malfeasance
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Blood pressure is an issue for many with steroids. Blood pressure is also an issue with age. A guy in his 20s might run a heavy cycle with 120/70. Thirty years later that same cycle might drive him to 165/95.
Even young, blood pressure can do damage, e.g., Bostin Lloyd is now on dialysis, and what is he, 30? His blood pressure was elevated for a long time. Regardless of your age, check your blood pressure on cycle and control it. Anything over 130/80 harms kidney function. You don't want to be harming it at an early age. Remember, kidney function will decline with age, anyway. You are not special. Yours will, too. You do not want to hasten this process earlier in life with uncontrolled blood pressure.
Things I have found that work and do not work. First, I am in my 50s. My blood pressure has given me trouble and seems to get harder to control as I get older.
Things that did not work for me:
Carditone monotherapy
Cialis as monotherapy
Things that did work for me:
Prescription meds (lisinopril, losartan, and telmisartan all showed improvements).
Controlling estrogen.
Cutting fat
Things that work but are intolerable:
Lisinopril with HCTZ
The last one combines a diuretic with a blood pressure medication. Combining the two works better at reducing blood pressure. The problem was that it induces horrible cramping even at small doses (12.5 mg). It only takes one or two days for this effect to kick in. I tried taking in more salt, potassium, magnesium, etc., but nothing prevented the cramping. It negatively affected my ability to work out.
My blood pressure recently crept up to 160/92 during a stressful time in my life when my blood pressure medication also ran out. I was scrambling around trying to find leftover old meds to control it until the new stuff arrived. It was floating around anywhere from 130/80 to 154/92.
Then two things happened. My telmisartan arrived, and my blood tests came back.
My blood tests showed my cholesterol had returned to normal, so I started test/deca and hgh. Growing again.
The blood test showed my estrogen way high (like 3x the upper end high) even on trt levels (and I think I need to decrease what I think is trt because my total test and free test were WAY high, as in my free test was more than 5x the high end of the normal range).
So I started taking the telmisartan (80mg daily). I also took for three days in a row 25 mg of aromasin, then stopped for two days.
My blood pressure this morning was 110/62, which is lower than it has been in maybe a decade, maybe two.
We'll see if it stays there, but I bet getting estrogen down was the difference.
Even young, blood pressure can do damage, e.g., Bostin Lloyd is now on dialysis, and what is he, 30? His blood pressure was elevated for a long time. Regardless of your age, check your blood pressure on cycle and control it. Anything over 130/80 harms kidney function. You don't want to be harming it at an early age. Remember, kidney function will decline with age, anyway. You are not special. Yours will, too. You do not want to hasten this process earlier in life with uncontrolled blood pressure.
Things I have found that work and do not work. First, I am in my 50s. My blood pressure has given me trouble and seems to get harder to control as I get older.
Things that did not work for me:
Carditone monotherapy
Cialis as monotherapy
Things that did work for me:
Prescription meds (lisinopril, losartan, and telmisartan all showed improvements).
Controlling estrogen.
Cutting fat
Things that work but are intolerable:
Lisinopril with HCTZ
The last one combines a diuretic with a blood pressure medication. Combining the two works better at reducing blood pressure. The problem was that it induces horrible cramping even at small doses (12.5 mg). It only takes one or two days for this effect to kick in. I tried taking in more salt, potassium, magnesium, etc., but nothing prevented the cramping. It negatively affected my ability to work out.
My blood pressure recently crept up to 160/92 during a stressful time in my life when my blood pressure medication also ran out. I was scrambling around trying to find leftover old meds to control it until the new stuff arrived. It was floating around anywhere from 130/80 to 154/92.
Then two things happened. My telmisartan arrived, and my blood tests came back.
My blood tests showed my cholesterol had returned to normal, so I started test/deca and hgh. Growing again.
The blood test showed my estrogen way high (like 3x the upper end high) even on trt levels (and I think I need to decrease what I think is trt because my total test and free test were WAY high, as in my free test was more than 5x the high end of the normal range).
So I started taking the telmisartan (80mg daily). I also took for three days in a row 25 mg of aromasin, then stopped for two days.
My blood pressure this morning was 110/62, which is lower than it has been in maybe a decade, maybe two.
We'll see if it stays there, but I bet getting estrogen down was the difference.
