Will balls return to same size as pre cycle?

[budboo]

Just finished a 20 week cycle of 1000mg sust ew. My heaviest and longest cycle to date by far. Never used a pct on my previous, lighter (8 - 12 week approx. 500mg of various stuff) cycles and never really needed to, everything returning to normal on its own with some minor loss of gains. Erred on the side of caution this time and am running 1000iu hcg eod for 3 weeks and nolva at 20mgs ed for 4 weeks as my pct. Currently on day 12 of pct and my balls have regained most of their size but are not quite pre cycle size. Just wondering if I am hoping for too much too soon, as in will they regain their full pre cycle size in time? Or have others also permanently lost a little size after heavy cycles, even with pct employed?

Any advice / experiences / anecdotes would be greatly appreciated.

I might just be impatient to have the boys back to their full swingin' glory, i dunno.

Thanks.

 

[niightz]

How do you know they are not back to normal size? Did you measure them before and after? I'd have to say get bloodwok done 30 days after pct and you should have a pretty good idea of how the boys are doing.

 

[ismaele00]

The size of testes are not the most important...

If you read "HCG Unraveled" you found this:

"visually analyzing testes size is a poor method of judging your actual testicular function, since testicular size is not directly related to the ability to secrete testosterone. (4) This is because the leydig cells, which are the primary sites of testosterone secretion, only make up about 10% of the total testicular volume. Therefore, when the testes may only appear 5-10% smaller, the testes ability to secrete testosterone upon LH or hCG stimulation can actually be significantly reduced to 98% of their normal production. (3-5) The point here is to not judge testosterone secretion capacity by testicular size".

 

[2DIEZEL]

Just makes the bat look bigger;

 

[sonicwaste]

Bro, you should have run the HCG during your cycle, so that they don't atrophy and makes post cycle recovery easier.

At this point you are 3 weeks into your PCT and you are still suppressed because of the HCG. On occasion I will run HCG into the very first 7-20 days of PCT.

Now that your testes are almost back to size, it's time drop drop the HCG...NOW, you are further complicating things at this point. Drop the HCG and continue on to your recovery

 

[budboo]

I'm not concerned about their size as an indicator of full htpa recovey, I'll rely on bloodwork like niightz suggested for that. Just from an aesthetic and psychological point of view I'd hate to think I've permanently and irreversibly lost some size to my balls. That was more what my question was about, has anyone else had a similar experience, ie your balls take an extended period of time to regain their full size? Like i said I'm currently at day 12 of pct and balls have probably regained 75% of their pre cycle size but seemed to have stopped there and they got up to this size after only 3 or 4 days. Anyone feeling my pain?

 

[sonicwaste]

There are multiple factors... It's hard to say. I've not personally known anyone with permanently small testes, however I have heard of cases and have seen interviews depicting that circumstance.

Good news is, you are only 12 days in to PCT. You still have time for them to recover. Hope is not lost. You'll just have to see how it plays out. But testes size is usually a pretty good indicator of the state of your HPTA. Not an absolute, but a pretty good indicator. Give it some time...

But it's definitely time to drop the HCG, you don't want to stay suppressed any longer.

20 weeks is a decent amount of time. Get your bloodwork done at 30 days... And see if you need to take the PCT longer.

 

[rnch]

hava faith, bud...eventually the boyz WILL plump out again.

P.S. i don't wanna be the one to measure them for you.