HPTA Shutdown. Please help with advice!!!

NativeTX

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I've posted a couple of threads about being shut down completely, and I have not received a lot of feedback and virtually no good advice on this site which I had held in high regard. I would appreciate any advice. This is information that I found from another site:

I talked to the doc today on the phone and he answered many questions for me in regards to recovery of the HPTA.
For those of you who don’t know what that is it is “Hypothalamus Pituitary Testicular Axis”
After administration of AAS, you have shutdown of the HPTA. Depending on the meds taken shutdown can be severe and much does depend on the person as well.

This is the protocol the doc said he used in literally thousands of users with suppressed HPTA.
First thing, the 500iu a day was not enough to make the testicles do their job, he suggested this was just a waste of time and money.
He suggests 8 shots of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) @ 2500iu EOD.
With this you take 20 mg of nolvadex for 45 days.
Clomid is also taken but twice a day @ 50mg each dose 12 hours apart.

The reason for the amounts of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) (which is the most important part, if the balls don’t fire everything else is worthless), is based on his determination to bring the balls back to life, too little wont accomplish this, too much risks damage to the Leydig cells.
So he basically was saying that you do the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) and around day 10 of the above protocol, you should get a blood test for testosterone. If it is above 400 or greater then this says the balls will be just fine once you get off the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) and the Clomid and nolva take over. This will accept the LH that you are putting out to maintain testicular function.
He used the term like jumping a car. Your battery (Pituitary gland) if low wont start your car (your testicles), if you use another car and jumper cables (HCG) once the car starts your battery (HP part of the HPTA) will keep your car running.

The clomid by itself he suggested can inhibit either the pituitary or the hypothalamus (can’t remember which one) but if taken with nolva this blocks the estrogen receptors so you wont inhibit that.
So clomid in his protocol is always taken with nolvadex ALWAYS.

He did mention that sometimes the balls just don’t take and then you do the protocol again. He said it was rare that he could not fire up the HPTA.
He said that beings that I have good size difference (balls), feel good, strength gains, and a greasy face he felt I should have no problems with returning the HPTA.

Some things he said was tribulis was actually inhibitory on the HPTA, great I wish I found that out after I bought two bottles.

ZMA, he said if it made me feel good then go for it but it is placebo and the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), clomid, nolva was it and all that is needed.

Talked to him about progesterone and he said never take that if you are a man (the last doc prescribed it to me)

Sorry aftershock, I forgot to ask him about the GH question he was saying so much I was just trying to listen.

One thing he did mention (in an article) was that HGH actually helped with the testicular recovery with things and adding that to the Protocol is a good idea and productive.

Avoid aspirin when on Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) as it kind of ruins the effects.

He said oxandrolone was suppressive on the HPTA, but Deca and Anadrol were probably the worst in his opinion. I asked him about tren but he had no knowledge as he never used it.
He did mention that test in itself was not all that suppressive and he has seen guys on 18 months that came off and made a full recovery in 45 days with the above protocol.

He said one of the best ways was 12 weeks of test, followed by the above protocol, then start another 12 weeks followed by the above protocol with a month off after that then start again.

He did say that desensitization to Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) took around 2 months, and the dose of 2500 was fine and no damage or desensitization would occur if you followed his protocol.

There it is. Please comment
 
There is much more additional information on this other site, but I wuld think that the Senior Members and Mods would have some valuable advice to give on this subject.
 
i would still go for bloodwork to be absolutely positive as to whats going on . thats the only way to know for sure if you are producing test and if u made a recovery and/or if using that much Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) is necessary . also once again tho , id be willing to place a bet that if you have been shutdown for a long time , be it cycling to long or no proper post cycle therapy (pct) , i dont think u will ever be producing as much test naturaly as u were pre-cycle .
 
Id blast Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) @ 1000ius ed for 10 days then run
Clomid 100/100/100/100/50/50
Nolvadex 40/40/40/40/20/20
 
Their is an entire sticky on post cycle therapy (pct) but yet you find information your looking for and post it for others to see? Plus your not happy that nobody is answering your identicle other thread so you start another one. Your trying to label yourself as knowledgeable telling others how to cycle yet asking the one question which has been answered a thousand times if you do a search. My question to you is how do you want us to answer your question? What answer are you looking for? Im truly not trying to give you a hard time but their is a reason people arent answering you. What are you asking that is not in the post cycle therapy (pct) sticky on this forum?
 
even if you did no post cycle therapy (pct) you would recover if it was going to happen. just alot slower.

also Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) causes shutdown and is why its not used DURING post cycle therapy (pct). it "fakes" LH so to speak. if you do Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) then stop dont expect that to fix you, you have shut down moreso.
HCG is goof because it can "keep the gears running" and keep balls big. but that does not mean recovered.
use Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) for 4-6 weeks then do another 4ish weeks of SERMs and give it 3-4 weeks and go for blood work, if you are still shut down then its time for HRT......
 
even if you did no PCT you would recover if it was going to happen. just alot slower.

also HCG causes shutdown and is why its not used DURING post cycle therapy (pct). it "fakes" LH so to speak. if you do HCG then stop dont expect that to fix you, you have shut down moreso.
HCG is goof because it can "keep the gears running" and keep balls big. but that does not mean recovered.
use hcg for 4-6 weeks then do another 4ish weeks of SERMs and give it 3-4 weeks and go for blood work, if you are still shut down then its time for HRT......

So do you have worse shutdown if you use HCG while your on cycle???
 
So do you have worse shutdown if you use HCG while your on cycle???

Noooo hcg helps when steroids are taken, simply steroids shut down your bodies own testosterone including the leutinizing hormone. Hcg resembles LH and keeps your boys nice and full. Good during the cycle, not good during pct.
 
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