Thread: not exactly a first cycle log

been taking anavar for 3 weeks now. 40mg ed split into 20mg am and 20mg a couple of hours before I hit the gym around 5pm. started getting painful lower back in the 2nd week. did chest/shoulders/tri yesterday and had first really good workout where pushing heavier weights felt easy. felt really good, tons of energy, workouts are going 90mins with no problem. also noticing muscles feel firmer. getting great pump on legs.
have upped protein and overall calories, not by a lot as I have done the eat big to get big bulk before and don't want to get that fat again. this is going to be a slow, clean bulk. as I'm on trt and technically never coming off cycle I don't have to worry about trying do it all in the usual 12wks.

did back yesterday. didn't have the same great workout as monday. to be fair, I didn't sleep well last 2 nights and have been struggling to stay awake at work (it's ok, I'm not a truck driver or pilot)
still, am seeing some progress on upper back. traps are starting to show. chest as well is seeing some progress, however upper chest is noticeably bigger on side compared to the other. I do incline db and have started to do incline flyes to help balance it out.
anyone else ever have that issue?

gained back the 5lbs I lost during my "cut" (sarcastic) but waist size isn't going up so hopefully that is a good sign

haven't been sleeping well the last few nights. last night was really bad, laid awake all night with a thumping headache. went to work today and it was getting worse, felt really crappy. was seriously gonna skip the gym today. finally caved and popped a couple of ibuprofen. took a few hours to work, but it helped enough for me to get to the gym.
can't say I had a good workout, but I went and pushed thru the best I could. started with a 20rep squat, but stopped at 17 as I could feel the blood pressure in my head building up. did bss next and did 15 reps on right leg, but only 12 on the left leg. what's weird is that last week I did left leg first and got more reps than the right.

I kinda messed up last weeks injection. when I pulled the needle out, blood starting gushing down my leg. I always aspirate so was a bit surprised when it happened.
then I started thinking that maybe the test I just injected was comiing out as well. is that a thing? does anyone know if the test can leak out with the blood?

todays pin went even worse! I aspirate and see blood so I pull out and hit a new spot aspirate again and inject. pull out and blood gushing down my leg like last week. am I losing the test that I inject when this happens?

had blood work done. been on test cyp 250mg once a week for 9 weeks and anavar 40mg ed for 4 weeks.
blood was drawn 5 days after injecting.

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The sore back doesn't sound good.
Are you using proper lifting techniques?

while I'm sure my form isn't 100% perfect, the back pain is from the anavar.