For anyone still following this thread, I finally got cleared to lift at 100% of my capacity this past Thursday, the 14th. for the past 6 weeks I have been working out not more than 60%. Enough to test the eye, but not enough to really screw it up if something went wrong. I started my TRT back up on the same day that I was cleared at 180 mg/wk and don’t plan to blast anything any time soon.
Total time off gear was 13 weeks and total time from injury date until I was cleared to lift again was almost 15 weeks. I think if I had dropped the gear the same day as the injury and gone to the doc immediately it would have been more like 11-12 weeks total down time. But hindsight is 20/20 right?
Overall I don’t think I lost too much from coming off gear, which is great since my test level was at 250 (average range 264-916). My strength (obviously) isn’t as good as it was at the end of my last cycle, but I kept a lot more of it than I thought I would. I was hitting 385, beltless on deadlifts yesterday, and that was flying about as well as 405 with a belt at the end of my last comp prep. I took this time of not being able to lift weights to work on my mobility, motor patterns, and technique which is also starting to pay dividends in the strength department. At the end of all of this, I am hoping to be able to say that getting injured was the best thing that has ever happened to me with respect to lifting.