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I do HIIT 3x a weeks as well as regular steady state moderate cardio, SSB squatted 315 x 20 a couple weeks ago and generally think of myself as reasonably fit. However my HR is always higher than I'd like, my BP resting was 110/68 as of a few minutes ago but my HR is always in the high 80s...

The more I read, it appears that LV relaxation is potentially caused by fibrosis, which ties in with the ND causing cardiac fibrosis theory I'm hoping it can be reversed with high dose niacin, increasing my ACE inhibitor dose to 20mg lisinopril (will ask about ramipril as it seems better in...

Assuming I keep running ND is 50mg a week going to have the desired therapeutic affect on collagen synthesis? 100mg doesn't seem to have done shit for my knees or shoulder post surgery TBH so I'm wondering if it's even worth including The study that showed its 100x more toxic to artery...

Echo came back as normal apart from grade 1 LV relaxation, ejection fraction 60% so asymptomatic I'll discuss this with my cardiologist but he's very anti AAS in general so he'll just tell me to stop TRT I cant find anything specifically pointing to ND as causing LV relaxation but who knows. I...

Thanks for the insight guys, raising ferritin to pre donation levels that quickly would be great, what brand do you use for the Ferrous bisglycinate chelate? I feel like just doing a double red twice a year vs wasting any more time with the hematologist to be honest, its nice to get the...

It's interesting that the TT was so close between the 2 groups I've tried SubQ a few times in the past as I hate the idea of IM scar tissue, but my TT mg for mg and on the same frequency (3x weekly) has always been significantly lower on SubQ

This is true, as I get older I seem to lose more muscle every time I cut even though I try to maximize volume and keep the weights as heavy as possible. My DB bench for example only dropped from 120 x 15 to 110 x 15 after losing 30lbs a couple months back but my arms, chest and shoulders all...

Thanks for the link Nelson! Yes, my BP is usually 115/70 I've not donated blood for 3 months and my HCT was 47 this morning so I had to tell the hematologist PA to go away and stop trying to get me to donate every 2 weeks to get to the "magic" 45 lol. She is a complete idiot and doesn't care...

For years I've been on 200mg test and 100md ND a week, split into multiple shots. The deca is because I have moderate osteoarthritis and have had multiple surgeries on my shoulders, hips and knees over the years and prefer not to ever take NSAIDS if possible As I'm turning 46 next year I feel...

No to either. Agreed, this cardiologist certainly isn't someone I'd pick myself, but this state requires referrals to see specialists and I've been unable to find another one. He has a strong apparent bias to vegetarianism (which I assume is because of his religious beliefs) so attempts to...

Thank you for the detailed reply! I may try dropping to 100mg test with ND to make up the other 50mg. It's odd that my HCT is affected just as much by legit TRT doses as it was by mega doses in the past, it's starting to seem that a tiny bit or a huge amount over a certain threshold is enough to...

https://www.labcorp.com/tests/123810/nmr-lipoprofile-with-lipids-with-graph My cardiologist is an old school guy and mostly useless (insists all TRT is bad, wants to do a bruce treadmill protocol test on me even though I've had multiple knee and hip surgeries and other protocols would be better...

Madman do you know of any other drugs that could be used in TRT that don't raise HCT? Nandrolone and Anavar are both possible to substitute in for testosterone with progressive doctors, but both also raise HCT just as much as test does With the negatives associated with repeated phlebotomies...

I have been taking lisinopril for a decade, hence my interest in that drug. I can definitely ask my TRT doc for Telmisartan but I'm hoping that the lisinopril I've been using has helped mitigate some of the potential risk

Great posts guys, very informative and interesting If ACE is an issue would that imply that an ACE inhibitor like lisinopril would be doubly cardio protective in this case?

I honestly can't say, the guy I was closest to (as in he would show me his medicine cabinet lol) was on test as well as ND. His doctor was a lot more generous than mine at the time so I assume he was pushing the upper limits of whatever is legal to prescribe He was also on serostim but he felt...

I have friends from my time living in SF who were HIV+, and who were on nandrolone for long periods with no issues beyond them all looking amazing for their age

There is one infamous idiot kid on getbig who gave himself a heart attack by running 2 grams of deca for months with pre existing conditions, but otherwise yes I haven't seen anyone with issues from it. My Dr has me doing a echo and treadmill stress test to see if everything is OK next month so...

I've torn my bicep and my quad but never a pec Honestly I think it's better to do higher reps, preferably paused and slow with dumbbells. I try to do 3 worksets of 15-20 with the 100s and very rarely go higher unless I'm doing a floor press (which has reduced ROM and I use a more elbows in...

I've been reading a lot of seemingly conflicting information on nandrolone and would like to know what is considered the current thinking on its cardio toxicity https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8609832/ Studies like this concern me but the abstract doesn't mention the dose the monkeys were...

Really, it's not dose dependent? To be honest it was mid 50s when I ran gram a week cycles as a dumb kid so maybe you're onto something

Update on this thread, I took a 6 month break from donating and my HCT jumped back to 55 Every 3 months seems excessive but it seems like I'd need to do that to stay under 50 HCT I'm debating dropping my dose a bit to 150mg test and 50mg nandrolone since I'm currently on 200 test/50 ND My...

Not yet,as I understand it ferritin is reserve iron so if my circulating iron is still normal I won't feel it yet? I dont know how that works honestly but I feel "ok" still I was having high HCT issues previously tho, itchy skin, flushed and a weird tingly feeling plus head feeling "tight"

PCP tested me at @45, which is in line with the 47.7 minus another half donation that they insisted in doing on the 47.7 day because it was still "too high" (yeah, I know) My ferritin is tanked however, its at 33 which the perky Hematologist PA insisted was "absolutely normal and desirable...

RDW goes up after donations, I gave blood twice in 2 weeks so I expect it to be elevated My ferritin is what worries me and they didn't test that :(

Here's the last from the hematologist, down 5 points on the 2nd donation They insist they are accurate so I'm going to get my primary care doc to do another stick tomorrow

My hematologist has been measuring my HCT ever week since ND pushed it up to 60, after 2 full donations I dropped back down to 47 which was great. His office does the CBC test in house and claims 100% accuracy (as they should given their specialty) However I had bloodwork done at labcorp for my...

Yeah I had another blood test 2 days after that 52 and it was back up to 57 (after 2 donations in 2 weeks) I don't really understand what's happening so stopped ND completely,can hydration explain a 5 point loss then gain in days??

It could be because I injected 100mg the day before and had worked out intensely a couple of days before? To clarify "so high" is 1.4 to 1.5 max

For 10 years I've been told several times by various doctors that my kidneys are failing so it was nice to finally have proof that I'm fine! This means it's safe to keep using my lisinopril with hczt I guess? One dr told me I needed to stop using that because of my "kidney damage" and he had me...

Bump because I never updated this My current TRT blood work has me at Traditional eGFR = 58 Cystatin C = 0.73 eGFR calculated from Cystatin C = 116 That's a pretty huge difference!! ( using CKD-EPI Equations for Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) - MDCalc )