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Common Brand names: Anadrol (U.S) Anapolon (UK), Oxydrol (British Dragon) Doses: 25mg – 400 mg Men. 25 mg Women. Taken: Oral Common Tab sizes: 2.5 mg, 5mg and 50 mg Chemical Name: 17ß-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethylene)-17-methyl-5a-androstan-3-one
Chemical Formula:
C21H32O3 Faked: Yes, Highly fakedUCH PRODUCTS ARE NOT TAKEN, OR HAVE NO NEGATIVE EFFECTS IS NOT THE ANSWER. Oxymetholone was originally developed to treat people with anemia by effectively stimulating the production of eythropoietin (red blood cell production). EPO has now become the favored medical treatment for the same condition and so the availability of Oxymetholone has become scarce and the price has sky rocketed. At one online site is retails for almost £4 per tablet and you’ll be hard pushed to get the genuine article for less than 70 pence a tablet. Then there’s the big problem with fakes. High profits and low costs (to produce fakes) make oxy as tempting to fake as other high priced items such as GH and IGF-1 and so dealers and producers generate fakes at high speeds. In fact most oxy on the market is fake or at least low dose - period.
Other things to watch out for with genuine oxy is that the tablets count is correct. A little point and I guess the fact I am stating it to you is down to my principles. I feel that if I have paid for 100 tablets, I want a100 tablets, not 99, although a 101 I will not make a fuss about – if only! Oxydrol, which comes in sealed pouches, has been shown to be 2 – 10 tablets short of 100 fairly consistently and that means you are paying around £2 – 10 for nothing and the sellers are making that money for nothing as well. Recently though Oxydol has been a safer buy (in terms of getting the real deal for your money) than the more expensive Anapolon though things change so fast in the black market what is true at the time this goes to print may have changed. This is of course the risk anyone takes when buying illegal drugs from the darkest corners of the gym and alley ways and we cannot go crying to the producers when such things happen. We make the choice to take them and we must accept that such things can and do happen. What we can do is arm ourselves with the knowledge needed to protect against becoming yet another bodybuilder who has sent his money down the river only to see it sunk before it reached the safety of the shore. Oxymetholone is considered the most powerful of all anabolic steroids, and the one with the most potential side effects. Many in the know actually do not like oxy for pure gains. It is high cost, high risk and after you cease taking Oxymetholone your gains go as fast as they were achieved often leaving the user as small as before Oxymetholone was taken. This means you spend lots of money, risk your health and then end up typically in the same place you started if you do not continue your cycle with another steroid. The reputation of oxy is well deserved, although sometimes over-hyped. It does give you massive weight gains in a short period of time, but that alone is not enough reason to take it unless you know a few keys things.
This article covers all these points but the sensible among you must always do more reading, more research before taking such a powerful compound. We bodybuilders often do not read as much as we should and we miss out on so much progress in all areas of life that can be gained through gaining as big an appetite in reading as we do with eating! Only don’t eat books, the hardbacks are a bugger to swallow! Just one 50 mg tablet a day is often more than enough for substantial results in most mortals and this in itself is a risk because psychologically if you get from one tablet the same results as a multi compound stack the risk that some users actually consider oxy a cost effective steroid and stay on it for long periods. Not good. Never judge a stack by how much money you can save, rather how healthy it is and what results you can achieve and keep from following it. Oxy side effects are long and plentiful rather like my local post ladies legs. Little (if you consider such things little) common side effects are; hair loss, a general unwell feeling (oxy flu). The flu like feeling can actually be counterproductive making many users feel unable to train or eat properly and many users get stomach cramps on oxy and find their appetite gets lowered as well. It is the only steroid unequivocally linked to cancer. Oxy hammers the liver like Lennox Lewis hammering Mike Tyson after Mike threatened to eat his dog. After just 2 weeks on the stuff the needle on the liver safety dial starts going into the red in relation to your liver health. Your doctor will probably suffer from a small heart attack himself when he sees your liver readings and no doubt give you a leaflet called ‘Your own death and how to deal with it.’ Ideally Oxy should be used on its own, or at the very, very least as part of a stack that does not involve another liver hammering product, i.e Dianabol. Evidence suggests that when Oxy is used as part of a stack, the side effects go through the roof and your liver can start giving you little warnings such as Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes) and you could even risk hepatitis. Liv 52 or similar product like Milk Thistle is a must. If you cannot be bothered to take a liver protection with every steroid cycle you are taking a huge and unneeded risk with your health. Another bonus from taking a liver product is it can improve your appetite. It is best to use it on its own, maybe to kick start your stack and then continue therapy with something else such as testosterone. The huge water retention you will no doubt gain will also raise your blood pressure. Remember in the film Carry on Doctor when Sid James is lying in bed having his blood pressure taken, he then spots Barbara Windsor fitting into a tight fitted nurse’s uniform and BOOM! – the pressure gauge explodes. This is similar to the effect oxy can have on your blood pressure. Blood pressure is a clear and present danger because it is a bonifide killer and often you will feel nothing is wrong until it is too late. Damage to internal organs and your heart may only be realized years later perhaps many years after you cease taking gear altogether. When things such as seeing your grandchildren grow up seems more important than building another inch on your arms. With correct application and protective measures you can have a huge arms and see your grandchildren grow up. Living for the moment is crazy when taking serious products like oxy and taking products to reduce side effects and save your health is a must. If not for you, then for those around you that do care about your health and who want to share a long life with you. You may not care much for your health today but when it fails you will be in a world of hurt and will no doubt regret that you did not take such measures, which are only a little extra expense and effort to supplement to your oxy cycle. The time when most people say they wished they had looked after their health is when they are actually ill and in pain. Live for the moment, that’s a good philosophy, but do so after all