Need surgery mid cycle help?

[deadlifter405]

Just bad luck I guess, I recently developed an umbilical hernia and I am 5 weeks into my spring bulker cycle of 1 gram Test-E per week having just completed 50 mg/day of DBOL kick starter. Gains were going very well too.

Surgery is 9 days away so my plan is to just to drop back to my 200 mg/week HRT cruise dose and stay there until I'm healed up and can lift at my pre-cycle poundages again.

Question: Is there any good way to recover faster and/or minimize my losses while I heal? I have lots of Test-E, DBOL and Anavar on hand currently.

Doctor said no weight training for 2 weeks following surgery, then I can do light non-core work for a month and then add in very light core work (including all normally heavy exercises like squats/deadlifts just go light and back off at any pain). He thought I should be back up to full strength about 3 weeks post surgery. He has no idea about my AAS use, but was impressed with how strong my core appears to be and my overall condition for a 51 year old man.

Thoughts?

 

[snakeskinz]

im your age bro and i had that same sugery 3 years ago ....it was no big deal at all after a week i was lifting again within 2 weeks i could do everything as usuall except bent over rows and squats ....2 weeks in middle of cycle really shouldnt be a big deal ... i recently had shoulder surgery and can vouch for legit HGH helping me heal very quickly....FWIW

snake

 

[jimm]

why are you going to lower ur dose down??? keep runing ur cycle as if u were not injured train what you can comfortably! JMO

 

[Standard Donkey]

id keep the test up but drop the dbol if u havent already



how did you injure yourself?

 

[deadlifter405]

Doc examined me, tested my core strength and was somewhat impressed, and he thought it was simply genetic and recently let go. We all have this particular weakness as the umbilical cord is a penetration through the abdominal wall. I haven't used a lifting belt in nearly 20 years, and those things increase intra-abdominal pressure, so I would have thought I was less prone to a hernia but apparently not.

I've had a small lump for nearly a year now, but recently it's gotten somewhat larger and sometimes I get a very painful protrusion that I have to push back inside my abdomen. This is why I brought it up with doctor who sent me to a surgeon for a consultation which we agreed a surgical repair is appropriate because it's just going to keep getting worse. I have no recollection of any single event causing it, I simply noticed it in the shower as an unusual lump.

So, sounds like keeping the test up at 1 gram/week or so would be a good idea? I was only dropping down to my HRT dosage as I think it's going to be weeks until I can lift heavy again and didn't want to just waste a cycle. My plan is to jump back on cycle once I recover my pre-surgery strength and conditioning. Is there any healing benefit to running a high level of test? I've been Googling for a while and can't find anything definitive. The use of GRHP-6 does show up as being a benefit though, so I'm optimistic I'll heal pretty quickly which will allow me to get back to heavy training sooner.

 

[Digitalash]

If you're on trt anyway just stay on the test. It won't affect your surgery and shouldn't change your recovery much if any. Test is fairly cheap and it will help you preserve during your time off, you don't need to recover/pct so lengthening the cycle isn't a problem anyway

 

[overburdened]

Just bad luck I guess, I recently developed an umbilical hernia and I am 5 weeks into my spring bulker cycle of 1 gram Test-E per week having just completed 50 mg/day of DBOL kick starter. Gains were going very well too.

Surgery is 9 days away so my plan is to just to drop back to my 200 mg/week HRT cruise dose and stay there until I'm healed up and can lift at my pre-cycle poundages again.

Question: Is there any good way to recover faster and/or minimize my losses while I heal? I have lots of Test-E, DBOL and Anavar on hand currently.

Doctor said no weight training for 2 weeks following surgery, then I can do light non-core work for a month and then add in very light core work (including all normally heavy exercises like squats/deadlifts just go light and back off at any pain). He thought I should be back up to full strength about 3 weeks post surgery. He has no idea about my AAS use, but was impressed with how strong my core appears to be and my overall condition for a 51 year old man.

Thoughts?

check the monographs on nolva, femara, adex,, hcg, etc before you take those presurgery... they can cause embolism... just a pointer...in case you were going to or are taking them at the moment

 

[overburdened]

Doc examined me, tested my core strength and was somewhat impressed, and he thought it was simply genetic and recently let go. We all have this particular weakness as the umbilical cord is a penetration through the abdominal wall. I haven't used a lifting belt in nearly 20 years, and those things increase intra-abdominal pressure, so I would have thought I was less prone to a hernia but apparently not.

I've had a small lump for nearly a year now, but recently it's gotten somewhat larger and sometimes I get a very painful protrusion that I have to push back inside my abdomen. This is why I brought it up with doctor who sent me to a surgeon for a consultation which we agreed a surgical repair is appropriate because it's just going to keep getting worse. I have no recollection of any single event causing it, I simply noticed it in the shower as an unusual lump.

So, sounds like keeping the test up at 1 gram/week or so would be a good idea? I was only dropping down to my HRT dosage as I think it's going to be weeks until I can lift heavy again and didn't want to just waste a cycle. My plan is to jump back on cycle once I recover my pre-surgery strength and conditioning. Is there any healing benefit to running a high level of test? I've been Googling for a while and can't find anything definitive. The use of GRHP-6 does show up as being a benefit though, so I'm optimistic I'll heal pretty quickly which will allow me to get back to heavy training sooner.

I would lower the test prior to surgery... just in case there are complications... if you aren't going to tell your dr you are on it, he may treat any complications incorrectly not knowing... a cruising dose would probably be fine... 1g is a different story though...
I gotta do the same thing... going in for shoulder surgery in couple weeks...

 

[Digitalash]

What's wrong with your shoulder and what surgery are you getting? Insurance covering it and what kind of insurance? Sorry to derail thread but I've had the worst injury of my entire life for the past 7+ months and haven't even been given the option of surgery, no insurance but I don't know what the fuck to do at this point....

back to thread lol

 

[overburdened]

What's wrong with your shoulder and what surgery are you getting? Insurance covering it and what kind of insurance? Sorry to derail thread but I've had the worst injury of my entire life for the past 7+ months and haven't even been given the option of surgery, no insurance but I don't know what the fuck to do at this point....

back to thread lol

I was in a car wreck last june... grade 3 ac separation(not what surgery is for though)... a ton of bone marrow edema, and soft tissue hypertrophy in the joint, some torn tendons but dr is convinced the tendon tears are due to the bone malformations/edema and amount of swelling in the joint...I'm of the same opinion... just arthroscopic(as long as the rim rent tear isn't too bad)... 3 mo recovery(prob less with gear)...

back to thread

 

[Digitalash]

Damn that sucks bro, I had a fair amount of edema on my mri but mine's just lifting related. Kinda chronic thing, fucked it up at some point and it started coming back everytime I would start lifting again and getting progressively worse because I wouldn't stop training lol. Just finished physical therapy so I'm gonna go back for another MRI soon and see what's up

Good luck to you though man and hopefully you're back in the gym quick. I'm sure you know already but maybe run some EQ/peptides/GH to make things a little quicker