I live in Texas,US. In 2012 I was visiting India for 9 months and I decided to do a 12 week 500mg test cycle at the age of 19…I was one of those ‘seasonal’ kids and not even a consistent one…
I didn’t do a proper PCT. I only took 40mg nolva/daily for 4 weeks after 12th week of test. NO HCG.
EVEN WORSE NO AROMOTAZE INHIBITOR DURING CYCLE!!
You already know the results lol.
But how high was my estrogen I’m wondering during this cycle of 500mg/test per week with no AI? I obviously never did blood work during.
I’m randomly asking cause Im now 26 and lift consistently a little less than 2 years and can’t believe how stupid I was. Hell even now I’m still learning. Just last week decided to start timing sets at the 40 seconds for time under tension response.
I’m also asking cause I was very bloated and depressed with low mood, sensitive, and overall shitty. So I’m sure estrogen kind of played a role.
It doesn’t matter at this point does it?
Everyone responds differently.
Aside from the timing this is close enough to a proper pct.
The only way to “know” how high your estrogen was, was if you had gotten blood work. That old saying about everyone is different is accurate. Provided you weren’t carrying an extra 20 something pounds of water and had gyno that stayed then I would think it wasn’t so high that you caused serious long term ramifications. Everyone bloats on injectable hormones to some degree and most bloat or retain significantly more water on long estered wet compounds like test. Plenty of guys never use an AI not bother with PCT and actually never have issues although I would never recommend that. The PCT you did do was as iron pointed out close enough that you probably had an ultimately successful recovery.
Again provided you didn’t end up with actual long term gyno and your dick still works then just chalk it up to a foolish adolescent mistake that you learned from. We all have plenty of those.