u/JoFoYo

New lifestyle, changes in my trt effectiveness

So, I will start this off by acknowledging that my choices in life have not always been wise or optimal, but they are what they have been and what's done is done so, here we are now. Anywho, I have recently gotten clean from over a decade of kratom use that also included other substances throughout the years at times including phenibut and alcohol for extended periods. In the thick of a very stressful few years of life where there were relationship problems, overworking issues, stress from many different angles, coupled with serious sleep disturbances and deprivation as well as physical exhaustion due to a job that pushed me past my limit repeatedly with regular heavy lifting/hauling and daily 10 to 15 miles of walking/running/stair climbing, I found myself with very low testosterone unsurprisingly. All of those factors, plus being at nearly a decade of daily kratom use and in my mid thirties were all contributing to the low t and I tried in vain for many months to implement lifestyle changes, rearrange my relationship dynamic, get regulated sleep, etc. Life at the time just didn't allow for most of those things to change and many weren't completely up to me to a degree so I went with the quick fix and got on trt. I got relief and over the next year or two figured out my optimal dosing schedule, route of administration, etc. Then came 7OH which is a much more potent drug and wrecks testosterone levels far harder than anything else I've experienced, so I combatted that with an increased dose. Here I am 6 months sober in just a few days and no longer dealing with many of the same stressors chiefly the opiates destroying my t levels. I have found that now my same dosage is resulting in too high of a total testosterone level and plan to change things up to fix this. I'm over 3 years into trt and not in a place in life that I want to throw myself into the unknown with attempting to come off and start up natural production again. My question is this, would anyone here think that changing my dosing protocol to more frequent smaller pins might do the trick to lower my peak levels? Currently I'm doing 0.35ml twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday. I was considering trying out daily 0.1ml dosing or every other day 0.2ml. Mainly my question is would simply increasing frequency at a lower amount per dose, essentially stretching out what is roughly the same amount with a very minor reduction total, have an effect on my peak levels or will it likely not change anything?

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u/JoFoYo — 12 days ago