Been lurking on and off for years. 5’9”, 215lb, long time test pinning and dabbling with AAS.
I feel like I need to put this up here to warn folks. Some of these counterfeits are getting so good, you simply cannot tell any more.
Long story short, I purchased some of the “finest” gear could find online. Beligas brand. Prop and Enath. Both arrived with proper holograms, scratch offs… numbers were even confirmed on the site as authentic products.
Pinned prop first. EOD .75ml x3. All caused insane PIP. Never in years of pinning have I ever felt PIP that bad from glute and delt shots.
Got my bloods done and test dropped, despite my dose remaining the same… PIP took 4 days per shot to be bearable
Decided to try the Enanthate in the one good delt I had left, 1ml @400mg to last a week, hoping it was better quality or would at least hurt less than the Prop. Then the real bad stuff happened.
Ended up in the ER. Gear was counterfeit. No test in the gear, just whatever unsanitary Indian bathtub water causes severe infections. On strong antibiotics, lost 2 weeks of training, pain lasted 2 weeks, and couldn’t move my arm for about half a week.
be careful out there guys. Doc told me this could have given me sepsis and killed me.
need a new source now and terrified to try another UDG after this experience.
I don’t partake anymore in anything other than scripted TRT. However, I never cared to go for a “brand” of gear. I ordered from vouched for suppliers that made their own brew and shipped domestically. Never had a problem.
I examined the bottles and found the factory crimp on the vials look tampered with. My suspicion is someone is emptying the vials from legit Beligas, and then refilling them before shipping them out. They have a someone skimming product and putting lives at risk. Only 3 of the shipment looked this way, and I was unlucky enough to miss it and use one of the bad ones first.
Doc recommend I get tested for Hep C, among other things. It really messed me up. I feel weak and have lingering nerve pain. Feelings of random wetness on my skin all over my arms. Sharp pains all over my body. Had a 101 fever earlier today and currently natty… yesterday too. Sweating through my clothes randomly throughout the day. Still have trouble training
I messaged the shop and sent them pics of the re-crimped vial caps. They told me they were forwarding to management. No response yet but I’ll let you know how it goes.
Def not, but I heard it was at least legit. I had a gym bro recommend the “finest” source he knew, so gave it a shot and definitely regret it now.
Is all Beligas bad nowadays? I’ve seen some posts about severe PIP but almost always about Test Prop… which sort of has a reputation for being a tougher shot.
I got a response. They saw the pics and told me that they don’t see any tampering. Long story short: I got robbed of a lot of money, injected poison, and am now in danger of needing surgery if the site doesn’t get better in the next week.
Please learn from my dumb mistake. Some labs aren’t run by bodybuilders. Most are criminal organizations that won’t blink an eye if you die from their products.
There was a lab called krypto labs in Australia that was legit and pulled an exit scam. They were known for selling high mg/ml gear diluted with solvents that didn’t crash and surprisingly didn’t hurt too much according to anecdotes where people were injecting 4-700mg/ml gear (although sometimes the lab would advise to buy the gear and cut it with sterile grapeseed oil etc to dilute)
One day they put up this massive sale, like 60-80% off and all sorts of exotic compounds like primo, DHB, var etc listed for amazing prices… And then the reports come in
This lab was previously in good standing with the bodybuilding community here, and now people were suddenly mass reporting EXTREME PIP, fever, ER visits related to gear contamination and then POOF… the lab is gone, the supplier disappears… massive exit scam using contaminated, faulty and severely underdosed gear (or nothing was in it at all)
People still kept purchasing as they had a longstanding good rep in the Aussie steroid community for quite a few years… like 3-5 years as a trusted supplier (or perhaps longer?) and overnight they went full rogue.
Same thing goes for dark net marketplaces for illicit substances (steroids and almost anything you could imagine)… Silk road type places… They often pop up, gain a good reputation over years then pack up shop with shocking exit scams where they run off with upwards of 500 million in cryptocurrency.
There are “approved” sources on Anabolex. I work with a guy that uses one “domestically” and he hasn’t had any issues. I’m like @blshaw , I get shit from the pharmacy de Americano bc that UGL bath tub speed scares the fuck outta me. I can’t tell you if those sources are all legit or not, but I can say my coworker has made several orders and significant gains…. For what it’s worth. Hope you get well.