What Does A Typical TRT Dosage Look Like? (Find Your Range) | Ben Pakulski

Are you considering taking Testosterone or going on Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)? IFBB Pro Ben Pakulski elaborates on the safe amount of testosterone any male or female can take to make optimal progress and gains.

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[AlexanderMason]

I’ve had leukemia (cancer) and treatment really killed me. I lost so much muscle I had to learn how to walk again. I’m never hungry so I’m trying to fix that and eat more as well as fix my sleep cycle as I have had insomnia for a while and barely sleep. My testosterone is actually “normal” at around 450 but they think that may be low for me so they had me on androgel but now have switched me to testosterone cypionate once a week. I’m going to get the first shot today. Hopefully i can build back the muscle I lost. I used to be able to do 30-40 push ups before my cancer. Now i can’t even do 5 full, proper push ups or a single pull up. It’s so depressing as I’m 22 years old and am supposed to be in my prime. I literally get tired standing too long and am embarrassed to go to the gym as even small women can probably out lift me and have for endurance/stamina. To make things worse, I suffer from Adrenal insufficiency (which means that my adrenal glands don’t produce enough of the hormone called Cortisol aka “the stress hormone”) due to the radiation damaging my pituitary and adrenal glands. Every time you experience stress of any kind, whether from a car accident, simply working out, or from day to day life, a normal body produces cortisol to help the body deal with that stress, in my case, it doesn’t. I can end up going into adrenal shock and even die. The treatment is simple and involves taking cortisol pills daily. That being said, people with adrenal insufficiency are apparently known for being on the skinny side due to it so that is a bummer.

[fightingwarrior]

As a bodybuilder that’s been off testosterone for over a year. Whenever I start a basic 250 mg a week works great for me. Everyone reacts differently but living with low t definitely sucks!

[PhilMelbourne]

I am 73 and started 10 weeks ago, test 300 enanthate (100mg per week to 9 days) my doctor tried to scare me and said my testosterone level was off the chart unreadable.. I don't remember when I had my blood sampled but don't think it was close to when I injected. My PSA did go up from 4.8 to 8.5 so that was a little concerning. I will get it checked again in 2 months. I feel great actually have fun in the gym. I am now benching and incline benching 225 lb. 10 weeks ago only half that and would work out for about 30 minutes and leave. I don't plan on going off this even if it kills me.

[ScottDreyfus]

1 year ago almost to the day I started trt post brain tumor removal. My male hormones never recovered and my free test was 4pg/dl (below the reference range) and 174 ng/dl. My doctor said only my adrenal gland was producing hence the low free. My body just wasn’t working. I was taking prescriptions for insert problem here to the tune of 10+ RX’s a month. Don’t stop advocating for your life. I literally had to pay out of pocket to get a ct because insurance won’t pay for an elective ct scan even though the patient had gained 50+lbs in 4 months and was on thyroid, cholesterol, blood pressure, and liver and kidney support. One mass and a year of homing in a dosage and frequency I’ve almost lost 50lbs back and my body has recomped considerably. I’ve lost over 20% of my body fat going from 32% down to 19% in a year without doing anything different diet wise. I no longer take any health related prescriptions other than a injection every other week. My body just started working again. It was never a lack of activity, I literally walk for work. If I hadn’t thrown a fit I’d probably sitting here near dead with a tumor bigger than a golf ball growing larger by the second.

[andrewbayram]

Men produce about 50 to 70mg test per week, a kind of average. Free test is important when looking at your levels along with LH and so on. Even at 70mg per week naturally will produce different levels in different men. Personally as an average I'd say much more then150mg per week as a replacement dose is hitting the twilight zone between trt and performance enhancing doses. I'm on nebido evey 10 weeks and of the 1000mg about 650mg is available. That kind of average at 65mg per week (yes, I know there is a peak and a trough, feeling it every time and the low is shit). I'd love to be stable on 65-100mg per week but you can't do it on the NHS in the UK. 200-250mg/week would blow my mind. Replacements is absolutely different to cycling. We need more good information about the differnces between these 2 things. My replacement despite it's flaws has been fantastic and I think has given me some insight into how people can get caught up in the whole steroid game.

