

Are you plotting from a desktop? It always messes up when I do it on my phone

 

[SmoothSailing]

That’s

if its any help i ran 600 test 350 npp plus some other stuff my last cycle. i came off eight weeks ago and have been cruising on 250 test. my blood work a few days ago was 1425 test level which correlates perfectly for me to taking 250 test c a week. so my level 8 weeks post cycle wasnt interfered with at all by my cycle. ive done bloodwork around this far out everytime post cycle, maybe even a little sooner sometimes like 6 weeks, and it always just shows my cruise dose in my levels on the bloodwork.

That’s great thanks.
Curious - what about the other levels?

My blood work I get does has the following checked off:
- ALT
- Alk. phosphatase
- lipid assessment (includes cholesterol, HDL-C, triglycerides, calculated LDL-C & Cholesterol/HDL-C ratio
- CBC

 

[jumdumpster]

That’s

That’s great thanks.
Curious - what about the other levels?

My blood work I get does has the following checked off:
- ALT
- Alk. phosphatase
- lipid assessment (includes cholesterol, HDL-C, triglycerides, calculated LDL-C & Cholesterol/HDL-C ratio
- CBC

my rbc count was 0.05 over the range and white cell count was also very slightly over the range they gave me, but slightly high blood cell counts can just be totally normal on trt and in athletes as far as i know. my liver/kidney/cholesterol levels were all perfectly normal, same with everything else.

 

[zebradelt]

Not the best excuse, but you could play dumb and say you forgot to pin one week so you took two weeks worth of test in one pin

 

[SmoothSailing]

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Not the best excuse, but you could play dumb and say you forgot to pin one week so you took two weeks worth of test in one pin

I think my test levels will be fine is the rest of the measurement they take
I’m going to try and delay it longer - I could also say I pinned and got blood the next day as it was the only time I could go.

 

[Guc_Nukem]

I th

I think my test levels will be fine is the rest of the measurement they take
I’m going to try and delay it longer - I could also say I pinned and got blood the next day as it was the only time I could go.

If you're going to be on TRT for at least 8 weeks before you test, you will absolutely be fine, especially since it sounds like you were only blasting test before that.

The only values that could be potentially elevated would really be reflective of your trt usage.

Unless you have an underlying health condition that would show up, but that's obviously something you want to catch in bloodwork.

It sounds like your anxiety just has to do more with just some inexperience around bloodwork.

I would encourage you to get some private bloodwork done about 6 weeks after you start cruising.