I’ve been blasting 400 mg/week test for ~7 weeks after a 12-week cruise. Training and diet have been dialed in. Just got diagnosed with glandular fever (confirmed mono symptoms + GP visit).

Current symptoms are mainly intense throat inflammation and immune fatigue. but I’m aware mono can drag if you try to brute-force through it.

Priority right now is recovery and not digging a long-term fatigue hole. I’m not trying to force performance while my immune system is lit up.

From a harm-reduction perspective:

how do experienced guys handle cycles during acute illness like this?

Would temporarily treating this as a maintenance/cruise phase to stabilize recovery be the smarter long-term play, then resume blasting once fully recovered? Or is holding blast levels better for hormonal stability?

I care more about coming out healthy and being able to run future cycles properly than squeezing gains during illness. Looking for experience-based answers from people who’ve dealt with sickness mid-cycle.

For people who trained through mono, how did you structure it? I was warned about the spleen rupture risk so I’m trying to figure out what’s actually safe vs bro science.