For those of you who don't want to to run more than TRT testosterone levels, how do you cycle?

[Duraclear]

Well said, you cover a lot of useful points of experience here. Sensible approach.

That amped feeling and/or even slight reduction in sleep quality if all else ok/ reasonable are in my opinion other side effects worth taking notice of if your risk tolerance is lower. My HRV gets flatlined and thats a reflection of that amped up/ constant sympathetic tone and its absolutely not healthy. Essentially a form of chronic stress, with cardiac and other implications.

Currently waiting to notice if i get any joint effects from deca ... nothing yet so it may be similar to you.

If you ever get to your microdose of tren experiment keep us updated.

Thank you.

I agree with you. That "amped" feeling definitely feels like some CNS overstimulation, and I agree that it can't have good health implications. I start feeling it slightly even at 150mg/wk.

I can't even fathom how guys do 500 or even 1000+mgs for weeks or even months on end. They're definitely made of different stuff than me. Wish I could do it, but on the other hand, maybe it's for the best that I can't.

I hope your deca experiment works out for you. I will be working on getting that tren probably in the next couple of weeks. I'm a little anxious because I already responded poorly to another 19-nor, but hopefully the low dose should mitigate things, and I'll be having someone monitor my behavior this time to let me know if I'm getting a little weird.

 

[Duraclear]

For hematocrit, lab results say 39.4 to 51.1 is "desirable." That seems oddly specific. I last tested at 58.6%. Last time I tried to give blood the Red Cross did their test and wouldn't touch me. Another place that does not care did the test and the tech told me that she could see my blood is "really thick." So I guess, absent contrary data, I want it in that desirable range.

I have been told I can reduce it by drinking lots more water and injecting daily as opposed to twice weekly. I have also read that a higher RBC count is good because more red blood cells means more O2 to my muscles.

What do you think are "desirable" or at least acceptable levels?

Yeesh. I'm not normally one to freak out too much about hematocrit, but 58.6 is quite high. I don't think there are many scenarios in which that level is desirable unless you are a serious endurance athlete or living at very high altitude. It doesn't sound like either apply to you.

The research isn't entirely clear that high HCT is causative for thrombosis, but current thinking is that atherogenesis (arterial plaque buildup) is at least partly hematological. The idea is that you don't want thick, sludgy blood hanging out around inflamed endothelia (artery walls) and depositing crud.

I'm not you, but if I was, I'd stop everything I was doing right now and get that number down and then go back to the drawing board. I would drop my test dose to 100mg test/wk with no other substances and take 40-ish mgs Telmisartan/day, 8,000FU Nattokinase, and drink a ton of water until that number got down to like 52 (but preferably lower), and then maybe start conservatively upping the test dose/adding additional compounds.

As Badsanta also noted, I'd get checked for sleep apnea as well. But first and foremost, I'd be aggressively trying to get that number down. I would also aggressively ignore Todd Lee. But like I said, that's just me.