If you do a bit of diging that half-life was originaly done and tested with various esters in rats, which metabolize those esters at alot different rates than humans. The 15 day half-life was an old formula from that study that Approximately each carbon atoms is equal to a half-life of 1.5 days. Therefore a decanoate steroid ester would have a half-life of 15 days (11 carbon atoms * 1.5 days constant). Later studies in human showed a big differencce of half-lives for humans though.
And even then those studies will vary depending on chemical individuality and other factors like the carrier used for the depot.
agh hell doesn't matter 3days I don't think are going to make that damn much difference for pct realy, I guess if you have to be politicaly correct though lol there are plenty of recent abstracts showing the decanoate ester to be shorter in humans.
This study shows 7-12 days of the decanoate ester
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Kinetics, Organon, Oss, the Netherlands; International Regulatory Affairs, Organon, Oss, the Netherlands; Xendo Laboratories, Groningen, the Netherlands;Focus Clinical Drug Development, Neuss, Germany; International Medical Services, Organon, Oss, the Netherlands.
Pharmacokinetics of nandrolone in serum and urine was investigated in healthy young men after a single intramuscular injection of 50 mg (n = 20), 100 mg (n = 17) or 150 mg (n = 17) nandrolone decanoate. Blood samples were collected pre-dose and for up to 32 days after dosing. In addition, in the 50 and 150 mg groups 24-hours urine samples were collected at pre-dose and during days 1, 7 and 33, and in the 150 mg group additional samples were collected after 3 and 6 months. Serum concentrations and area-under-curve of nandrolone increased proportionally with the dose administered. Peak serum concentration (Cmax) ranged from 2.14 ng/mL in the 50 mg group to 4.26 ng/mL in the 100 mg group and to 5.16 ng/mL in the 150 mg group. Cmax was reached after 30 (50 and 100 mg) and 72 h (150 mg), whereas the terminal half-life was 7-12 days. In urine, pre-dose concentrations of 19-NA and/or 19-NE were detected in 5/37 subjects (14%). In the 50 mg group, 19-NA and/or 19-NE could be detected at least until 33 days after injection in 16/17 subjects (94%). In the 150 mg group of subjects presumed to have not previously used nandrolone, nandrolone metabolites could be detected up to 6 months in 8/12 subjects (67%) for 19-NE to 10/12 subjects (83%) for 19-NA.
SomeStudies done on nandrolone decanoate pharmacokinetics comparing ester, injection volume and injection site demonstrate that even a gluteal decanoate injection of high concentration doesn't yield more than 7-8 days of half-life. Testosterone enanthate injections given in the same concentration (200 mg/ml), dose and injection site, yield 6-7 day half-lives. The difference is not as big as suggested. These numbers taken off the minto studies are the most accurate results imo considering the way this study was done.
IC your assumption is not bad and based on evidence, just recently alot and even the HRT docs are finding varying differences though.
The carbon number x 1.5 days will get you close except esters like Phenylpropionate which completely screw that formula all up , 9 carbons but it's one of those off the wall funny shaped esters and higher number of hydrogens (if my memory serves me correct! lol)
This is a good thread, imo everyone here had good advice on this topic.
and GS damn son nice work there!