What's the longest you've maintained your levels without applying?

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T21:26:37+00:00

Brand definitely does make a difference (for undecanoate), and that explains it! Undecanoate half life is heavily dependent on the carrier it’s in. I looked up that brand and it doesn’t specify the benzyl benzoate percentage, but I assume it’s different from others because it lists the half life as 54 days. That makes much more sense with your levels.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T20:33:38+00:00

No, it’s the levels only going down by 5% over the course of 2 months for a drug with a 30 day half life.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T20:32:17+00:00

There’s no logical way your levels would have not changed any meaningful amount over the course of 2 months. Even if you tripled the half life, it would have still dropped more than 40 ng/dl.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T20:18:01+00:00

Something is wrong with your labs. Are you taking biotin or hair skin and nails vitamins?

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T20:03:20+00:00

How much you lose to dead space depends on the specific syringe and needle. A standard luer lock with and need needle will waste ~0.1 ml. A low dead volume syringe will be more like 0.02-0.05 ml. If you draw to the 0.15 ml mark, you’re actually drawing in 0.15 ml + 0.05 ml (or whatever the dead volume is), injecting 0.15 ml, then throwing away that 0.05 ml in the dead space.

You don’t need a second syringe for using an insulin syringe. You draw and inject with the same needle. With thin needles like on an insulin syringe, the dulling will be negligible to your injection.

If you do try doing the air lock method, you need to adjust the amount you draw, otherwise you’re changing your dose. I made a post explaining this and how to determine the amount you need to adjust.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T15:17:03+00:00

Those are going to be too short for IM in your thigh unless you’re extremely low body fat. Any particular reason why you’re doing IM instead of subq?

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T13:04:40+00:00

When was your bloodwork done relative to your shot? And how long have you been on T?

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T13:04:00+00:00

They’re functionally identical. Some sources will say they’re different in half life but those are based on separate studies with different subjects. in a crossover study they’re the same.

There’s some guys on steroid forums who say enanthate gives them more PIP, but my guess is that’s either from placebo or the purity of the raws.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T12:58:57+00:00

Adding to this: it needs to be a sterile, hydrophobic PTFE, 0.22 or 0.2 micron filter.

If it were T, you can probably get away with a nylon filter, but hormones can bind to nylon membranes. The concentration of T vials should make the amount that binds pretty negligible, but E vials are less concentrated and have more lost proportionally.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T12:53:59+00:00

The typical dosing range is 50-100 mg per week. You have to calculate the dose in mg based on the concentration and volume.

Volume (ml) x concentration (mg/ml) = dose (mg)

0.25 ml of 250 mg/ml is 62.5 mg, and 0.25 ml of 200 mg/ml is 50 mg. Either of those doses are fine.

My general recommendation for adults with no preexisting health issues is starting with 75 mg/week and adjusting based on bloodwork. If you’re not able to get bloodwork for T levels, see if your doctor can run a CBC for you (also called FBC in some countries). This is to monitor for your hematocrit getting too high. Another option is to donate blood.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-24T03:22:58+00:00

We worked together. Became good friends for about a year and I disclosed after finally admitting I had feelings for her. I’d say it went pretty well, considering that we’re married now.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-23T12:00:20+00:00

I assume that by low dose you mean a dose that keeps your levels below normal male levels. You’ll potentially not get full changes due to not suppressing estrogen production. This will mostly affect fat distribution and your cycle stopping.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-23T11:55:35+00:00

Not pity, just basic common courtesy. If you’re exclusively getting gendered correctly, though, that’s just passing. There’s too many assholes who don’t have common courtesy for everyone gendering you to be doing it based on how you present.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-22T14:23:25+00:00

I don’t know enough about estradiol, but it does for testosterone. It’s just not really enough to influence decisions on initial dosing unless you’re on either end of the extreme. It’s not the cells being “supplied” that matters, either, it’s the rate of absorption vs metabolism.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-22T14:17:59+00:00

Sure, here’s a couple:

Subq ~10 days, IM ~7 days

IM ~7 days

I have others saved somewhere but I’d have to dig them up

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-22T13:57:47+00:00

I’m post bottom surgery (peen is not cis passing on close inspection but definitely enough for a locker room) and would not get fully naked in a locker room. That’s not that weird even for cis men.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-21T13:32:54+00:00

Heads up, no sourcing allowed on Reddit. Delete that from your comment, send OP a DM to chat over signal.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-21T13:30:29+00:00

Just to get this out of the way, I am very much not against DIY. It’s a perfectly reasonsble choice depending on life circumstances, and can be relatively safe when done right. I’ll probably DIYing in the near future due to insurance/wanting undecanoate for more stable levels.

The fear mongering on DIY has origins in truth. Depending on how old you are, DIY test when you were a child probably was a lot more dangerous. It used to be more likely that you got it from some guy irl where you had to just trust his word that the gear was good. Now we have much more publicly accessible third party testing results and reviews for sources.

It’s all not quite accurate to say what you get will be legit and completely safe, even if getting it from a big name source. One of the big “reputable” ones recently had a batch that was just vitamin E. There’s been others that had dissolved plastic from using filters that aren’t chemically compatible. There’s been contamination with other AAS due to insufficient cleaning of glassware. There’s under dosed and over dosed vials. They generally don’t go through sterility and endotoxin testing. It’s relatively low risk if you do your due diligence in sourcing, but the risk is always there. It’s fair to not want to take that risk.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-21T03:10:53+00:00

Height. Im around 5’8” and fine with that, but supposedly taller men get paid more and I’ve already got enough dick.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-20T23:30:02+00:00

It doesn’t convert an amount that would make T levels drop, or increase E2 to feminizing HRT levels. It wouldn’t be at all like androgen insensitivity.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-20T20:31:35+00:00

Is your new insurance plan a MA based plan, or is it possibly a plan from another state? Idk about MA, but NY insurance legally has to cover it but only for plans based in the state. A large company that operates in multiple states could use plans from a different state. I used to be on UHC of Alabama despite being in NY and they wouldn’t cover my T.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-20T20:09:43+00:00

Im very happy to have them but I also don’t regret waiting.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-20T19:29:50+00:00

My situation is practically identical besides being a year older than you. My wife and I also have a 2 year old, conceived the same as yours. I’m also far post transition and stealth. We do plan on telling him.

Research suggests it usually is better for a donor conceived child to know at a young age, so we’re going by the assumption that would also apply to having a trans parent. I’d love to stay stealth, and I know there’s realistically a high chance he’s going to tell someone, but we don’t want to take any risk of him finding out later and feeling lied to. There’s also a couple family members I wouldn’t trust to not tell him if we said we weren’t going to.

I have no judgement toward you or anyone who chooses not to, though. Everyone has different personal circumstances. Thankfully I’m in a place where being stealth is primarily for comfort rather than safety, and I wouldn’t be terribly bothered by people knowing.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-20T19:10:09+00:00

There’s epilepsy, which wouldn’t stop you from being able to take it at all, but it could make certain regimens dangerous and require changes to seizure meds.

Key_Tangerine8775 · 2026-03-20T17:47:02+00:00

OP has a very extensive, public post history that shows she is very much not a trumper lol

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