Ok here are a few things I am trying to figure out:
1)Can there be just partial shut down of HTPA?
2) Have you seen any studies that indicate if HTPA recovery is
determined by the amount of steroid or by the type (androgen or anabolic)?
If you do 100mg/wk of cyp, will that totaly shut you down? What if it was 100mg of deca?
3) Have you seen studies or have you yourself compared blood test. levels before a cycle and after cycle (one usind clomid end of cycle and one without clomid end of cycle)?
I had my test levels checked before my last cycle, 350. My cycle was 4wks tren @ 100mg/day, along with 100mg/day winny, I then tapered the winny down. In wk 5 50mg/day, then wk 6 25mg/day, wk 7 40mg/day anavar, wk 8 20mg/day. I then did clomid 50/100/50. I then had my test levels tested 2wks after the clomid, it was 50. So this was 5wks after my 8 wk cycle. I just got the results back of another test that was performed 16 days after I had the test that was 50, it is now 216.
So what can be learned from this? Tapering doesn't work? Once you shut down, you are shut down until all steroids have left the body, even anabolics at low doses? That clomid really doesn't have that much of an effect or maybe it should have been taken 300mg day 1, then 100mg 10 days, then 50mg 10 days?
4)Can you conferm that HCG will help at the end of a cycle, or that it will only postpone recovery?
5)If you already have a naturally low test level, say 350, will you ever be able to keep the increased mass after you finish a cycle. A problem I have, I am 6'2", 201, about 13% bf. I've been traing since I was 18, but have had 4 shoulder sugeries, and 1 back sugery. So it has been off and on, but I was about 190 11% bf before I started AS use. I don't really want to get into my other cycles or diet, because I don't want to just have all of the same info posted that is already all over the boards, let's just say I have read it all. That's why I want to keep this to mostly about HTPA shutdown and recovery.
So, let me know what you think? I appreciate getting advice from someone who is also concerned with hard evidence. I have learned alot from everyone on these boards, but I feel there is still alot more to be learned, at least for me.
thanks
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