RoidmeDangerfield
Member
Hello, all. Happy New Year.
It's been a while since I posted here. With the shutdowns and no gyms open in the area I lived and recently moved to I have bee holding off using gear. But now that I'm going to have a pretty nice power rack and weights at home I'm looking to start up gear again. So I plan to be a regular here again.
Seems like there is quite a bit of information suggesting that young men who use heavy cycles can be more prone to heart disease. This can range from impaired ventricular function as well as developing more arterial plaque that can lead to blockages and a heart attack can result.
I'm curious to know if anyone here has suffered heart disease or a heart attack and was it caused by heavy gear usage? Also, aside from self monitoring such as getting bloodwork done to check lipids/cholesterol levels what can be done to prevent the accumulation of plaque? It seems that even though guys who lift and eat very well can get send their lipids and cholesterol levels out of whack when on heavy cycles.
Just wondering if there are others out there who might be taking measures to help decrease the chance of suffering heart disease - what are you actually doing?
I'm turning fifty this year. I am on a 100mg per week dose of testosterone that is medically prescribed. Once Spring hits I hope to increase my dose and add other things like anavar or possibly tren which I have on hand but am now wondering if I'm too old. Just last month I met a guy at the gym who was very candid about his prior steroid use. He said he had a heart attack and that it was caused by his heavy use of testosterone and tren. When I asked him how much he was taking he said he was taking 1 gram of test a week with 600mg of tren. I told him that was insanely high for a man in his early fifties. If I were to do both I'd take 200-300mg of test a week with 300-400mg of tren a week. But now I'm not so sure I should chance it.
It's been a while since I posted here. With the shutdowns and no gyms open in the area I lived and recently moved to I have bee holding off using gear. But now that I'm going to have a pretty nice power rack and weights at home I'm looking to start up gear again. So I plan to be a regular here again.
Seems like there is quite a bit of information suggesting that young men who use heavy cycles can be more prone to heart disease. This can range from impaired ventricular function as well as developing more arterial plaque that can lead to blockages and a heart attack can result.
I'm curious to know if anyone here has suffered heart disease or a heart attack and was it caused by heavy gear usage? Also, aside from self monitoring such as getting bloodwork done to check lipids/cholesterol levels what can be done to prevent the accumulation of plaque? It seems that even though guys who lift and eat very well can get send their lipids and cholesterol levels out of whack when on heavy cycles.
Just wondering if there are others out there who might be taking measures to help decrease the chance of suffering heart disease - what are you actually doing?
I'm turning fifty this year. I am on a 100mg per week dose of testosterone that is medically prescribed. Once Spring hits I hope to increase my dose and add other things like anavar or possibly tren which I have on hand but am now wondering if I'm too old. Just last month I met a guy at the gym who was very candid about his prior steroid use. He said he had a heart attack and that it was caused by his heavy use of testosterone and tren. When I asked him how much he was taking he said he was taking 1 gram of test a week with 600mg of tren. I told him that was insanely high for a man in his early fifties. If I were to do both I'd take 200-300mg of test a week with 300-400mg of tren a week. But now I'm not so sure I should chance it.
