First cycle/on cycle questions
I started my first cycle ever on jan 25th, I am doing only test cyp at 500 per week. I take arimidex eod .5 to prevent gyno and bloat.
Of course I didnt feel any effects for about 3 or 4 weeks. I have had a great increase in strenth, minimal increase in muscle size and tone.
There were a couple of weeks where I felt pretty good, but now I feel lethargic and uninterested. I am still going to the gym every day but I dont seem to have the drive I thought I would.
I am 41 years old, have been working out daily (5 or 6 days a week) for 2 years. I work out hard, and I work out for strength and size. My body fat is 17%. My diet is really good. I take in plenty of protein. I am now in my 7th week and I thought there would be more positive effects by now. I will say that my testicles are shrinking, I have some oily skin with some acne. My libido however has actually went down drasticly since the start of this cyle. I should also add that my natural test levels prior to starting this cycle were very low, in the 200's.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Thank you Darkside six. I did exactly what you said and it is all good. Back to feeling good and making sweet gains again. Much appreciated.
Nice to hear !! thats the importance of keeping estrogen levels constant,most poeple that use AI from start of cycle usually feel like shit at mid stage, imo only use AI as and when you get the itch on them nips!!
A common misperception is that you need to eliminate ALL estrogen during a cycle. I was the same way. I dropped my AI and what do ya know? My libido went up, and I had much better results. I did this on my first cycle ever. Since then, I have never needed it and my cycles have all been great. Darkside six had it right!
p.s. it's a tricky thing and trial and error is needed. I would drop it completely and add small amounts as needed though.
tread-mDarksidesix hooked you up! Even at your bf you can kill estrogen and as he says, your effects are exactly the result of that. The easiest thing to check as he says by dropping the AI and checking. If not feeling the effect soon then you come back in and repost what happened and what you did and we go from there. I suspect you are going to feel it soon though in a good way.
DarksideSixCould be a couple of things but I will go out on a limb and say that your Estrogen levels are actually probably too low. Stop taking the Adex for a week and see if that helps. When E levels drop to low your libido goes away and thats when lethargy sets in. What kind of pct do you have planned out?
I would deffinately consider some kind of HCG blast in there at some point.
I have nolvadex for pct. Have been thinking about hcg so I will give that a try on cycle. I will cut out the adex for a bit as well. Thanks for the help man.
DarksideSixNolva is good, but i would definately run clomid with it at 50/50/50/50. Clomid is cheap and easy to come by and IMO better than nolva, but i always run them together.
Thanks, and please forgive my ignorance but could you elaborate on 50/50/50/50? What does that mean?
DarksideSixsorry, 50mg every day for for weeks. nolva at 40/40/40/40
No1It means 50mg every day for 4 weeks