By default, we are experts. Haven’t you met an engineer yet?
FTR, my source has really good pricing, so brewing lost it’s appeal.
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I have to imagine the risk is higher than just buying and using it, but I am certainly NOT going to be selling it. I will be a drugee but not a drug dealer.
I’m not sure what would prompt the police to come to my house and search it. but I have never given anyone a reason to suspect anything is going on in my house. Maybe I am just optimistic or naive.
Also, my TRT doc is making $200/mo from me for quarterly blood draws (male hormone panels only) and 5 vials of test/year, plus syringes and alcohol wipes. So he’s spending probably $350-500 per year on me to make $2400. I am thinking I could save myself a bit of money doing it this way.
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I do have 9 different compounds that I am going to brew, only two of which are test.
I completely understand your viewpoint with respect to legality. Again, maybe I am just optimistic or naïve, but I do not believe I have anything to worry about as far as getting into legal trouble (by that I mean I don’t believe LEO’s will come knocking on my door anytime in the near future). Luckily the area in which I live is an area in which everyone just leaves each other alone for the most part, and the area in which I live does not draw any LE attention either. I know that neither of these means that I would never run into trouble, but I do believe my chances are VERY slim.
This is not to say that I trust the government, because I do not in the slightest, but I won’t go down that rabbit hole today.
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I think @mnben87 was being facetious. There are in fact a lot of mechanical engineers that believe they are God’s gift to mankind, but I don’t see him as actually believing that.
While I do believe most engineers have an excellent understanding of pretty much the entire physical world, there are still plenty of “dumb” engineers that still believe they are smarter than everyone else. It’s laughable really. There is a lot more to Earth and the “human experience” than simply understanding that the square block doesn’t fit in the round hole.
Elon Musk said it best:
“There is a big difference between being educated and being intelligent”
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Yep, this is exactly what I meant. Some engineers think they are experts in many fields they are not. Many will argue endlessly on a topic. Just something I noticed being an engineer, and working with other engineers.
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Lately, I have been getting annoyed with one of my engineer buddies that seems to think he is an expert of powerlifting programming. He just shits on so many coaches, and will describe why they are so dumb. Just his confidence that he is absolutely right is what drives me nuts.
I am also guilty of being over confident at times. Working on that though.
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My favorite is always the guys that read one article on something and think they’re the expert
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To be fair to this guy, he does do his research. I think he somewhat disregards personal experience, which I think in something like lifting weights is useful.
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Hence the saying ‘trust me I’m an engineer’
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Without going into detail I will say that the risks are not quite as high as you may think.
Hi from week 1-8 u were taking Test c & NPP but y did u took HCG 500iu twice a week.? Is it because NPP belongs from Nandrolone family.??
My HCG use was unrelated to the NPP. I was using HCG because I felt like it was better for my sexual health. Recently my TRT doc told me the HCG was no longer included with my service and would cost me a lot more. So I stopped using it a couple of weeks ago now. I feel fine though. I think the past sexual health issues I had were from high E2, which is not something I was managing/controlling during my first 3 of cycles. Now that I am, I don’t notice a difference without the HCG
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day 21 Update:
I had to increase my AI. I started getting a small lump of gyno on my left pec and my blood pressure started creeping up. Instead of taking .25 mg anastrazole 2x/wk I will be taking it every 3 days, not a huge increase in frequency, but if needed I will bump it up to EOD. To combat the gyno and high BP, I took .25 mg on back to back days, but will stick with E3D for now until I have proof that I need more.
So far my BP has been around 125/80 for this cycle, but for a day it got up to 140/90 and came back down over a few days. Today it was back at 123/77. My RHR is still just below 60 most days.
Yesterday I hit a huge PR on incline bench. However, I also took 10 mg of halo about 30 minutes before my workout started. I had never tried it and I wanted to see how I respond. Frankly, I liked it and I will be using it again. I didn’t feel increased aggression or anger, it just felt like I was having an excellent gym day where everything felt light. Maybe 20-30mg would do that? I felt great with 10 though and will likely just stick with that whenever I decide to use it again.
Incline bench is not exactly a brag worthy lift, but I hit 335 touch-and-go for an RPE 7.5 single. That was a 30 lb PR and I was 20 lbs lighter than last time I hit 305. I had plenty more in the tank (probably could’ve gone up to 360) but my left elbow was kinda bugging me and frankly I just didn’t feel comfortable taking it higher than that without risking injury.
I do believe the halo helped me some, but how much I don’t really know. I haven’t gone over about 265 on incline bench, probably since I hit my last PR back in I think Jan 2020.
Also, I do not feel beat down or anything today (some people say they feel a type of halo “hangover”), just sore from a workout and tired because my smoke detector had a dying battery and then I couldn’t go back to sleep after changing the batteries.
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All PRs are brag worthy. If the comparison that you’re working with is yourself then it’s the best indicator of progress.
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This always happens in the middle of the night. I have never had a smoke detector die during non-sleeping hours. I could swear they’re programmed to do this.
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If it was just the beeping, I may have been able to drown it out. But this one also has a ladies voice that says “low battery”. So I had to change it because it kept me up. Then in order to reset the low battery message, it is REQUIRED that you test the system, which of course causes ALL of the smoke detectors to go off at the same time and get your adrenaline going and wake up everyone in the house.
Fuck, I’m getting angry just typing this out
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They really are a bitch. I rented a basement while I’m college, and the land lord was a bit lazy. I had to listen to the vacant apartment’s alarm above mine for about a week. Drove me crazy.
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Makes sense! I do like to be cold when I sleep.
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Day 29 Update:
So I am learning that either a) I am a hard aromatizer, or b) MENT aromatizes HARD, which I believe is more of a function of the methylestradiol rather than a higher amount of aromatization. I have run dbol at 50 mg/day before but I didn’t notice this much aromatization. To be fair I also was not as “in-tune” with my body and gear usage when I last used dbol.
I started getting gyno again, so I threw in nolva at 20 mg/day, which seems to be greatly helping with water retention (and BP as a second order effect from water retention) and with the gyno. The lump has reduced in size but my nipples are still sensitive.
I have read that it is ok, but less effective to use anastrazole and nolvadex, and that I should probably switch to ralox from nolva and exemestane from anastrazole if I plan to run the AI and SERM combo for the duration of my cycle (I still have about 12 weeks left on cycle). However, in about 30 days I am swapping the NPP for tren ace, so I will drop from 3 aromatizing compounds down to 2. I am also aware that nand doesn’t aromatize much at all compared to test and MENT. So any input in this would be greatly appreciated.
Otherwise, I have good news to report. I signed up with a nutritionist to help me “get over the hump” body composition wise and I am now down to 242 (started at 247 three weeks ago). My goal is to hit 240, and then I would like to recomp from there. Currently, if I had to guesstimate my BF, I am around 15%. My baseline I am using is when a BodPod told me I was 16.7% back in March and I am quite a bit leaner and I weigh about 4-5 lbs less now than I did then, and I probably have 1-2 lbs more lean tissue now than I did then. I plan to hop back in the bodpod probably late August/early Sept to get another measurement.
I am also getting stronger and faster still while dropping weight, and my workouts are not suffering from any sort of lack of energy or lethargy. I could get into all of the details of the dietary changes, but this is the pharma forum, so I’ll leave it out unless anyone is curious.
I have also considered dropping the MENT from 10md/day to 5-6, but I’m really enjoying the compound aside from the aromatization, and would prefer to use that as a last resort.
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Isn’t the former the brand name of the latter?
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