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AlphaMD's Answer
We don't use that in TRT often anymore due to the short half life, so we don't have active patients with it to speak from experience on.
That said, I would suggest not doing that level of dosing. You can apply the same weekly logic of any ester chain length to dosing when converting to a weekly value. So At 10-15mg EOD that's 35mg to 52.5mg a week. Considering you're at 440 total testosterone, what will very likely happen is that you not only see no benefits but feel worse.
That is because no matter how much or how little outside Testosterone you add to the body, your body will suffer natural production suppression. At such a low value of additional Testosterone being added to your body, the suppression of a portion of that 440 TT will likely be more than you're giving it.
A good example of this is primary hypogonadism vs relative hypogonadism. If someone comes to us with 150 TT and someone else with 600 TT, the one at 150 TT will be given a lower dose and will experience just as many benefits on that as the 600 TT at a higher dose because we have to overcome the natural suppression of both and the relative man is losing more of his production.
If you're going to try it out, think about 40-50mg EOD or hold off on doing it if that sounds too high. TRT isn't something you can just do a little of, it's very all or nothing once adding Testosterone.
Edit: To expand on the other topics, libido should increase. Emotional changes would be a result of Estrogen transference rather than Testosterone. Watch for those & any sensitive nipples. If you see those, you can look at using a low dose AI.
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