I’ll go even further and say nothing above 160-180mg should be called TRT. Everything should be depending on the labs, but even with a really high SHBG binding up your free test, a 160mg/week dose should get you over that and put your free test in a nice, high end of the range if not more. 200mg/week plus anastrozole is the standard cookie cutter plan of the legal steroid clinics not basing any of their protocol on labs. Most using a protocol like that will run into elevated red blood cell count or hematocrit levels AKA thick blood.
attempted to get a script for arimidex while on legit trt and doctor said he couldn't do it as it'd be considered "cosmetic", insurance wouldn't cover, etc...
genetics come into play with the RBC stuff as well. ive never had an issue with RBC. doesn't matter if it's 2-4g of my own test cyp/enan/ace (& test levels of 9k+, which I believe was on just 2g of my enanthate at the time), or 200mg bi-monthly of Phizer Cyp. (eq and anadrol had no effect either, as I was running 200-300 drol/day when I was hospitalized with thyrotoxic periodic paralysis and had a good 14tubes of blood taken on a Wednesday (1st time I woke up unable to move from waist down) and at least that much taken Friday-sun after I woke up way worse and the actually admitted me Friday morning. RBC's were never even elevated, much less near dangerous levels.
considering legit TRT, 200mg every other week put me at 1200 a day or 2 (or 2-3) days after the injection and would drop down the 700-750s by the day before (or day of) my next injection. for a while I was getting 300mg every 3wks and i'd be 1400 the day or 2 after the injection, but would drop into the 500-600s by time for the next shot.
… and my natural test levels are sub-90ng