For Beginners, My Experience After My 1st Cycle of Test.

[Terax]

Op as long as you now know what all your mistakes were. Your second cycle will go better. But i have to ask, you know the way you tapered was a huge mistake right?

Actually I don't. Why was the tapering off bad?

[michael30]

Actually I don't. Why was the tapering off bad?

Well one reason is when we introduce exogenous testosterone (test. From outside the body) it shuts down our own natural production. Our body naturally produces "around" 70mg of test aweek. When you tappered down to 50mg then to 25mg for 3 weeks you were suppressing your natural levels for a dose of less then half of what you produce naturally. Which would be very counter productive. Also as long as you take exogenous testosterone your body will not start producing its own. So that makes tapering not very necessary. If you do want to continue to taper off a cycle i personally would never go below a trt dose hope that helps.

[Terax]

Op as long as you now know what all your mistakes were. Your second cycle will go better. But i have to ask, you know the way you tapered was a huge mistake right?

Actually I don't. Why was the tapering off bad?

Thanks for the info. I was actually searching for a tapering thread while you were posting (& had to do a bunch of 'Welcomes' in the New Guy forum so I could post a link). Lesson learned.


This thread details also why tapering is a mistake & pretty much says the same thing....

Tapering Question