Iron Lifers, I'm a 32 year old male who has been training for about 13 years. I've made steady gains over the years, but never really gotten to the level I wanted. Two years ago I decided I would try my hand with AAS, test in particular. I decided to eat clean, eat lots, and train hard. I scoured the forums in search of the perfect cycle. Things were going great for the first 6 weeks of my ten week experiment. I put on around 15 pounds and my strength was at an all time high. The glorious 315 bench wasn't a one rep max, but a working set. The high quickly started to fade when I started to wake up throughout the night from my arms and hands falling asleep. It got so bad that I could only get 20 minutes of sleep at a time. Then my chest, shoulders, and back began to break out. I put all this aside and continued to press forward with the cycle. Then the pain in my shoulders set in. My front and rear delts would become extremely irritated after doing chest and back. I had to abandon shoulder training all together. I finished the cycle but could no longer bench 135 by week 10. The pain in my shoulders overpowered my strength. I finally broke down and went see a doctor for my shoulders and nasty break out problem and a specialist for my "sleeping arm" troubles. I found out that the I was retaining so much water that my nerves were actually being "crushed" which caused severe carpel tunnel. I reluctantly admitted I was on a test cycle and the doctor told me to lay off the salt and drinks lots of H2O and get off the cycle. That problem cleared up in a matter of days. The breakout problem lasted about another month or so and finally dissipated as well. The final problem is still with me...my bicep tendons that run in front of my shoulders and my rear lat tendons could not handle the new weights I could lift during my ten week experiment. It has a been a whole year of trying to find a way to train my chest. I can no longer bench at all. I have found the 3/4 rep using dumbbells to work and tons of flys. I am finally comfortable with a training regiment I can handle, but may never get the physique I had BEFORE trying the cycle. Do I bash the "juice"? No. This is just a little tale of some of the things that can happen, beside gyno, that you don't read about too often on of the forums.

Muddy