Biggest factor in determinig how much your shut down?

[5x10]

For guys that get off for extended periods of time(6 months plus in between cycle)(dont want to include people that rarely come off or come off for just a few months as im not sure a full recovery will be made by then)

Please vote on what you think the biggest factor is in determining how quickly you recover from a cycle

Is it
-the length of time you were on?
-the amount(mgs) of roids used
-or the specific compounds(ie: deca only, test only, etc)

The reason I ask is, the last cycle i did 4 yrs ago which consisted of
dbol wk 1-4 25/day
deca wk 1-9 300/wk
test wk 1-13 300/wk
tren wk 9-13 50/eod

pct: hcg, nolvadex, waited a month after pct, test levels were 200, did clomid for 6 days(couldnt take anymore, made me depressed), waited a month, got blood done and was a 640)
but, all in all, it took close to 4-6 months to get out of the funk
i want to determine what the biggest factor was in my last recovery time

 

[25homes]

Deca tren hard to recover from for one. Also if you run hcg during the cycle recovery is much easier and adding hcgenerate to pct will help recovery tremendously

 

[5x10]

Deca tren hard to recover from for one. Also if you run hcg during the cycle recovery is much easier and adding hcgenerate to pct will help recovery tremendously

have you run a test only cycle and a deca or tren only cycle and compared recovery times?

ive read that deca is about 30% more suppresive and it does stay in your system longer, but after 10 weeks of test at 400-500mgs a week, your not going to be producing anything anyways so its kinda of a moot point as being totally shut down from deca is the same as being totally shut down from test

 

[Zyglamail]

have you run a test only cycle and a deca or tren only cycle and compared recovery times?

ive read that deca is about 30% more suppresive and it does stay in your system longer, but after 10 weeks of test at 400-500mgs a week, your not going to be producing anything anyways so its kinda of a moot point as being totally shut down from deca is the same as being totally shut down from test

the ONLY way to compare recovery times is to take blood work precycle, at end of cycle and then close intervals post cycle so you can see when various things come back in line. This would require someone to fork over a lot of money so you likely arent going to find anyone here with anything but anecdotal "hey my dick worked after 4 weeks" claims.

Dosages of test as low as 25mg/wk will have a negative impact on your total serum test levels bring a mean of 568 down to about 250 after 16 weeks.

a dose of 50mg/wk will bring the mean down to about 306 and a dose of 125 in one test group raised mean average test of the group from 553 to 570 after 16 weeks.

So taking a test dose below 125mg/wk will LOWER your total test, 125mg/wk is about an exact replacement for your own test if your natural levels are ~560..