excellent post, sides vary dramatically by person for the same dose, which is why some of the "recommendations" need to be taken as that and start with a very low dose as you did, but were hit hard/bad anyway... I personally stay away from the research chem stuff too (no offense to any of the board sponsors), mostly because it's usually easy enough for me to get T-3/Clen in pharmaceutical form directly (although Mexico seemed to be out of T-3 when I was there a few months ago, and you can get fakes if you're not carefull). The dosing of these is also in micro-grams, so any slipup along the supply chain or in your own measuring could result in a dramatically different dose than advertised/expected.
100mcg T-3, and 160-180mcg clen does great things for me, but I always check the dosage of each batch # and start low if I haven't used it, my tolerance to differnt batches of Oxyflux can vary by 40 mcgs. Never had a problem with the T-3, but many years ago I remember Sofa George said he got a bad/fake batch of that in Mexico once, nothing is perfect or guaranteed in this business...
Never will do slin, DNP, etc. though.