I'll have a look at medichecks today and see if I can get one booked thank you very much for that. I will probably pay extra to have my blood taken though I'm not over confident at the thought of trying that
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In regard's to cycle length my first cycle was 12 week's but my second cycle of test was 14 week's and the test E/tren E were 14 week's. I felt I recovered fine but I did not get bloods done so I have no proof of this other than nuts coming back to size, having a strong libido and feeling "human" if that can even be said. I do realise that I was at the younger side of the 20's when I did this and I may not recover aswell as I did then. I just usually feel the enanthate ester gets to full flow by week 5-6 for me and I like to try get 8 weeks from then on but considering im kick starting with dbol I'll drop it down to 12 week's.
I do not mean to question your knowledge by any means and I may have misunderstood what I've read but I thought it was the cypionate ester that took 4 weeks to clear because it has a half life of 8 days and took up to 28 days or 4 weeks but I've read enanthate has a 4.5 day half life and took up to 14 days to clear? I've always done PCT 2 weeks after last jab when using enanthate? Again forgive me if I'm wrong because I'm here for advice but I would have thought If my test dose is 400mg per week then test enanthate @ 400mg after 4.5 days should leave 200mg? 4.5 days after should leave 100mg? 4.5 days after that should leave 50mg of testosterone in my system? Three half life's would be 13.5 days and I would assume those test levels would be ok to start PCT? I'm by no means stating what I have wrote is correct it is just my understanding from what I have read. That's mainly the reason I have never tried equipiose or nandrolone I didn't want to use a compound I had to stop 4-6 weeks sooner than test enanthate and I've yet try NPP.
Thanks again for your advice!
hey bro. On the half life your right E is a bit shorter than cyp (I thought 5 days but there or thereabouts anyway with cyp at 7-9) - there is an individuality to it as we all metabolise drugs at slightly different rates but the key is that it’s normally 5 half lives to clear a compound to insignificant levels (50mg test in your example isn’t far off some trt doses for example, some guys on here use 75mg a week trt). So E would be more like 3 weeks min to 4 weeks.
lots of stuff out there does say start pct after 2 weeks and in theory there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s that that for the first 1 to 2 weeks, maybe even 3 weeks it’s not effective so if pct is only 4 weeks people miss most of the benefits
it’s why I’d personally switch to prop, 1 day half life max.
yeah I don’t take my own blood, I’m not confident with that. I have doctor friends who know what I do who do the draw free for me which is handy.
on the cycle length, there isn’t a hard and fast rule on it, forgive me if it came across like that. It’s really just an increasing/decreasing risk thing. I’ve blasted and cruised for a few years so I’ve significantly increased the risk that I don’t recover a normal natural level if I decide to come off, but plenty of guys stay on for years, come off and get back to normal levels. At the other end there’s 20yr olds who run one 8 week cycle and end up on trt. Those are the extremes, imo (just based on what I personally see) the longer you suppress natural production the less likely it is to return to your baseline, the more likely outcome is you get back to a lower natural level than you had before, you do that over a number of years and eventually that level becomes low enough to need trt.
there’s no rules though bro, you may very possibly recover fine off 16 weeks, personally I’d rather people play it on the safer side or at least go into it accepting the potential trt risk and being cool with that (as if that doesn’t occur then it’s a bonus). Of course in the uk trt isn’t as easy but seems to be becoming more so, a uk guy on another thread found a good men’s health clinic down south that seemed really decent so hopefully we are moving in the right direction