I’m going to get blood work today, did my first shot of week 8 yesterday, I might be overthinking this, should I wait 2 days after a shot to get blood work as one day after it might be elevated more than what is average ?
Also is it really necessary to fast the full 12-14 hours it recommends or is 8-10 enough? I’m getting the full panel, total t , free t, cholesterol , lipids, tsh, t3, t4, e2, liver etc…
AND last question, haha, I noticed it says not to ejaculate for 24 hours prior to the test , does it matter when taking exogenous test, I’m thinking not.
Should of got blood work done yesterday before shot. I always do a 12 hr fast if I am doing a full panel lab work. Finally, If you can make it a full 24hrs without pumping one out in one fashion or another, you are a better man than I.
I don’t have to get it today, my next shot is Thursday evening, so you think I should get the blood before the next shot then, tomorrow or even Thursday?
I only run TrT through my VA doc. He has always had lab work done/ordred for the morning of my shot. So I would go get lab work done, then come home and do my injection. Now that I am at every 6 months of getting labs with him, I can blast for 2-3 months and then get down to normal ranges before my next appt with him.
So, I had planned to run a 10 week cycle of 250mg a week and well , it turns out one vial didn’t cut it haha. I ran out of test with my first shot of week 9.
So, my balls have atrophied a little and I have HCG, can I run HCG twice or 3 times a week for the 2 weeks before starting PCT, like say HCG today , Friday, then next week, Monday , Wednesday , Friday and then start PCT the following Monday, 2 weeks after last shot of test.
Also, is it recommended with having run 250mg a week to do the standard 40/40/20/20 of Nolva or should it be 20/20/10/10.
Hcg 500iu twice a week should be fine. And pct for 250/w is the same as 500/w. Being shutdown is not a matter of degrees, it’s binary. Nolva 40/40/20/20 should be your plan.
The yuppie, just the man I wanted to hear from! Hey now I know to get 2 vials of test for the next cycle. Will do the HCG twice a week for the next 2 weeks then.
Overall not a bad cycle, not too many sides other than insomnia , sweating and red skin.
My diet was super clean , never had acne or anything, although yesterday to celebrate the end of the cycle I ate my first fast food burger and fries in 3 months.
Made some good gains, went from 190 to 211, also, don’t laugh , I was never able to bench 225, just couldn’t ever get there and now I’m getting a solid 5 reps , my bench is up like 35 -40 pounds , pretty much after 6 weeks I could bench like 40 pounds more than pre cycle.
TBH, most of the time, bench gains are as simple as fixing form not gear related. After getting my form checked and fixing simple mistakes I was able to push from 225 up to 265 in about 2 months. I have hit 295 for 3 reps. A lot of bench gains can be made by doing more Back work too. I only use TrT, nothing over 200mgs a week ever.
Yea for sure , I don’t cheat by pushing off the floor with my legs or arching my back, it’s pure chest , shoulders and arms pushing it up.
With that said I’m using the same form as before but can push significantly more weight than pre cycle, like 225 used to feel so heavy just taking it off the rack, now it feels like 185 used to feel.
Allowing heavier lifts isn’t just about powerlifting its also about building more muscle and working towards hypertrophy and also not putting the wrong kind of strain on shoulders.
But what do I know I rarely do that overrated exercise anyway
No you’re right about that, it definitely does put unnecessary strain on the shoulders to take the bar all the way down to the chest .
Quick question, I went to a needle exchange to get bacto water and they gave me these plastic ampules and said " this is the same stuff in an IV, you can inject that.
Today I looked at them and it says ,. STERILE - NOT FOR INJECTION, Sterile Water Inhalation Solution, usp
Lil blue tubes with a twist off plastic piece? It’s just sterile water or sometimes saline water it will say which kind. Either way its safe for injection junkies use that shit to mix thier dope with and slam it IV.
Your not gonna get bac water from a needle exchange.
Yea it’s the blue tubes , I’m going to use it for hcg mixing water , it only comes with 1ml of water for 5000iu, I’m thinking of mixing it with 4ml so I can shoot a little less than a quarter of an ml to get close to 500iu
Wouldn’t use sterile water if you can just buy bac water instead. Sterile water is good for wound irrigation and (as you said) inhalation. You could inject it, buuuuut you only get one body and that’s a real stupid reason to mess it up. Better to be safe than sorry.
Wow, just got my bloodwork, this is about 55 hours after my first shot of week 8, fasted for roughly 12-14 hours, took at 10am, WOW, never expected my test to be this high on 250mg a week, well at least I know my source and gear are legit.
Hematocrit just outside the normal range, cause for concern?
Also noticed bilirubin is flagged as high although it is .1 outside of the normal range.
My E2 is waaay too high, should I bust out the arimidex? .125 ? I was feeling really shitty this last week and suspected high estrogen, well anyway without further ado, here are the results:
Edit - I freaked out about my estrogen levels but after crunching the numbers it seems normal, my total test is up around 450% from pre cycle and my estrogen about 500%, so its balanced
