T3 Cycling Reconsidered

[Amp]

This is a very late response but I just noticed it.

I had a nice stack going that helped maintain my muscle. I was on 1gram of test, 600mg eq, 30mg dbol, 1mg EOD liquidex, 6 IU GH 5/2, and 5 IU's slin post workout.

I know the growth worked very well synergistically to help me get those effects and maintain it.

My past use has always been doing the traditional ramp up 1234321. I liked banging out 75mcgs right off the bat.

 

[Silent Method]

Interesting...

 

[Amp]

I'm doing the same thing right now but without the benefit of growth.

I'm on 1gram test, 600mg eq, 40mg anavar, 60mcg clen, 75mcg T3, 1mg Liquidex EOD.

My friends can't believe how quick my abs have come in. I'm going to hit it for a total of 6 weeks at 75mcg then have blood work at the end to see where my natural levels are to see if 6 was pushing it too far. After I had did it for 4 weeks the first time my blood work showed normal TSH levels so I'm going to try to push for an extra 2 to see if that's too much. This is really the only way to see if you are really shutting down anything. Everyone's afraid of this shit but who has actually shut their thyroid down or done permanent damage? I'm sure it's possible if abused, but I'm trying to find the highest I can go without effecting my natural TSH.

 

[Silent Method]

Keep us updated...

 

[BigAndy69]

Amp, I was completely shutdown at a maximum of 50mcg for 15 days. I experience a very bad crash(especially mentally, depression). I was definetely shutdown.

It's a very tricky drug that effects people differently.

 

[Themachine01]

how did you know that you were completely shut down?

 

[BigAndy69]

how did you know that you were completely shut down?

Weight gain despite my diet, extreme lethargy(and I really mean extreme), feeling cold in warm weather, depression...all the symptoms of hypothyroidism.

 

[norr]

Hey, BigAndy69

I have to say I am intrigued by your novel approach in T3 administration and I was considering adding it to my upcomming cycle at 12.5mg/day like you said. I have one question though; if you take 12.5mg every 24hours but the halflife of T3 is 60hours, doesn't that mean your dosage will eventually build up to suppressive levels? Please clear out, thanks.

 

[Amp]

That's interesting that you felt that after 15 days at 50mcg. It is true that everything affects everyone differently but that seems pretty extreme. What else were you using up until the crash? Any gear, clen, eca, extreme low cal diet? These are all things that can contribute to that kind of crash. You don't really know what your thyroid was doing unless you had the bloodwork.

I crashed once at the end of a bulking cycle. I took the last 2 weeks to cut up. The problem was I cut my cals very low and wasn't using an antiestrogen. After the 2 weeks I went to normal eating and my waist grew so fast I have very bad stretch marks around my waist and love handles. The estrogen buildup created my first bad fatty deposits around my lower abs and love handles. The low calorie diet and coming off gear was responsible for lowering my thyroid levels. I wasn't even using T3 at all - and when I had my bloodwork done my TSH levels were way below normal. I had blood taken again and after 3 weeks they were back to normal but the damage was already done and I was fatter much fatter around the waist than before the 2 week diet.

Cutting calories too low is enough to lower your bodies thyroid levels. This is it's own way to adapt and survive on lower calories. Your body doesn't want to burn fat, it wants to hold it so by dropping thyroid levels your base metabolic rate dramatically lowers. This is why T3 can be so beneficial while dieting. You don't have to cut your calories so low that you are in starvation mode and you have high enough thyroid levels to keep burning fast. When you come off the diet, eating regular again you will deposit fat quickly until your bodies TSH levels are back to normal (the premise of yo yo dieting). And everyone recovers at different rates so there isn't really any baseline to go by.

 

[spotlift]

One thing i learned is to watch what you are doing with the prescription and mixing them. I was trying to really loose some body fat and was cycling clen and t3 together. I was getting migrain, which I am prone to. The combination triggered them after a few days of taking them. Not a good side effect. Good thing i figured it out and got a handle on it. . oh had a few pain klliers to help too. The clen alone is fine, I can make it to 6 a day. Still have the t3, not sure if it alone will trigger them. . a little tense about trying them again.