I just wrapped up my first injection cycle,
250/mg sust
150mg/EQ
all E3D
I was so glad to be done. tired of pinning, tissues in lats, quads, glutes, and pecs felt sinewy and thick. nothing felt smooth after first five weeks.
just did PCT of Nolva, clomid, and osterine.
Start again in 2 weeks and cant wait to get back on the bicycle! im noticing now all the things I could have capitalized on with the last cycle
keep on strugglin
Heading into my last week of injections. After thursday I will start 10 days of HCG blast, 500iu a day, to prepare myself for PCT. Will stop the HCG 3-4 days before PCT. Hoping to recover nicely. Planning on running the PCT I laid out in my first post, along with Vit D, Fish Oil, DAA, etc.
I still feel great, although the hair issue is still bothering me. It is strange because I didnt really notice the hair loss until about 10 weeks in. So could it be from possibly running 500mg of test for a long period of time? Nobody in my family is bald, not even my grandparents. So, I do not think I have the genes for balding; with that being said I am really counting on my hair growing back, or at least thickening after DHT levels level out.
I have been using Nizarol 1% shampoo and a conditioner with Biotin in it. I bought rogain, but after reading reviews and stuff on it I might just return it. Anybody have any advice reguarding hair loss, or some tips for PCT? Thanks for following my log
Any reason why you did HCG as part of your PCT instead of on cycle?
HCG is not a part of my PCT. I used it weeks 6-14, and am doing a 10 day blast of 500iu per day, stopping 4 days before the start of PCT
Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. My cycle ended last monday, all in all my cycle wound up being 15 weeks. Yesterday was my last day of doing my HCG blast of 500iu a day for ten days. I upped my Arimidex dose to 0.5 EOD for the time being, may keep that going through PCT as well. Monday I will start my PCT. Hair is still shedding a little bit, but I am hoping that will stop within the next few weeks. Really hoping to recover well. I know my cycle was a little bit longer than 12 weeks, but, I feel that the HCG on cycle and the HCG blast will really put me in a good position to recover fast.
I don’t think mixing adex with your pct drugs is a good choice, I may be wrong but look into that
It’s quite common for people to use low dose (like REALLY low dose) aromasin during PCT. If I remember rightly nolva lowers the effectiveness of adex. Probably won’t be too much of an issue anyway because if you’re using an AI during PCT you’d want the dose to be tiny anyway…
How much did you end up gaining as of the start of your PCT? Solid log, definitely been an interesting read!
Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. I am three weeks into PCT and everything seems to be going fine. Still able to get it up and libido is still there, although with week 3 coming to an end I feel like it is falling off a little bit. I have experienced a little bit of acne, but not too much. I will probably get blood work done a week after I am done taking clomid. My PCT has been Clomid 100/100/50 so far, and Nolva 40/40/20. I am thinking about dropping the Nolva and just doing clomid for two more weeks at 50mg per day. So my PCT would be final as something like
Clomid 100/100/50/50/50
Nolva 40/40/20
My hair has also stopped falling out, although I have not experienced any regrowth or rethickening. Hair loss was probably the only side effect that I didnt think about about before starting. After learning that the balding gene comes from the mothers side, and seeing that my grandfather and his brother are both going bald, it is safe to say I probably have the gene too. The more I think about it though the more comfortable with it I am. Ive been keeping my hair really short to make it not noticeable, and it is also less upkeep. The only thing I worry about with my hair falling out is just the way women would look at me, but I guess theres nothing wrong with a dude with nice muscles and a baseball cap either.
I would also like to add that I am very happy that I added in HCG into my cycle. I feel like it gave me a better/easier recovery so far, and I reccommend it to everyone. Ive learned a lot throughout this experience, and I do plan on starting another cycle mid august early september. I will probably just stick to test again, but maybe add in anavar this time instead of DBol. I really would like to try tren or deca, but the side effects with erectile dysfunction scare me way to much to touch the stuff.
The thought of just blasting and cruising once I jump back on in august, has also crossed my mind lately. I have thought about cycling from august until april, maybe doing 8-10 weeks of blast, and then cruise for 8-10 weeks with HCG, then blast again for another 8-10 weeks, and then start PCT again this time next year. I need to read more into it though, and gain a better understanding of what exactly a proper blast and cruise looks like. The only thing I worry about with that would be the fear of not being able to have kids later on down the road, since I am only 21 years old. I know it is not that uncommon for guys to run cycles that long though, or even longer, but recovery would also probably be a lot harder, and I would risk going on TRT at a young age, which has its pros and cons. At the end of the day though the only thing I worry about with that is not being able to have kids one day. We will see when the time comes, and how much money I save up, on what kind of cycle, and how long of a cycle I will be doing.
Thank you to all who have followed my log the whole way through, I hope youve enjoyed it, and maybe at least one person got a couple pieces of good information from it. Thanks guys.
The whole “balding gene coming from your mother’s father” thing is a complete myth.
It was cool to follow your log, and glad to hear you’re recovering well.
I’ve been on this site for a couple of years, researching and prepping to start, myself. I’ve waited for a long time (a lot longer than I really wanted to) so that I could follow logs -just like yours- to get some anecdotal info to go along with all the science and bro-science I’ve been reading.
Ultimately I decided that B&C seems the way to go. I’m doing it backwards compared to most, I guess, though. I started TRT a week ago. I’ll start my first blast after my 10 week labs, because after that the doc only test me once every 3 months.
Oh, BTW, CougarPride… anyone ever tell you that you look like Mac Miller?
Why is the balding gene from mothers father a myth?
Yeah, I would love to blast and cruise. But I really do want kids one day so; maybe after a couple of those I will blast and cruise. I can slowly start to feel my libido dropping. Getting erections isnt a problem, but I am hardly ever in the mood anymore.
And I have had like one or two people tell me that lol. I could never see it though
A lot of pros have kids, I don’t think it’s as big a deal as a lot of people think, at least I hope!
[quote]eatliftsleep wrote:
A lot of pros have kids, I don’t think it’s as big a deal as a lot of people think, at least I hope! [/quote]
What is major cause of infertility? Genetic factor or abuse usage of aas?
My TRT doc told me that they always recommend new patients to freeze some sperm if you definitely want to have kids, but they have patients that are on TRT for years, then come off just to have a child, and can conceive no problem. Even have had a few knock up their ladies ON therapy.
[quote]eatliftsleep wrote:
A lot of pros have kids, I don’t think it’s as big a deal as a lot of people think, at least I hope! [/quote]
it might not be, but it still scares me too much to blast and cruise
[quote]gigomoravac wrote:
[quote]eatliftsleep wrote:
A lot of pros have kids, I don’t think it’s as big a deal as a lot of people think, at least I hope! [/quote]
What is major cause of infertility? Genetic factor or abuse usage of aas?[/quote]
I honestly would have to say both. But if you’re blasting and cruising I would imagine you’d have to really lower your dosages if not come off for a brief period and do some sort of semi extreme pct. Again, this is just me speculating as I haven’t really looked into it yet
According to my doc- If I decide I want to have children, they will take me off Test injections completely, then blast HcG to wake my Leydig cells back up. And I stay off until conception, then jump right back on.
Plus the is always the option to freeze sperm