protection measures have been taken. I have been there and am not preaching – no way. In my past I didn’t think one bit about what I was taking or doing was having on my health. But now I have a wife and two children and my priorities have changed and now I now do keep an eye on my health because I have people who rely on me and I want to be around to walk through this life with them until a natural end. Those family men and women reading this will understand. If you can afford a stack, you should be able to afford the protective measures that go along with it, especially if you can afford oxy. This does not take out the risk completely but it minimizes it. Jumping out a plane without checking your parachute is more risky than checking it before the jump. In both cases however you can still be unlucky enough that the parachute does not open. That’s life. So how do we minimize side effects from taking oxy? You can reduce blood pressure by reducing water retention. Two effective ways are by using an anti-estrogen throughout the cycle such as Nolvadex at 30 – 40 mg per day. Who cares about the rumour (and it is pretty much nothing more) that you may get 5% less gains. By the same thinking you still get 95% the same gains and those gains will be healthier and better quality and believe me a 10lb quality gain will look better than 25lbs of fat and water gain. The other is by using Glycerol (aka glycerine). This is explained in detail elsewhere in this website and in the Manifesto, but it works by soaking up excess water retention when taken correctly. Blood pressure pills are an option but a last resort as you need to take very big care with them as these may add more of a risk than the oxy itself. The best way is to monitor your blood pressure daily which is easy enough now that blood pressure kits are widely available and pretty cheap. You can then take the needed steps immediately you see it going into the danger zone rather than waiting until you are sitting in the frying pan. An anti-estrogen is also a must to avoid getting bigger tits than Pamela Anderson after a trip to the cosmetic surgeon. Oxy can happily give you boobs that would look great on a woman but not so nice on a hairy guy with 20 inch arms. Although in today’s world I guess that is down to personal preference. Due to the large water retention you may find that previously troublesome joints are now pain free, this is a good thing for many. A tremendous ‘oxy pump’ is also common and can be so intense that you may find you need to stop training that body part! Forget the nonsense that pros using 10 50 mg oxy a day. Suppliers of the products they are trying to push often start these rumors and other gym rats perpetuate it. It’s the same as the drinking culture of some people. ‘I can tolerate 10 pints’ says one guy and the other guy says ‘I can tolerate 20!’. Who cares? I don’t drink very often and when I do I can get happy on two pints of beer. I remember being ribbed by a friend who called me a ‘lightweight’ (meaning I get drunk easier) and he thought he was quite above me because he could, he assured me, drink 20 pints and be alcohol happy. I pointed out to him that he had spent 19 times the money and risked his health 19 xs more than I had done and yet we both had got the same results. He now drinks less.
Four 50 mg oxy tablets should be a human beings maximum dose and never on your first cycle. Why risk your health when you can get gains from one or half a tab a day? Yes the insert says you can take much more but it has been shown to give you more trouble than it is worth. A rough rule of thumb is to take 0.5 mg – 0.6 mg per lb of lean bodyweight. More than this is taken for sure, but is more often than not an unneeded excess. Can you gain huge amounts of weight on oxy? Are the whispers true? Well firstly I have noticed from users that you have to have something for the water retention to blow out. If you are skinny with no muscles and take oxy you’ll just look the same, just a little ‘puffy’. If you have some muscle to begin with and then take oxy the product will blow out those muscles – big time. Here is some real feedback from users:
‘When I took oxy, within 4 weeks I had shot up by a stone and had 1 inch bigger arms’ ▬ ‘I took oxy and had to give it up because it made me feel to bloated and unwell.’ ▬ ‘I took oxy and within 6 weeks I was transformed. I was however pretty advanced and had a fair bit of muscle already which I think gave me better results’ ▬ ‘I took oxy and got good results but they all disappeared within 14 days of stopping the product.’
When used sensibly for very short durations (typically no longer than 21 days) and with proper protective measures oxy can give good results in both size and strength. When stopped another product such as testosterone should be used to ensure as much of the gains as possible is retained.
Basic Example stack *
* Anti-estrogen used throughout and up to four weeks after week 8. Liv 52 at 20 tabs per day throughout. This cycle is basic and is one that Agent-X has used with continued success. There are many combinations to try and plenty of places to get information, just remember the safety warnings. There is a legitimate and controversial question that comes out after all the hype of oxy has been discussed. It is controversial because many authors who have made their names writing about oxy were also dealers and or have made certain statements on oxy with which people comment on. How much actual pure muscle tissue does oxy actually give you? Yes it blows out existing muscle (which shows why people who have no muscle and use oxy don’t look much better for it) and adds monstrous weight gains in little time, but this is due to water retention, not always from pure muscle gains. Yes the increase blood cell production, androgens and strength can all assist real gains but too many times we have seen people loss ALL there gains from oxy and this is really a case of going around in circles which makes oxy a really expensive rollercoaster ride. Oxy is a raw drug and does not bind well to the receptor site which is why it comes in a massive 50 mg tab (the tab is not actually massive just the dose, when compared to 2mg winstrol or 5 mg d-bol) It has to hit hard with 50 mg because less produced a lesser therapeutic effect. Each 50 mg of oxy is equal to around 50 mg of d-bol and d-bol will give better results with less side effects, though at this dose not always by much. Oxymetholone has its uses but these are primarily limited to the advanced bodybuilder for making the body more vascular before a show (when stacked with anti-estrogens, diuretics etc) and for heavy mass cycles and even used in between standard cycles to keep gains. This last use however is a fairly expensive and risky way to achieve this. I would actually say that only competitive bodybuilders should take it but of course we know that this recommendation will fall upon deaf ears and is not even what I myself adhered to as I have been, as many readers are, a curious breed and like to experiment, but only after reading up about it and taking measures to take it as safely and effectively as humanly possible. Oxy Tips
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