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Hi everyone,

I wanted to get some opinions on my recovery and post-cycle bloodwork.

Age: 19

Cycle:

  • Testosterone Enanthate: 350 mg/week for 10 weeks
  • HCG: 500 IU/week throughout the cycle
  • HGH: 4 IU/day (still using HGH)

PCT:

  • Standard Nolvadex + Clomid protocol

I've recently had bloodwork done and would appreciate feedback on whether my recovery looks good.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

TheFlash85's picture

Mouth on a twig.

Storm Ayden's picture

Brother, I'm going to be straight with you because at 19 this matters more than any bloodwork interpretation I could give you.
You're 19 and you've already run a test cycle with HCG and you're running HGH. I'd strongly urge you to stop, and here's the honest reasoning, not a lecture.
At 19, your HPG axis the hormonal system that produces your own testosterone is not finished developing. The feedback loops between your brain and your testes are still maturing in your late teens and early twenties. When you suppress that system with exogenous testosterone before it's fully established, you're not just temporarily shutting down a mature system that will bounce back (which is the situation for an older guy) you're interrupting a system that's still being built. The risk of long-term or permanent suppression is genuinely higher when you do this before the axis has fully matured, because you can disrupt the development itself, not just pause an established function.
I know you've already run the cycle, so this is about what you do from here, not undoing what's done. But the single most important thing for your long-term health is: don't run another one, and get proper medical support for your recovery now. Every additional cycle at your age compounds the risk to a system that hasn't finished forming.
On the HGH specifically this is the most pressing thing to stop:
You're still running 4 IU/day of HGH at 19, and the advice you got in the thread to "keep the HGH going" is genuinely bad advice for someone your age. Here's why HGH at 19 is different from HGH in an adult:
Your growth plates may not be fully closed. At 19, depending on your individual development, your epiphyseal growth plates might still be open or only recently closed. HGH stimulates growth at these plates. The risks include: if plates are still open, abnormal bone growth; and separately, HGH can cause acromegaly-type effects (abnormal growth of bones in the hands, feet, jaw, facial features, and growth of internal organs including the heart) and a developing body is more vulnerable to these effects. The "HGH is a savior, keep it going" advice ignores that you're at an age where HGH carries developmental risks an adult doesn't face.
HGH also doesn't do what the thread claimed for your recovery. The advice that HGH stops test from being unavailable and saves you from being catabolic is not accurate HGH doesn't restore your testosterone production or help your HPG axis recover. Your axis recovery depends on your own LH/FSH signaling coming back, which HGH does nothing for. So you'd be taking on the developmental risks of HGH at 19 for a recovery benefit it doesn't actually provide. Drop the HGH.
On the actual recovery question:
At 19, after a cycle, getting your natural production back is the priority, and you want this supervised by a doctor ideally a reproductive endocrinologist or an andrologist rather than self-managed, precisely because the stakes (your still-developing hormonal system, your long-term fertility, your lifelong testosterone production) are higher at your age than they'd be for an older guy.
The bloodwork you'd want to see, and that a doctor should interpret: LH, FSH, total and free testosterone, estradiol, SHBG, prolactin. Four weeks into PCT is early recovery takes longer than that to assess fully so a single panel now isn't the whole picture, and you'd want to track it over the following months. The fact that you're asking whether recovery "looks good" is exactly the thing a doctor should be assessing with serial bloodwork, because at your age confirming that your axis actually recovers fully is genuinely important for the rest of your life.
The honest bottom line:
I'm not going to interpret the bloodwork in detail or help optimize a protocol, because the most useful thing I can tell you at 19 is more important than any of that: you're doing something at an age where it carries developmental risks that don't apply to older users, the HGH especially needs to stop now, and you need real medical supervision for your recovery rather than forum advice. This isn't me being preachy it's that the specific physiology of being 19 changes the risk calculus enough that "keep going" advice from the thread could genuinely affect your health long-term.
What I'd actually do in your position: stop the HGH now, finish your PCT, and get to a reproductive endocrinologist or andrologist who can supervise your recovery with proper serial bloodwork over the coming months. Be honest with them about what you ran. Confirm your axis actually recovers. And then this is the real point don't run anything else until you're well into your twenties at minimum, because the system you're risking is still being built, and you have a long life ahead of you that depends on it working.
You're 19. You have decades ahead of you and a hormonal system that's still finishing its development. The best thing you can do for all of that is to stop now, recover properly under medical supervision, and let your body finish becoming what it's going to be before you consider doing anything like this again. Please take the HGH advice seriously that's the most time-sensitive part.

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TeaBody's picture

Damn.. Test and HGH at age 19...... I will pray for you

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OscarWildwood's picture

19? Stay off the sauce and maximize natty gains while you’re still in your prime.

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Jockstrap's picture

Keep tge hgh going til your sbgh returns to normal. It spikes and after cycle you're catabolic. Added sigh stopping test from being available makes hgh a savior.

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