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