Your body will not actually start to recover until you stop taking steroids or HCG. Using HCG on cycle is not a bad thing. It will help your body force nautral production of test, even if you are shut down. So on cycle is the best time to use HCG, then run it right up to your PCT. But that is assuming that you run the HCG and then come off. You're talking about a much longer cycle. 36 wks is like 3/4 of a year. Thats way too long to call a cycle. At that point, its just normal day to day business. Cycle would imply using gear on and off. In order to recover from a 36 wk cycle, most people would have a very hard time getting their natural test back for a very long time. I would suggest taking time off, then doing your next cycle after you get some labs to show you that test is back to normal. This way there is no guessing