True real good points you made there. I'll bump the test like you said.
Question now I finally got my e2 in check. On 180 mgs of test a week pinning 3 times a week I've been taking exemstane 6.25 mg on pin days. Test level is 1200 and e2 is 29. How should I change my ai use when I bump the test up? I'm pretty hard to dial in
That's a tough one, you don't see a lot of ppl needing a ai on trt. Exemestane is definitely the more forgiving of the ai's so you usually don't need to be as perfect with it like you do adex or letro. It's really a guessing game. You could try doubling your trt and double your ai to match. Or basically whatever you bump up your test bump up your ai accordingly. You could raise test and leave the ai where it is till sides arise and the raise accordingly to match the increase in test.
Honestly these are guesses, there's no way to know for certain, especially if you had a hard time dialing it in to begin with.
Are you naturally a high aromatizer or is your bodyfat level On the higher side, >18%. If it's a bodyfat thing something as simple as dropping bf will help lower your need for a ai in most cases. If it's a genetic thing tho, it's gonna be a little more tricky.
Another thing you could do is add a little masteron, so something like 250 test/150mast. Mast is not a ai but it will compete with estrogen to a degree, on doses this low it probably would be enough to do the trick and you have the added benifit of being on a little extra gear going from 180mg test trt to 400total mg is a big difference yet still extremely mild, I'd hardly call that a cycle. I was doing something similar. At the end of my cut I was on trt (150cyp) I started my mini cycle of 300 test/200mast and was up 9lbs in 2.5 weeks without trying, and that was while doing 5days a week of high intensity cardio.