43 yrs old, 6’1" 207 lbs. Started first ever cycle 4 weeks ago with Sustanon 250 at 1.2ml drawn a week and administered on a friday in the glute. Got really tender and some swelling a day after that lasted for a few days solid. Started a new trainer who insisted to switch products and he put me on Sustanon 400 at .75ml and Bold 300 .70ml twice a week. First injection was tuesday monring and was into the right glute and the next day found major inflamation in my lower back on that side at the Si joint. Thought maybe I caused this from back and then leg day as I have had back issues prior but never this kind of inflamation. No redness but definitely super sore and raised.
Then I did my second injection friday mid morning same dose into my left quad to give my back and glute room to breath and by that afternoon started to not feel well. Came down with a 102 fever, fought it for hours with motrin and tylenol. My heart was high at 100-130 bpm and the high heart rate stayed there most of this weekend. My left quad is in a lot of pain with noticable swelling. No redness and not really hot to touch either. I have iced off and on and keep taking tylenol. Assuming I am having a alergic reaction over and above standard soreness and some swelling after an injection? Anything I can do to combat this swollen quad with pretty painful movements? My back is starting to come down on the swelling and I was going to try to get into cryotherapy today to see if that would help.
Trainer is dumb. That kind of concentration for gear mixed with Tprop in the Sus is asking for pain and inflammation. Go back to Sus250 if you must, but here lies the real question. Why are you taking Sus/Eq in the first place?
Why the sus and eq? As a complete greenhorn to this I trusted what the trainer suggested. Aside from pip when I did my first and then a week later second sus250 at 1.2ml so 300 per week, I felt great, big appetite, felt strong, good sex drive. But the trainer latched on and pulled me from my own self prescribed product I got for myself and got me this regimen which I 100% can’t do anymore of. My quad is so swollen still today after Fridays injection I can barely walk. I just did cryotherapy and red light therapy to try to help and I plan on doing those each day this week to get my body back to feeling good.
I’m 44 years old I’ve been commercially Landscaping since age 11 and own my own companies I attend the gym at least 5 days a week and am extremely healthy but have always struggled to put on any size with a proper diet. I don’t partake in sugary Foods I don’t drink or smoke and as I’ve aged I feel my drive has dropped a bit and took the plunge.
All bad reasons but this one is the concerning one. That could mean you won’t recover well when you stop because you may already have some form or low related T. I’d have gone that route first as you’re likely to lose your anabolic related gains anyway.
I appreciate your feedback. Do you have suggestions? At the moment after my very bad reaction to last tuesdays and fridays injections, I’m still in recovery mode. My quad is still swelled up pretty good and doing cryotherapy and red light therapy to help with my quad and lower back. I’ve done nothing this week in total fear of making anything worse and I clearly had a reaction above and beyond normal pip with this stack. If I do anything I may just go back to the sus 250 I had done 2 weeks of prior to this stack that screwed me up. I was doing 1.2ml of the sus 250 and I felt like a million bucks besides some initial pip that now I have learned is to be expected from a foreign oil being introduced to the body its never seen.
Again with the life habits. For my company I do all the construction. Extremely physical all day long, very long days. Mostly doing stone and brick work. So at 44, 6’1" 205 lbs ish I have stayed here for years. I then hit the gym with a very structured plan. This again was my reasoning to try this. I assume most on here being that they are on here wanted more gains then they were seeing. My diet has always been clean, ample and life habits above par.
I take all of your feedback seriously and again, thank you for staying with me on this post
My advice is stay away from Sust. I’ve never had anything but problems with it. If you’re gonna do test/eq (I do this sometimes as I’m on TRT, and I find a super low dose of EQ gives me a nice little bump without sides) stick with TestCypionate.
No pip, no swelling. But you also have to make sure you’re aspirating before you inject, and make sure you’re in the muscle and not the fat. I inject in my thighs with a 1" needle and never have issues (I’ve got super low body fat on my legs or I’d use a 1.5" needle)
I feel the best when my test is high, so don’t take my levels as a guide, but I was doing 300mg TestC/100mg EQ (combined in one shot) every 5 days and felt amazing.
For reference, I’m 38, 5’8" and weigh about 200#. Eat fairly clean and do some activity each week. But my natural test production was trash, so my trt doses are high. Last time I checked, test was like 1400.