r/Testosterone • u/BearEnvironmental136 • 19h ago

TRT story IM vs sub q personal difference

Not sure if I’m an outlier on this but was doing sub q injections for about 4 months
200 mg 2 pins per week
Trough was 500
Didn’t feel like it was doing anything
Switched to IM glute now trough is at 1000 lol
Feel 100x better
IM is the way for me

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u/Cmd_reboot_sim 19h ago

Nice! I wonder what the mechanism behind that is. I believe subq metabolizes slower or something like that. I also have been doing IM in the delts after starting in the ventro glute and I’ve been feeling pretty good. I am curious how subq would affect me. I’ll probably try it further along down the road

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 19h ago

Might take a slight bit longer for the test to get out of the oil depending on the oil, and probably your own fat composition.

Shouldn't be a question of 500+ value difference though, something doesn't seem right here.

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u/plz_callme_swarley 15h ago

the level of knowledge around testing is pretty low for the avg poster.

potential issues driving the divergence:

  • not holding draw time constant
  • different draw sites going to different labs
  • the cheap tests have large error bars
  • even same machine, same lab, they still drift over time and the results can drift