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Is my T low?
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Looking for an honest opinion. Know this isn’t the general flavor of posts here, but I know this community will be honest with me and has significant medical knowledge.

Just got levels back. My T is 481. Blood taken on Monday, 0.5 200mg/mL solution, subQ, every Friday night. So approx 57hrs after injection. Lab says normal range for my age (29) is between 300 and 836. I’m also on 5mg finasteride. Is this on the low side? Estradiol was 29 - it’s been in the single digits or even undetectable before.

I know the fin could play a role in this. I’m on it for hair loss, which was starting to get bad (literally the only thing from T I dislike, but to be expected with my family history, rip). But I also feel like if I’m taking what’s usually the max dose, my T should be higher and E lower. Also, no ovaries, so this is purely metabolized from T…but that’s only supposed to happen if T gets too high, and clearly it’s not all that high…

Looking for an honest opinion. I generally trust my doc to be honest with me; he’s a specialist in trans care. But I also know that some can be…hesitant? about how high they let their FTM pts’ T go.

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