If You Have Had Surgery, How Long Did You Wait Before Your Next Cycle?

[Stryker24]

Would love to hear feedback. I'm about four and a half weeks post hip replacement. Not sure when I can lift upper body heavy again but also itching to do another cycle.

 

[td]

Depending on your age, you could run HRT with some select peptides now to help facilitate healing now.

If you want to run a "cycle," you'll get the most out of it when you can train again. Your medical professionals should be able to provide guidance on when you can safely train again.

 

[Fa Seeshus]

As td said, spend the money on gh and healing peptides on top of a maintenance dose of test. Make sure you don't zero your estrogen... you need that for bone repair. I like ralox as it actually helps with collagen and bone and doesn't eliminate estro.

I tried to run a cycle fairly soon after a quad tendon repair and honestly it made thinks feel tighter and worse. Got better recovery going back to just the peps and maintenance test for a bit. Maybe the gear was lowering my cortisol levela too much, dunno.

I would wait 3 more months before cranking it with hard androgens.

 

[hawkmoon]

When I had my quad rupture I stayed on 300mg the whole time.

I didn't do a cycle e.g. 600mg or more until I could actually train hard, as I feel the AAS are there to facilitate and optimize maximum gym effort and food intake.
If I cannot perform those two first, increased AAS is pointless. It was a good 6+ months that I recall.

 

[RepZZ]

Just finished rotator cuff surgery, using peptides/GH and 200mg Test only until I can get back. This gives body a break too and keep libido up.

 

[Stryker24]

A buddy had knee surgery and was using I think 500mg test and was cleared for light duty (,Border Patrol) and his first day back went south. Turns out he has a pulmonary embolism. That is my concern

 

[Splitzz]

I’d wait until fully recovered. If you can’t push yourself, progress will be minimal.

 

[gib68sg]

As others have stated, staying on TRT will be fine. My most recent surgery (August), with another unfortunately seemingly imminent, I have waited until I was fully healed and ready to push again to push the doses. No reason to be on a gram of test and whatever else if you’re relegated to sitting in bed IMO

 

[the.bandit]

I've had multiple orthopedic surgeries from shoulders, to knees, to spinal, to hand, elbows, etc (starting to sound like a song) and as others have stated, TRT and functional/tendon & ligament training works best with your PT till you are at least at 80%, but waiting till completely cleared to train is best.
You'd be surprised just what can go wrong with just one part of the kinetic chain out of sync, even if you feel it's unrelated to upper body training. If you add in higher doses of gear, your recovery could go south fast for too many reasons to get into.
Good luck and a speedy recovery.

 

[Stryker24]

I've had multiple orthopedic surgeries from shoulders, to knees, to spinal, to hand, elbows, etc (starting to sound like a song) and as others have stated, TRT and functional/tendon & ligament training works best with your PT till you are at least at 80%, but waiting till completely cleared to train is best.
You'd be surprised just what can go wrong with just one part of the kinetic chain out of sync, even if you feel it's unrelated to upper body training. If you add in higher doses of gear, your recovery could go south fast for too many reasons to get into.
Good luck and a speedy recovery.

I'm not looking to go crazy. Would like to get back to 400mg test. Don't want to put together a proper cycle til I'm cleared to lift heavy with upper body. My test use wouldn't surpass 750-800mg. But probably not more than 600mg I'm thinking. Wanted to run Dbol and EQ but thinking maybe just run Winstrol inject. EQ I know really hikes up RBCs and Dbol I'm thinking I should maybe wait on using, Idk yet. Deca in place of EQ, it shoots up my BP, so Deca is out. Makes me break out with Bacme as well.I appreciate the input on this fellas

 

[the.bandit]

I'm not looking to go crazy. Would like to get back to 400mg test. Don't want to put together a proper cycle til I'm cleared to lift heavy with upper body. My test use wouldn't surpass 750-800mg. But probably not more than 600mg I'm thinking. Wanted to run Dbol and EQ but thinking maybe just run Winstrol inject. EQ I know really hikes up RBCs and Dbol I'm thinking I should maybe wait on using, Idk yet. Deca in place of EQ, it shoots up my BP, so Deca is out. Makes me break out with Bacme as well.I appreciate the input on this fellas

My opinion is that if I'm not 100%, especially post surgery, then using higher dosages (over TRT) is not necessary and could actually be counter-productive.
Hip replacement is a fairly significant surgery and the whole body needs time to adjust to the change.

