Time till next Test Cycle?

[Buster]

Just finishing a 10 week 500mg a week of test eth.

Again, I feel so good when I am on the gear. I have done a lot of research on PCT and think I have a pretty good plan.
It is like loosing a new friend. I feel so much better on this being 40.

I will be looking into HRT but for now I want to know how much time I should wait to hit another 10 week cycle?

 

[Dad]

Good rule of thumb is twice the time yuo were on - so 20 weeks.

This gives the body a chance to fully normalize as it will take 56+ days just to completely clear the test, since it has a half-life of 8 days.

 

[mis_behaven69]

time ON should equel time OFF... ON ten weeks- OFF ten weeks

I pm'ed ya

 

[mis_behaven69]

Good rule of thumb is twice the time yuo were on - so 20 weeks.

This gives the body a chance to fully normalize as it will take 56+ days just to completely clear the test, since it has a half-life of 8 days.

if im not mistaken, TEST-E is a 10 day ester..

im 100% sure of that

 

[Buster]

Thanks for the reply ya'll!! I have an interesting dilema now on time.

There is a 10 week gap on the 2 opinions I just got. Since I am always learning, what should I do?

In reading some of Dad's posts to other new members he seems very conservative on gear usage.

Since I am 40 and plan HRT in the next 3 years or so I do want to work the building cycles as much as I can healthy!

Man, I am telling ya, being on Test at my age makes me think there should be more study into HRT with Test and HGH for men my age.
I FEEL so much better when on! Sex drive great, feeling full in my muscles, sleep better, skin better, more stamina, happier and so on. I dont get the anger or rage issues some guys guess. I have never experienced a "rage" episode, not one time.
Too bad there is not a natural testosterone booster with a shit to help balance instead of using exogenous test. I have tried some different ones all derivatives of Tribestan. None of them seem to work for me. Only the real deal.

 

[Dad]

Ten day ester, 8 day ester, this hardly matters - yuo're still looking at 6-7 half-lives to clear fully (clincally we calculate to 4-5).

Buster, just a word:
Most here seem to think HRT is 200 or more mg per week of test, meaning they don't understand the whole concept of HRT.

Yuor doc is going to give yuo a conservative physiologic dosing, meaning that we are trying to replace what the body normally produces. This means yuo'll most likely be started at 100 mg per week (at least in the U.S.), then have a blood test 8 weeks later or so to check both free and bound serum testosterone levels. If yuo fall into the middle of the normal range or somewhere close to it, it's very unlikley that yuor doc will up the dosage.

The good new is that yuo should feel good, and have no need for things like HCG or anti-estrogens. This will not, however, have yuo feeling and performing as if yuo were on a cycle. The people who think 200 mg and more is HRT are mistaken (yes, in RARE cases this is necessary, like AIDS/HIV patients and some statistical outliers in the normal population). Two hundred mg a week and more is simply a cycle.

 

[Buster]

Great info!! Thanks so much for the posts, very helpful!

Test is magic when aging.... Just magical.

I wonder if my insurance will cover it and my testing to establish my HRT dose.

Also, if you are on a cycle of say 500 mg a week can you still do this while in HRT? Or do you have to be done with gear for building when you go on a HRT dose for good.

Thanks again and I learn so much from you all.

 

[Dad]

Insurance usually covers this if yuo get a diagnosis of hypogonadism, in other words, low free and bound testosterone levels, and yuor doc prescribes HRT.

Yuo can certainly use extra test while on HRT; most likley yuo'll be prescribed test cyp, so more test is, well, just more test. Now, if yuo go to yuor doc for yuor blood check while on extra test or too soon after discontinuing the extra test, yuor test levels are going to be WAY above what the HRT would produce. Needless to say, yuor doc is NOT going to be happy and it's going to be very obviuos from yuor lab values that yuo've been "supplementing" with extra test.

 

[Buster]

Ok, makes total sense. I think I may just suppliment myself and have some bloodwork done. I am in the medical business and have plenty of doctor friends to evaluate them.

With everything I have learned here about on cycle and pct I will see how it goes. I am ending this cycle in one week and last time I had horrible ED after and I was using a decent pct but I supplemented HCG the whole cycle.
Used some Arimidex and Epistane and also had to take intermittent Nolva to control gyno.

So far everything has worked great.

I will be trying Tor for pct. Hope this works much better than last time (fingers crossed)