[sandropedrotti]

Thanks Ben Pakulski for his honesty!! Most PT and body builders will not talk about TRT at all...

[jefferyyounce]

As a research rat, I have taken everything in the PDR. At 61 years old I'm on TRT and if I get the slightest bit of sleep apnea or lower peripheral edema, I throttle back. I take 100-200mg of Test Cypionate every other week.

[garycsfunlife]

I am 44 and was tested and was over 900 with around 56-59 free and side affects (swelling, bloating)(skin)(no energy) ( constipation) (little to no interest or drive )(no sex ability) at 400-700 I have everything back and am at a better place for everything and my body is driving me unlike at 900+ where my mind had to push my body so the right level for the person is everything you have to be in your sweet spot to be at your best and for info my clean test blood work came in at 96 after back surgery so I know the feeling of low to high personally

[BizzyIzzy]

The dose is way overstated as well in these topics. What about levels? Different doses give different levels to different people, then on top of that different people tolerate different levels differently.

[randyjohnson]

I take 75mg of testosterone per week broken into a daily injection of .05 ml....im 56...look GREAT but i was pretty dialed in most of my life on diet and lifting weights...

[AaronEstebanSEO]

Actually I was reading that men are also prescribed 400mg every 2 weeks which is equal to 200mg a week.

[TheRedding]

20mg increases or decrease every 6 weeks till you have symptom relief..

[Ireallybthatguy]

My doctor died during Covid and every doctor since has denied me testosterone even though I have a deficiency, I’m so fed up with it I’ve had to take things into my own hands unfortunately to feel normal. I’m taking 125mg every 3-4 days with 20mg anavar daily. Expecting my test lvl to me crazy when I get blood work done, also have aridex incase any problems. Before I had 200mg per ml testosterone from the doctor and took 100mg every 10 days, I didn’t even feel very good and now I feel crazy stronger at the gym, I have much more life in me and I’m happy.

[danielhonisett]

Test c 200 is amazing.. I had some small side effects .. joints aching ect but I counteracted that with cod liver oil and magnesium tablets. Apart from that I was all good. Great stuff and definitely works

[gummyerin]

250mg of sus every 10 days been on that dose about 10 yrs fairly basic, , added hcg 1000iu and a natural estrogen blocker about 6 months ago, , still ripped and lean about 10-12% body fat, ,,in 50 this year, , im still destroying men half my age at the gym 👍🏻

[dc-irow]

I started on 200 a week at 35 years old 3 years later I'm now 30 years old

[darrylh]

I have been using testosterone cream for about 9 months now, started at 50mg for first 3 months, then 75mg and just recent my doctor put me up to 125mg as my available T levels had not changed. I am really hoping I start to see some benefits from the higher dosage, when I had my first requisition done my overall T level was 150..I was blown away as I am only 40.

[DJJerzyOfficial]

I would say like 100mg-125mg test cyp a week is good, having stable levels is key, so for me 37.5mg every two days, will 100 IU of HCG is ideal. This puts me at 112.5mg of test + the 100 IU of HCG gives a little boost, without the sides of high ESTRO, and keeping the balls working. Less is more with TRT, also some people do good with once a week, other people cant, this is because of the half life of different esters. So its about stable levels, like me I tried 200mg, it was way to much, caused anxiety and lethargy and just weird mood swings, i went down to 160mg and it was still way to much, 100ish-125 ish is pretty decent, with +100HCG iu with each injection is gucci for me

[Macatho]

200mg test-e/c/p per week is instantly going to push you above 1200 ng/dl. Probably to around 1600-1700 ng/dl.

[kevinsaeedbueno]

I am roofer and go to the gym 6 days a week i take 250-400mg with no ai once a week and with omad diet, i feel amazing, i have some deca and anavar i add in whenever I want the extra help with recovery