So I wanted to post my take re "dip your toes" in oral only cycle, with my blood and body comp differences. The data is not perfect because I spent a month doing unenhanced diet and weightlifting, and somewhere in there I introduced creatine before I started any anavar. After 4 weeks of natty training, then I went on 25mg anavar split two doses AM/PM. Mostly to assist in keeping muscle during my diet (And boy did it succeed in that, lost 10.5lb fat, gained 7.6 lean, though certainly a few lb of water from the creatine)

I took a blood test at week 1 started then after 4 weeks of diet and lifting I added in the anavar. At week 7, so 3 weeks post anavar only I took another blood draw. Kidney and Liver results were all normal before and after so I didnt bother posting them. Blood pressure fine before and after though I did get headaches a couple times.

Hormones and Lipids much different story. Oral only's are poitnless they said. Well I guess so at such suppressed T levels I felt pretty lame. I didn't check my estradiol after anavar but I bet it was low too since there was no T being metabolized into estradiol. Weirdly I could still get good work done in the gym but just did not feel good otherwise, sleep sucked, mood sucked. Libido was still ok but not as good. I figured I could probably rebound relatively quickly since my HPT axis was not complelely shut down, only substantially suppressed the HPT axis but I'm a greedy pig and I said fuck it, let me just get off the var and go on test. Week 9 injected 375mg test enanthate. That was yesterday. I'll check my hormones in a week and see if my estradiol is so elevated that I need to start an AI. Cognizant that my BF is not particularly low so aromatization may be something to mitigate. I have aromasin 25mg for that purposes. I dont want to crush my estrogen so I may have to do some adjustments.

Stopped anavar cycle, and started testosterone enanthate (375 mg first week, but probably will go to 250 mg, I only did 375 cause I fucked up an ampoule and didn't want to waste half the test). In meantime will also have to make changes to my diet to mitigate this cholesterol issue. I'll post updated blood work and body comp results as I do tests. Hopefully this info is useful for others.

Numbers:

Baseline Body Comp Week 1

180.8 lb
24.3% Body Fat
129lb lean tissue

Baseline Blood work Week 1

Testosterone Total 739 ng/dL
Estradiol 27 pg/mL
Prolactin 4.1 ng/mL
Testosterone Free 67.3 pg/mL
Testosterone Bioavailable 138.5 ng/dL
Albumin 4.5 g/dL
SHBG 55 nmol/L

HDL 54
LDL 144

Blood Work at Week 7 (after 3 weeks of anavar @25mg daily)

Testosterone Tole 97 ng/dL
SHBG 14 nmol/L
Testosterone Free 2.5 pg/mL
Albumin 4.8

HDL 25
LDL 233

Body Composition Week 8
178.2 lb
18.9% Body Fat
136.6

Week 1-4
Unenhanced Diet and Exercise

Week 5-8
25mg anavar only

Week 9
375mg Test enanthate

Week 10 (plan)
250 mg Test enanthate