Running a PCT to find a baseline seems like a good idea for you. Coming off shouldn’t be too bad. Your pre cycle levels were adequate.
Once you have found some kind of equilibrium you will be better placed to assess whether you want to try TRT again. If you do want to, start methodically and gradually, changing one thing at a time.
Today started my PCT journey per this guide: HPTA Restart- Easy Guide. I have some questions.
Assuming ~ 4 months to go from azoospermia to barely fertile following TRT and assuming ~ 2 months for a sperm to grow and mature suggests it takes around 2 months to have a functioning set of balls.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25904023/
If you’re worried, there’s arguments to be made for taking 10-20mg Tamixifen alongside HCG during part 2. Given the half life of the drug there’s logic to it.
Everyone is different although you’ll most likely feel the same either way.
Thank you. If any symptoms arise, as i understand its better to take nolva not armidex ?
4 days ago started to get alot small pimples on my forehead i guess its due to hcg ? ( only thing i changed ) . Have not tested my estrogent yet, but my guess is its quite high ? Is there any way to battle this ? From my research estrogen rise from hcg is not controllable with adex, is this right ?
Benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid work pretty well, and are available over the counter.
Brefore i wrote this post, i had been using duacgel for 3 days. As of today my forehead is clear of pimples. Guess it took a little longer than on other areas.
A little update. Im 3.rd week into last stage aka nolvadex. Im taking right now 20mg daily.
To be honest, I did not feel any difference either quitting test or to hcg only and now to nolvadex.
Maybe because I felt a little off and unmotivated already on trt dosage ? (100mg weekly)
Anyway, i had operation and doctors took my hemoglobin and hemocrit, they are okey 158 and 47% .
But as now this is my first PCT, i can see now why people cruise and blast. Deffinitly I am not training as hard etc, but the gains are just running away.
As for HCG, i did use 500iu per injection, altough its seems that i need to buy them endlessly, as it seems there is alot of wasted hcg when you inject 0.1ml
So 2 weeks still left with nolvadex, but now 20mg EOD.
What i have noticed, when i started nolvadex, I soon after noticed my libido is nonexistent. I thought maybe, job, stress etc. Is it possible side of nolva?
Funny thing is, i did not train for 2-3 month, bcs of injuries and operation, lost most gains and now started training again, and it feels like im still on test… getting bigger every day visually. Motivation is ok, sleep is ok, energy is ok, only libido… But when i know there is action , then i have no issues with erection.
Great journal, thanks for keeping it going. Will start 300mg T per cycle myself soon and this has been helpful.
Today was last pill of nolva. Libido is back. I guess the problem was nolva… After 1-2 weeks will do tests.
Yep, it is
So right now I feel completely normal. Will do tests soon and see what numbers say
Got my test back.
Hemoglobin 153 g/l 134-170 g/l
Hemocrit 46.6 % 40.0-49.0 %
Esofin 0.60 E9/L 0.02-0.40 E9/L ( i dont know exactly what this means )
Basofin 0.09 E9/L 0.01-0.08 E9/L ( i dont know exactly what this means )
HDL 1.7 mmol/l >1.0 mmol/
LDL 2.1 mmol/l <3.0 mmol/l
Testosterone 23.2 nmol/l 8.0-30.0 nmol/l ( when started " cycle " was 16 )
SHBG 34 nmol/l 14-71 nmol/l
TSH 1.94 mIU/l 0.40-4.00 mIU/l
Cortisol 503 nmol/l 102-535 nmol/l
Prolactin 434 mIU/l 73-407 mIU/l
Estrogen <88.0 pmol/l <161.0 pmol/l
Progesterone <1.6 nmol/l <2.0 nmol/l
FSH 3.9 IU/l 1.0-12.0 IU/l
LH 4.38 IU/l 0.80-7.00 IU/l
GH <0.15 mIU/l <9.00 mIU/l ( This is my concern. On datasheet it tells that its OK range, but is it not too low ? )
Also it is actually strange that my testostorone is higher than it was before cycle.
Pleas advice regaring GH, is it normal or there might me problem ? I dont have something to comapre with because I have never tested it before.
Regarding All other idicators it seems that i have recovered ?