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09/04/09
Your cycle is ending and you know what that means – your body’s natural testosterone production has been floored. You were naturally producing a little fewer than 50 mg per week before your cycle. During the cycle, you enjoyed levels of 400 to 1000 mg per week. You are finally taking your last shot and you’re pretty well aware of the fact your levels are about to plummet to zero. You know the severity of your situation, but you aren’t panicked. Because you have Clomid on your side!
Clomid, a synthetic estrogen, was originally designed to help women begin ovulation when the body was not allowing it to happen naturally. As with many other medications, bodybuilders quickly learned its properties could be used for their muscle building and muscle maintenance purposes, and it worked its way into the bodybuilding prescription stable. In women, it promotes estrogen management. In males, it actually lowers estrogen production by binding to the estrogen receptors and rendering them inactive in response to steroids.
Clomid is a fairly weak anti-estrogen when used to prevent the onset of Gynecomastia, a puffiness and hardening of the tissue beneath the nipples. There are better drugs for this purpose, including Nolvadex and Arimidex, but there will be times when Clomid is your only option. Given the current state of affairs that is the American health care system, your doctor (if you have one) may not be willing to prescribe some of these harder compounds (which many use for a steroid cycle by themselves!), so you may be forced to choose Clomid, which is much more readily available and a very easy drug for which to receive a prescription.
You will want to begin using Clomid just as the last injection or oral you consumed nears the end of its active life. For a strong oral such as Anadrol or Dianabol, this will only be 6 to 8 hours. Other drugs with slightly longer life spans, such as Fina, will just need a few days before Clomid use should begin. If you’re running an injectable that leaves the body fast, such as test suspension (which uses water instead of oil), you’ll need to begin taking Clomid just four hours after your last shot. A slower, oil-based testosterone ester or blend, such as test Cypionate or Sustanon, will give you two to three weeks of positive effects before it will be time to start Clomid.
Once you do begin Clomid, there is no such thing as missing doses, if you want to have your testosterone levels return and your testes begin doing their job once again. You will be running Clomid for about three weeks. Begin with a dosage of 50 mg of Clomid per day for 7 days, then slowly reduce the daily use until you’re down to zero and your own T production has returned.
Clomid is an inexpensive, readily available drug which can help your testosterone levels to return to normal without a post-cycle crash that you’d see with the normal complete removal of artificial testosterone from the body.
