Cycle opinions

Theone233 · Mar 16, 2026

AllLoadedUp said:
That's what I am hoping to get. How "high" was too "high"? How far out of range? For instance last summer when I was running 500 Test and 400 Npp. My Hematocrit was slightly elevated. Range on the test was "38.5%-50%". Well mine was 55.3%. So it was elevated but not by a lot.

I will pull up my blood work and find out for sure. It was last September. I had even donated blood a week prior. I only donate once to twice a year for reference.

AllLoadedUp · Mar 17, 2026

Theone233 said:
I will pull up my blood work and find out for sure. It was last September. I had even donated blood a week prior. I only donate once to twice a year for reference.

Thanks. I appreciate that. I guess everyone has an idea of "too high". It all relative. Obviously if 50% is the max range and yours is 70%. That would be I think "too high". Lol.

AllLoadedUp · Mar 17, 2026

pimpman said:
I’m 54 and running 600 test 300 eq
I started less than two months ago. but I started with 600 test 400 eq worked up to 800 test 600 eq. Then back down to what I’m at right now. And I will stay at this dose till the end.

My blood work right before I start my hemoglobin was 17.2 highest can be is 17.1 so I wasn’t worried. My hematocrit was 50.5 which is in range

I only worry with the eq was the anxiety. Because I take med for anxiety. And the few times I’ve tried eq the anxiety was bad. BUT this time I said I’m not going to entertain the anxiety part. Because way back in the days it was not a side. Ever since people started saying it caused anxiety now everyone thinks they get anxiety.

And so far no anxiety at all. Along with the Reta I’m very lean and now veins are coming out that I’m like wtf and it’s just the beginning. I don’t like being this lean either I do like that I have abs and every time you take your shirt off everyone has to look. Man and female. But I like being bulked up. But surprisingly everyone that knows me for years in and out of the gym say I look much better and still big I don’t get the big part when weight is low. I just go crazy when I wear my clothes now and my pants are so loose on legs and waist and need a belt to not show my underwear lol. My shirts are loose too. I don’t know I’m just gonna go buy new wardrobe and take it from there.

So I like the look but just need to get use to it.

So I say try the test and eq if you don’t like the look. You can always go back to what you where

You and I sound like kindred spirits.

. At the beginning of last year I was like 8 months post rotator cuff surgery. So I started to hit it harder. That's when I decided to do the Test/NPP combo. Now bare in mind I had only done basically TRT for the last 4 yrs. I had not really run a "cycle" in that long. So there was the "rebound" from the surgery and the "rebound" from having only done low dose Test for a few years. Well I got up to 275lbs. I decided once it started to warm up I wanted to get "leaner". Plus I had begun to do cardio regularly. So all I did was simply drop one shake from my diet. That cut 1000 calories from my diet right off the bat.

As I have said before whenever I do Npp it makes veins pop out all over my arms. Not sure why that is because its really more of a "mass" builder. Long story short between the drop in calories and cardio I dropped down to 260 by the summer. People in the gym and people at work were making comments just because my arms were so veiny. A guy I work with said " are you getting bigger"? Ha ha. I was actually 15lbs lighter. But those veins really give that illusion. The funny part was like you I could tell my shirts were getting looser. And that really fucks with your head. Ha ha ha. You're like "oh no I'm shrinking". Lol. I wear a XXXL. But they were getting looser on me. The thing is if I tried to buy a XXL and wear that it would be way too small. Its like this "in between" size. If only they made a XXL-1/2 size.

Its so funny how those things will mess with our head. And when people make comments to me about my "size" I always just think "what the fuck are they talking about". My idea of "big" is Mr. Olympia. Lol. But guys like us our mindsets are so far removed from what the "ordinary people" think its not even funny. We just live in an alternate universe. And yes I'm just gonna try the Test/EQ combo. Like I said I've never really run it so I just want to see what happens.

pimpman · Mar 17, 2026

AllLoadedUp said:
You and I sound like kindred spirits. . At the beginning of last year I was like 8 months post rotator cuff surgery. So I started to hit it harder. That's when I decided to do the Test/NPP combo. Now bare in mind I had only done basically TRT for the last 4 yrs. I had not really run a "cycle" in that long. So there was the "rebound" from the surgery and the "rebound" from having only done low dose Test for a few years. Well I got up to 275lbs. I decided once it started to warm up I wanted to get "leaner". Plus I had begun to do cardio regularly. So all I did was simply drop one shake from my diet. That cut 1000 calories from my diet right off the bat.

As I have said before whenever I do Npp it makes veins pop out all over my arms. Not sure why that is because its really more of a "mass" builder. Long story short between the drop in calories and cardio I dropped down to 260 by the summer. People in the gym and people at work were making comments just because my arms were so veiny. A guy I work with said " are you getting bigger"? Ha ha. I was actually 15lbs lighter. But those veins really give that illusion. The funny part was like you I could tell my shirts were getting looser. And that really fucks with your head. Ha ha ha. You're like "oh no I'm shrinking". Lol. I wear a XXXL. But they were getting looser on me. The thing is if I tried to buy a XXL and wear that it would be way too small. Its like this "in between" size. If only they made a XXL-1/2 size.

Its so funny how those things will mess with our head. And when people make comments to me about my "size" I always just think "what the fuck are they talking about". My idea of "big" is Mr. Olympia. Lol. But guys like us our mindsets are so far removed from what the "ordinary people" think its not even funny. We just live in an alternate universe. And yes I'm just gonna try the Test/EQ combo. Like I said I've never really run it so I just want to see what happens.

I think you will like that combo