There are a number of medical complications that can occur during your recovery, which should stress keeping the body as close to a natural healing (homeostatic) state as possible.

The time it takes to get back to normal can be the worst part of recovering, but the possibility of destroying the work that was done or having other complications is far worse than waiting till you are 100%

Believe me, having a major orthopedic surgery and then fucking it up from impatience sucks... I've been there and had it happen to me. I had to have a second knee surgery from me fucking up my first knee surgery, which came from me being impatient.

All that extra time and money wasted because I couldn't be patient. Lesson learned.

That's just my opinion/advice and free advice is worth what you pay for it.

 

[TrippplePPP]

They say it takes about 3 months for scar tissue to form around the implant which provides lesser chance for dislocation following your surgery. I would give it a good 3-6 months before upping your dose and lifting like before.

 

[retrofuturex]

man a hip replacement is no joke... i totally get the itch to get back under the bar but four weeks is still super early in the healing process. if you jump on a cycle now you might end up feeling way stronger than your actual joint can handle and that’s a recipe for a total disaster. honestly id just stick to some light isolation stuff and focus on the pt for a few more months before you start pushing the heavy weight or the gear again. better to wait a bit longer than to ruin a brand new hip by being too impatient lol. stay safe bro!

 

[buck]

Depends on the surgury. For my vasectomy i didn't break stride. For things like spine or shoulder replacement i waited till everything heal( i was on TRT the whole time) for real training to begin. But was back in the gym in a week doing what i could as that is what i do for rehab. The cycle came when i was sure that i wouldn't screw up the surgeries from to much weights being pushed. My body tells me what it is capable of. If i choose to listen to it!

 

[Runner1032]

In the past year and an half I have had 2 knee surgeries and a labrum repair in my shoulder. I stayed on a TRT dose of test, 100mg deca, hgh, TB500, BPC-157. What I found to be the most important part of recovery though is keeping your nutrition on point and religiously doing your rehab exercises and stretches (no matter how dumb they may seem). A EMS unit and heating paid became my modalities of choice.

Be smart with it and most importantly, it is not about how fast you can recover, it's about well you can recover. Slow and smooth are fast in recovery.

 

[Stryker24]

My opinion is that if I'm not 100%, especially post surgery, then using higher dosages (over TRT) is not necessary and could actually be counter-productive.
Hip replacement is a fairly significant surgery and the whole body needs time to adjust to the change.

There are a number of medical complications that can occur during your recovery, which should stress keeping the body as close to a natural healing (homeostatic) state as possible.

The time it takes to get back to normal can be the worst part of recovering, but the possibility of destroying the work that was done or having other complications is far worse than waiting till you are 100%

Believe me, having a major orthopedic surgery and then fucking it up from impatience sucks... I've been there and had it happen to me. I had to have a second knee surgery from me fucking up my first knee surgery, which came from me being impatient.

All that extra time and money wasted because I couldn't be patient. Lesson learned.

That's just my opinion/advice and free advice is worth what you pay for it.

I appreciate you

 

[Stryker24]

Not doing an actual cycle til I'm cleared to lift heavy for upper body just some test for now. I appreciate the replies gentlemen.

 

[SouthernMuscle]

Depending on your age, you could run HRT with some select peptides now to help facilitate healing now.

If you want to run a "cycle," you'll get the most out of it when you can train again. Your medical professionals should be able to provide guidance on when you can safely train again.

 

[Flocci]

i spent 2 weeks off, went on 300 test 200 deca that i started the same week i got out of surgery. I was still training upperbody and did unilateral isolation work for legs after about a week.