Hey kids, Ed here with a little cycling talk.
So you are nearing the end of your cycle. You planned on a 12 week cycle, but it just felt so damn good, you are finally throwing around big weights, and people are looking at you different, asking you what the hell you are taking. You of course lie and tell them it's all in the kitchen baby! Shit is feeling good, feeling right so you make the executive decision to take the cycle another week. What the hell, it's just another week. That week ends and you think to yourself, hey I know guys that cycle 15 weeks. Can't hurt.. So you run that cycle a little longer. Finally fearing that you my have fried your nuts you go off cycle. You are a good boy so you have your nolvadex, Clomid, aromasin, and hcg on hand and you are ready to go. The first week in to pct you are feeling fine, the second week you aren't feeling too bad and you start thinking, hey, maybe I didn't fry my nuts! The third week rolls around and you are still doing pretty good and all of a sudden it hits. Oh shit, my test is gone.
That night your lady friend starts getting frisky and you think "I'll be damned if I'm not going to try. You do what you can to try to muster up some sort of boner and after a couple of pumps your weiner decides to take a break. You apologize to your lady, she says: that's alright... And you flip on A shitty rerun of Seinfield. This goes on for about a week and you think to yourself Oh no! I fried my nuts! Holy shit maybe I shouldn't have rAn all that tren on my first cycle. (You know what I'm talking about don't you.) and you start to worry that you have just turned those 23 year old nuts into trt nuts.
This kids is where you make the biggest mistake of your life. You make the decision that it's not worth it. To hell with it, I'm going to blast cruise. It's a life long committment. Besides how can you take another week of not having a boner? The lady friend is starting to worry!
This is where I step in and say: Don't be a dumbass, your nuts will come back, just give it time! Remember the old "time on + pct =time off? There is a reason that is so long. Let the nuts come back to size, let them heal and be active again. Don't kill them with a trt decision. For me, I notice at about 2 months into Pct that my nuts are really strong again. My blood tests are throwing numbers in the 800's and I'm starting to feel good again. However, my free test is still slightly low.
I'm a firm believer that this is where that extra time comes in, to restore that free test. Time on + pct = time off. If you ran a three month cycle you are really looking at around four months of down time. Holy shit Ed that's way too much! I know kids but it's way too worth it.
Sometimes while living in the now we forget about the future. You need those nuts bros. Save them as long as you can. What if you decide to have kids? Me, when I was a dumbass running a cycle at 23... Hell no I didn't want kids. Well guess what, at thirty I did.
What if you get thrown in the joint? You aren't exactly a real law abiding citizen now are you.
Bullshit Ed I'm a saint! Sorry kids, That box under your bed full of gear is a felony. Do you really want to be in prison with shitty testosterone levels? Do you really want to find yourself sitting on the lap of some big black dude (who has super high test levels) as he brushes and braids your hair and calls you princess?
I don't think so. Well that would go for most of us here besides Monster 666.
Kids shit happens, what if you find yourself all grown up with little kids and you lose your job? Think you'll spend precious money on gear and let your kids starve? Probably not.
I guess the point that I'm trying to make is be smart, cycle, and think about the future. You never know what's coming and there may be a time that testosterone replacement therapy is not an option. Instead of that shitty week to two weeks of zero test, that becomes a permanent situation. Do you really want to be slapping on the penis pump and cock ring to get the job done?
Hell no you don't.
Kids, be good to your nuts. Don't cycle too long, make sure you run an aggressive pct. ( I actually like a five week course but by no means is that a standard, just works well for me) and give those nuts a chance to heal up and be good to you again. Talk to any Trt guy in here that's been on trt since they were young and I bet every single one of them will tell you that they wish they had been smarter about it.
Be smart kids, be patient, your nuts will come back because they love you. Keep kicking ass in the gym, even though you don't feel like superman this will help bring the nuts back as well. Eat well, sleep well, and remember that Ed loves you and wants you to be healthy.

All my love,
No homo
Ed