The internet is full of threads about high estrogen, its side effects etc etc but there is nothing about how to detect if your estrogen is on its way up.
For the rookies, it is IMPERATIVE for you to get estrogen control down. It's what separates a successful cycle from an unsuccessful cycle.
If you don't read this you'll probably screw up and you'll be looking pretty stupid with your boobs and limp dick.
So you finally just took the plunge and started taking steroids, how exciting. You got your testosterone ready to go and you're ready to be the biggest and baddest mofo to ever hit the scene. You're ready to be juiced up; you're gonna have all the confidence in the world and get all the pussy in the world, all while being big and ripped as shit. That's probably why you ended up here, right?
You're probably on 500mg per week of some kind of testosterone. Hopefully you will only take test in the beginning because that's all you're ready for, you're not ready to control anything else yet. As much as you wanna take tren, and as much as you think you can handle it... YOU CAN'T! I PROMISE!
If your estrogen is already high you'll probably know something is wrong and then find out online what to do, but by that time you're already a little bit fucked. Your dick maybe didn't get hard, or you couldn't finish, or you're an ugly, oily, pimply, waterlogged crybaby. That is high estrogen at its finest. Don't worry though man, we've all been there. Everyone who took their first or second swing at this lifestyle has gone through these issues, especially the limp dick part because that just sucks... I promise you'll learn.
BUT
How can you tell if your e2 is on its way up? Because you're not going to get all of those above symptoms at once, they still creep up on you.
By being on even just 250mg of [good] testosterone you are walking around with double, if not more, of the test of the ordinary guy. That means you can go from being at your estrogen sweet spot, to your estrogen rising in just a few hours. You need to be on top of it.
Symptoms are individual but they are all common so here's how I, personally, can tell if my e2 is going up; (I'm on 250mg testosterone per week at the moment)
-If the eye heaviness/puffyness doesn't go away within a few hours of me waking up, I take .25mg of arimidex.
-If I drink a few glasses of water and haven't pissed at all by 12 o'clock noon, I take .25mg of arimidex.
And if I do piss, but feel tension and have to sort of push it out, my e2 is getting high and i take arimidex. (this is actually a huge indicator for me)
-If I go more than a day without getting horny, I take .25mg of arimidex. No matter how busy or tired you are you WILL get horny every single day if you are on the real deal.
-If I am horny and I have to really concentrate to finish, my e2 is getting high and I take arimidex.
-If I'm not somewhat feeling like myself, or pissed off for no reason at all, I asses myself and look for the above symptoms, then I drink a few glasses of water and if I don't have to pee within an hour, I take arimidex.
***Lastly, if your ballsack is tight and not hanging... treat your e2.
If you're feeling off, most of the time your e2 is high or getting high. The ways listed above in which I deal with this is for Arimidex users. If you take letro or aromasin, you're probably going to want to take the smallest dose possible because those actually kill the estrogen already in your body. Arimidex doesn't do that; arimidex blocks any future estrogen from binding to the receptor, meaning it's a preventative.
So, now that you know how to prevent yourself from looking like an idiot, and if you've made the grown up big boy decision to live this lifestyle, go out there, get ripped and shredded minced sliced diced and everything in between and find a girl and convince her to let you have your balls hanging out of her. (or what's left of them)