If your baseline is low this number is just about where it should be.
This is absolutely BS!! Makes me slap my forehead reading rhetoric like this.
My baseline from two separate tests was in the 50's before beginning TRT. I think dead men have more Serum T than that.
And Felicity, I said 200mg puts me anywhere from 800 up to about 1200 at highest. Usually in the 900's. But I've had outliers on both ends of the scale that I disregard.
That is using pharma stuff I get with my scripts.
I have tested a few UGLs too. I've found some to be on par, and some not. I've found some to use test E instead of test C. The results are very different.
The protocol I use is injecting every 7 days with Test C. I get blood drawn on the 7th day, before I do my next injection. I do this at a TRT dose. I've done this with doses ranging from 125mg to 200mg. I get blood draw after 7 days because the half-life of Test C is 8 days.
If I were to use Test E (and I have, UGL and pharma - galenika, and some iranian stuff), I would get blood drawn 4 or 5 days post injection because the half-life of test E is 4.5 days. Doing this, I've seen similar results as to using my protocol with Test C.
I do this protocol because it is how my doctor and I discussed doing it for my prescribed TRT. Test C, injected every 7 days, with blood drawn on the 7th day post injection.
I've been on doctor prescribed TRT for 4 years now. At first the tests were every 3 or 4 months. Then adjust dosing, wait and test again. Then tests were every 6 months, adjustments made if necessary. But my actual prescribed dose is 175mg/week due to how I respond. Am I a low responder? Possibly. But based on what I've seen from other users on boards I'm not that low of a responder. Some guys use 100mg a week and get 800-900ng/dl levels. Great! They will probably live longer than me too. It takes me at least 175mg to get there.