Did you just run the DECA alone??
Look, I really don't want this to turn into a deca dick thread. The question was regarding alternatives to deca for bulking.
Using deca right or wrong hasn't turned out well for me, even after doing research in advanced and especially now at the end. I did several test e only cycles with no issues and great success but for me, mixing test e @ 750 and deca @400 along with semi-regular hcg shut my shit completely down.
My last test e batch being bad, I was probably on just DECA for a month who knows since the test was bunk.
I really enjoyed myself until the last 2-3 weeks which I think as a result of the bunk test, my noodle went limp and I began to have hormone crash and all associated with it.
From what I have read, it should have been expected. All symptoms of hormone crash.
I begain to have some headaches on clomid and while taking accutane at the same time at the end, I had a bad reaction to it as well.
So, I had no stable pct to fall back on. Clomid was my answer. After things didn't improve for me sexually about 2 weeks later, and reading on the forums about guys who have been impotent a year or more and still haven't sought the advice of a doctor, I decided I wasn't going to put my health to any further chance and I sought the advice of my primary care doctor who is a teaching physician at a major research hospital.
First thing he wanted me to do was take a blood panel and he consulted his endocrinology partner. They got together and I gave him my entire deca/test regiment.
Basically the blood panel came back that my sex hormones were suppressed and I still had high test but that was only 2 weeks after my last shot.
It's been a little over a month since the cycle ended. I am taking hcgenerate and pct unleashed combo and feel much better, just my noodle hasn't returned.
My doc tells me he treats steroid users before and did some research on the ones I used.
I will come back, but it's going to take some time for my body to return to normal.
In the meantime, the blood pressure medicine helped me a bunch I feel much better and I have a script for Viagra.
So, yes, I am done with DECA. My body didn't like it and I feel the much safer alternative for me short of not doing anything is to use some much milder steroids or atleast one's that my body won't react so violently too.
You wouldn't believe the acne this stuff put all over my upper torso. It is still disgusting and what a blow to have a bad reaction to accutane that I cannot continue to use it (felt pressure in my brain and was dizzy).
In the meantime, I am going to recover and carefully plan my next cycle, which won't happen until my blood panel shows me returning to normal