it's hard to follow a monthly basis when my actual hormone changes are on a weekly cycle, it's based on the pharmacokinetics of estradiol valerate, when a half life is around 3.5 days and I inject once a week, I have a cycle then that has highs and lows over a weekly period (not a monthly period).

So, the week is like a compressed month - I have highs and lows and in a monthly cycle, progesterone levels rise when estradiol levels rise, so I just roughly do something similar by taking prog when my E levels are gaining and peaking, and then stopping as my E levels drop and then bottom out before my next injection.

regarding mood, I didn't really solve the mood issues until I had an orchi - my mental health got much better after that. Before then I was doing monotherapy and I struggled to sufficiently block T production even with very high levels of E (like >500 pg / mL at trough, which is really too high for long-term levels).