How should one use HCG to prevent testicular atrophy during a test cycle?

[athlete03]

I'd just like some feedback on how you bros use HCG during a test cycle. Do you have to up the dose of arimidex with it to prevent aromatization???

 

[JC Grifter]

I'll bump for ya.. i am curious myself

 

[athlete03]

C'mon. I know some folks here like to keep their nuts with a little HCG mid cycle...

 

[HOOLIGAN]

At mid cycle do 2000i.u. eod for about 10 days. I've done this with good short term results.But by week 8 I had lost my nuts again. Now I give up and just wait and use clomid post cycle.

 

[wilson6]

600 IU 2x per week, sub-Q from the beginning of the cycle until the end should do it, then taper the hCG while taking Clomid after the cycle.

There is some impairment of estradiol production as a function of hCG during T use, but it is only after T has been used for a period, then hCG is introduced. Don't know what would happen if both were started at the same time.

See:

Matsumoto, et al. Human chorionic gonadotropin and testicular function: Stimulation of testosterone, testosterone precusors, and sperm production despite high estradiol levels. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 56(4): 720-728, 1983.

Have your E levels checked about 36 hrs after a dose of hCG while on a cycle. Then you'll know if there is a problem or not.

2000 IU is too much, probably down regulates the receptors in a short period of time and that is why the effects were short-term.

W6