Hey
@ShelbyGT500 I’m no guru and new around here but I read your thread with interest and saw mostly stuff about new member intros and whatever. Fwiw I knew to post an intro because I had been reading here long before I joined and saw the flak newbs got for posting before intro-ing.
I’m no guru with elite info here, but I’m working on some gold tops from opti. Here’s my HGH story and maybe it’ll be helpful and or spark more relevant discussion.
I had done a tesamorelin cycle (8 weeks) with bloodwork & dexa scans before & after. I’m on a long cut/recomp and keep motivated and healthy by logging EVERYTHING, so I was able to keep the tesamorlin cycle *somewhat* scientific- I did change some other variables- T up from 200 to 300, some mild metabolism boost peps, 2mg reta. So if this was tuning a drag car it would be easier to see what caused the change in performance if I only changed one thing at a time, but it is what it is.
On the tesamorelin (2mg before bed) I saw igf-1 go from mid range to near top of range, and after 8 weeks I had lost 7lbs with the dexa reporting 1.8lbs lean mass increase. Medical center, same time of day, fasted, hydrated. Not gospel but a good report card. I did notice a slight preference to visceral fat loss compared to fat loss just on trt- on dexa and on the tailor’s tape. Improved sleep and recovery yes but also 50% raise in Testosterone could be doing a lot of that.
So I liked the improved GH from the peptide but it’s too expensive so I looked into just doing GH and cutting out the peptide middleman. My research lead me to try a kit of Opti gray tops. I’m not gonna shill for them but the purchase was smooth and I quickly got up to 4iu/day with no sides except a couple days of tight sneakers that went away and a few times waking up with a numb hand. Slept like a baby otherwise, nails growing noticably faster, haven’t gotten new bloodwork yet but I’m only looking to do a high cruise during my cut for some months then only to compliment future blasts.
The gray tops weren’t expensive but wow their higher iu kits looked cheeeap. More research. Found reports of people filtering, and cloudy kits blown out on sale prices, except for the 40iu gold tops. Almost no grumbles, reports of reconstituting clear even at higher than advisable concentration with 2ml.
I started going back & forth between gray and gold tops and felt the same at 6iu. I’ve since switched to using only gold tops and bought enough to last thru my cut with some for a low cruise and a blast or two after.
I recon with 3ml and pin AM/PM. I like to recon the night that I’m almost done the last bottle- by the next morning it’s clear like water.
Hopefully some more smartner folks chime in for you but from all the searching and reading I’ve done we made a solid choice and can hopefully trust the gold tops to do what we want them to as far as well priced generics go.
