Excellent advise! My plan will be to use the Exem EOD until it's as little as possible. Only issue is I think the Exem is drying out my joints, cuz my shoulders are killing me and the last time was when I ran Exem after a ****ty trest cycle. Hopefully it goes away. Long term plan is to just maintain TRT dose only and keep everything clean! I fear now my TRT could inflame the painful lump, and then Id be pissed cuz I love being on TRT and don't want to have to stay on an AI permanently. Any advise on that?
See two paragraphs below this one for more info on solutions. Masteron-E, my friend. But only after you get the estrogen under control.Mast-Propionate works too but not as good. I've found that Masteron-E, supplemented at low doses ~ 100-200mg/wk, is sufficient to keep estrogen issues out of the way, while also increasing the effectiveness of the testosterone as well. The benefit here is that you get more muscle hardness, more sex drive, more anabolic synergy with the test yet the Masteron won't crush estrogen levels at that dose but rather just keep the estrogen from becoming an issue.
It is a preventative measure, not a fix. I've always found that if I start up a cycle of something without any estrogen issues and no gyno symptoms, Masteron and other DHT's actually help keep me dry and gyno at bay. However, when I have existing gyno symptoms, Masteron, as well as Desoxy T, cause more issues. Lastly, once things are under control, run a lower dose of Test with the Masteron to make up your "TRT" dose. So if 200mg/wk is what you had in mind, run 100mg of each instead. It will do better things for your mood and cholesterol than the higher T dose w/ AI's. If you are taking legitimate TRT from a men's clinic or endo, talk to them about this option. Make sure they understand that you don't want "more" anabolics but rather a more efficient combination of drugs. Instead of 200mg T, take 100 of each Test and Mast for better results overall and a healthier cholesterol profile.
Nolva is still an option, too. I would recommend Raloxifene instead but I have noticed that Ralox often times makes my gyno symptoms worse, for whatever reason. If you can't get it under control, then you have to reduce your T levels next to nothing temporarily to get it under control. You could stop all androgens for 2-3 weeks, run pharmaceutical grade Clomid at 25-50mg ED alongside Nolva @ 10-20mg/day for those few weeks. Taper those down and start Mast-E. Run Mast-E for a few weeks standalone then re-introduce Test afterwards, tapering it up as you taper the Masteron down to a sustainable TRT dose.
A third option is to start using EQ as your test base from now on. Other than Test, EQ is the second best at pretending to be testosterone, with Trest right behind it - except that EQ's conversion is about 50-60% that of Testosterone. However, if you run EQ any higher than 100mg-150mg/wk, you need Nattokinase to prevent blood clotting and thickening of the blood in general. It only takes days before EQ starts causing coagulation of the blood. Nattokinase removes all doubt about this issue though.
EQ and Masteron together are pretty good at pretending to be testosterone and they will give you a level of gym performance unmatched mg for mg to any other steroid out there other than Tren. Plus they make you hard as nails and road map vascularity, too.