I’m new to the sight and like most people I like to know more information before trying anything new. I have been on trt for 1.5 years and my levels stay around 900-1,000 taking 200mg of Test C 2 times a week. If I go without it for 7 days my levels will go to 300. I do blood work through the doctors and everything looks good. I’m wanting to do a cycle of Test E 250mg and 200mg deca 2 times a week to gain more muscle mass. I’m 34 years old and 5’8” height. I train 5 days a week in the gym. And I take creatine daily. People in the gym are telling me to take more 450mg of Test and keep the Deca at 200mg to avoid some of the side effects. Any advice from anyone experienced?
Test/deca is a great cycle for mass/strength. You would be fine on the 250test/200deca per week for a first cycle. Diet and training are gonna be the biggest driver in growth.
How close together are your labs for the Dr? Deca will show in your blood work as very high test so if you don’t give yourself enough time to clear the deca, get your test levels back down and fix anything else wrong with bloods the Dr will certainly have some questions for you.
The dr. Labs has been every 3 months in the past but I have recently changed doctors and my first labs showed my test levels at 1066 due to just taking a shot 2 days prior. I tried explaining that to the doctor and he lowered my dose and ordered labs 30 days latter which was on 11/20/24 and I stopped my test shot 7 days prior to the labs and my test levels was 310. I’m hoping to go back to every 3 months on the labs if not longer. Is there a good time frame I need to stop the test/deca cycle before labs?
IMO 3 months in between bloods is not great to run a cycle especially with longer acting compounds. Gonna be hard to run a proper cycle and get everything back in check for bloodwork.
You could run TestP and NPP alongside your TRT dose but your gonna be pinning ED or EOD for 8 weeks. Even this would be cutting it close to 12 week bloods.
Plot it out.
Good information. Thank you for the help!