Stayin on 9 months?

[TooPowerful4u]

What are the dangers in stayin on for 9 months, with a bridge of 10mg dbol for 6 weeks at end of 3rd month. Has anyone stayed on 9 months and still recovered? Would HCG administered at times throughout the period make a difference and possibly help me avoid permanent shutdown?

[IAMHUGE]

I stayed on for 12 months. I made a big mistake. I will never do it again. I will run my next cycle for about 16 weeks max.

[2horns]

What was the mistake exactly?

[GearTripper]

my cycles tend to last in the range of 16-20 weeks tops... but i have no chance to ever recover so i might consider different bridges to stay on longer perhaps... maybe.

[GearTripper]

Re: Stayin on 9 months?

Originally posted by TooPowerful4u
What are the dangers in stayin on for 9 months, with a bridge of 10mg dbol for 6 weeks at end of 3rd month. Has anyone stayed on 9 months and still recovered? Would HCG administered at times throughout the period make a difference and possibly help me avoid permanent shutdown?

to answer your questions more directly... dbol DOES shut you down also, so you won't be getting any benefit in that regard. HCG administered every three days of the cycle between 300-500iu's supposedly will help your recovery (that's my current HCG program).

[TooPowerful4u]

I am just worried i wont recover permanently. I mean, if i ever decide to stop using roids, i want to be at my normal test levels again, rather than have HRT for the rest of my life. If i take the 6 weeks off, use HCG occasionally for a week or two throughout the 9 months, will that be enough to keep my HPTA in tact?

[G-S]

Originally posted by IAMHUGE
I stayed on for 12 months. I made a big mistake. I will never do it again. I will run my next cycle for about 16 weeks max.

I'm curious to know this as well. I'm currently in month 9 of a 12 month cycle.

[digitalmuscle]

hi all,

new here.also interested as i am in mnth 7 of a 9 mnth cycle?

thanks

[Nekrawulf]

my longest cycle was 24 months, coming off now. Some people have very good androgen receptors that will allow them to stay on and make gains on extended periods of time... others do not.

I myself do not gain much after about 12-16 weeks of cycling....no matter how much I eat or train.

If you do decide to run a longer cycle, HCG is a must.

500 iu twice a week is wonderful for keeping the "boys" in check.

[TooPowerful4u]

Ok.... so what would you say my odds are as to not recovering at all when i come off and bein on HRT the rest of my life?

By the way, im almost 21 haha, preppin for bodybuilding show, thats my reason to stay on.

[drgoodbody]

I'm with Nekra - shorter cycles don't do much for me. Currently I'm in week 24 (don't try this at home kiddies) of a cycle that during most of I was above 1.5 grams of AAS per week. I'm not huge, but I'm big enough and look hard.

As for coming off, yup I'm about to, so this is going to be interesting. I've used hcg about every 4-6 weeks for a week (500IU/day) throughout, but I can tell that my nuts are smaller. I am being monitored by a doctor coming off, so we will be looking at test levels to see how I recover. Let me say that without a doctor's monitoring I personally would not have wanted to run a cycle this long (I ran 12-14 week cycles solo in the past, that's it). Getting bloodwork every 6 weeks has been a stress reliever - only thing thats fucked up right now is my cholesterol (which is 266, up from 160 when I started my cycle). So its time to recover. I'll be back on in the spring (probably around March) so that I can get ripped for summer.

DrG

[IAMHUGE]

My liver values were raised almost to toxic levels, my skin got so bad that it may never fully recover, and my mind was playing tricks on me. It was also my first cycle ever, and I stayed on for a year. I am running my pct now, and will be back on soon. I plan to run cycles now rather than just staying on indef.

I got flamed pretty bad for staying on that long, and decided to listen to those more wise than me here at S.M.

[house1]

i see nothing wrong with staying on for extended periods of time--i have been on since last march and will be on till whenever--

as long as your getting regular blood work and things are fine i see no problem with staying on--

alot of folks run into problems because of the type and amount of shit they take in that time-
to many people hyped on big doses but dont train worth a shit--i also get a kick out some of the pics i see--there doing a gram and a half of test plus other shit and they weigh 180 lbs-- lol had to get a rant in there

[goliath]

i've been on since april and plan to stay on until after my first show. i haven't decided which show, but it will be late in 2004. i'll came off for a few months max...if ever. i may stay on an HRT dose of test for good....i'm 27. my test has been low my whole life.

[trip]

IMHO the biggest danger is having a HANGOVER feeling for 2-3 months.

Statistically very small, miniscule long term negatives with AS, yes, it does happen, yet, you get bad reactions to aspirin and alchohol.

Just from my own experience and read boards for years, when you come off you go from feeling like superman to clark kent, add on to that lot's of hormonal changes going on.

If you're PCT is good and you have MAJOR DEDICATION IN DIET AND TRAINING, should be all good, you let one of these slip during pct cause hormones are playing havoc and get ready for that hangover feeling, and it can last long time.

About 5.5 months in got underdosed gear, so as weeks wore on got weaker etc., by the time I realized it way way shut down, at that point it was get back on hard or pct, I chose to PCT, which was late in the game, and it was rough rough rough, everday not being on top of game just off by whatever and you are busting your ass yet you ain't going to feel it cause hormonal imbalance.

Thanks be I finally feel normal again and all is going well.

Note though trained all the way through it and watched diet like a hawk, feel if hadn't been as dedicated on diet it would have been major pain.

I am no expert, yet, bridges are like every other aspect of this journey, have to learn what works for you.

good luck