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Someone made a great recommendation and said that we needed a post that explains some of the usual names and abreviations for commonly known steroids.
First off we have testosterone, which can be with no ester, called testosterone suspension or testosterone no ester. It can come in either water (suspension) or in oil (no ester). It is called a suspension because the testosterone powder will not disolve in the water, it is only suspended in it. This means that you will have to shake up testosterone suspension before using it, to make sure that you get the correct concentration. Testosterone can also be with an ester, which is used to increase the active life of the drug and increase its lipid solubility. The longer the ester, the longer the active life and better the lipid (oil) solubility. Some common esters used with testosterone are propionate (3 day life), cypionate (5-6 day life), enanthate (6 day life), and deconate (10 day life). It is best to inject testosterone propionate at least every other day, cypionate and enanthate at least once a week but twice a week is better, and deconate every week. Since testosterone suspenion has no ester, its active life is very short and it should be injected at least every day, and some do twice a day shots. Testosterone products usually come in concentrations of 50mg/100mg/200mg/250mg per milliliter (ml). Some underground products though have come in concentrations up to 700mg per ml. There are also some products that combine testosterone esters to allow less shots, and a more even blood level. Some of these products are sustanon, durateston, and omnadren. They combine testosterone propionate, phenylpropionate, isocaporate, and deconate for a total concentration of 250mg per ml. These combination products are very popular, but they can also be expensive compared to one ester products unless you have a good source.
Next is nandrolone which is less androgenic than testosterone, but more anabolic. It usually comes as a product with two possible esters. The first ester is phenylpropionate, which has an active life of 4 days, but should be injected every other day. Nandrlone phenylpropionate can come come in concentrations from 25mg per ml to 200mg per ml. The next product, is nandrolone deconate, also known as deca. This is by far the most popular steroid among new users, but not the most effective at all. The deconate ester has a very long life and can be injected once a week. Nandrolone deconate can come in contrations from 50mg per ml to 200mg per ml, although some underground companies have a deca product that can be up to 500mg per ml. There is also a lesser known nandrolone cypionate, but the same recommendations for testosterone cypionate would follow.
Then there is equipoise, known as the chemical name boldenone. The undecylenate ester is the most commonly used with boldenone and is one of the longest used in modern steroids, so that means that the steroid has a very long active life. Equipoise could be injected once a week, or even less, but until recently it was usually injected every other day because it only came in a 25mg and 50mg per ml concetration in oil. Since equipoise is only a vetrinary steroid, there was no reason to make a more concentrated product. Some companies have now made an equipoise product that is 100mg/200mg per ml in response to bodybuilders needs. Some undergound companies have even made products up to 500mg per ml. This has made it possible to only inject equipoise once or twice a week to achieve a good doseage. Some underground companies have noticed that people liked equipoise, but they wanted a shorter acting product, so they started to make a boldenone acetate and boldenone propionate product. Theser products generally come in 100 to 200mg per ml and are very good products.
Then there is winstrol, chemical name stanozolol. This is the famous steroid that ben johnson tested positive for in the 1988 olympics in seoul, south korea. This is a highly anabolic and moderately androgenic steroid. Winstrol is available usually as a vetrinary product in 50mg and 100mg per ml concentrations as a suspension in water, just like testosterone suspension. It is a 17 alpha alkylated product, which means that it will bypass the first pass metabolism in the liver, which would eliminate the steroid without it. This also makes it toxic to the liver and usage of 17 alpha alkylated products should be limited in dosage and length. Winstrol is also made as a human drug in 2mg tabs for a certain kind of edema, but it is rarely used. It is also made in tabs in 5/10/25/50mg dosages by other companies. The best winstrol product is made by the spanish company, Zambon. It is a 50mg per ml suspension in an ampoule and is considered to be the most accurately dosed product available. Stanozolol has close to a 12 hour half life so twice a day oral dosages or every day injections are good. One important fact is that you can drink the injectable winstrol and it will be the exact same as injecting it. The one advantage to injecting stanozolol is due to the site enhancement properties that some have said that it has.
Another popular steroid is dianabol, chemical name methandrostenolone. It is probably the second most popular steroid and was the first made in the USA, by the company CIBA. It is a very strong androgenic and anabolic drug that is known for very big gains in a short time. It is known to cause massive water retention, due to its aromatizing to estrogen. It usually comes in 5mg tabs, although it can come in 10mg/25mg/50mg tabs. It has a very short half life of 4 hours, so dosing is usually at least three times a day. It can come as an injectable in oil or propylene glycol at 25mg-50mg per ml, although this isnt a very popular product. It is 17 alpha alkylated so oral dosing is possible, and you can drink the injectable product or inject it every day. This also means that it is liver toxic though.
One more popular steroid is oxandrolone, known as anavar or oxandrin. Oxandrolone is a highly anabolic low androgenic oral steroid that is 17 alpha alkylated. It comes in tabs from 2.5mg up to 50mg. The brand name, anavar, was used by the drug company searle, but they stopped making this product more than ten years ago and the only US manufacturer of oxandrolone is BTG under the name oxandrin. The chemical itself is one of the more expensive steroids, so the tabs are also much more expensive than the cheaper chemicals like methandrostenolone or stanozolol. The gains from oxandrolone arent big, as it can not aromatize to estrogen, but they are of high quality. Oxandrolone tabs are available from many vetrinary and overseas companies, but you have to sure of your source. The cost of oxandrolone is so great, that some companies will switch the tabs to a cheaper tab, such as dianabol, and you will never know since you will still gain some muscle. There really isnt any way around this other than a gas chromatograph test, or to be sure of your source. It is available as an injectable product from some underground companies, and you can drink the injectable or inject it every day. Oxandrolone has a half life of around twleve hours so twice a day dosing is good.
Another popular steroid is anadrol, chemical name oxymetholone. Oxymetholone is probably the most powerful steroid available commonly and the gains from it are very big. it is a highly androgenic and highly anabolic steroid. It will cause a lot of water retention so you must deal with it, or take other precautions to deal with that. It is an oral 17 alpha alkylated steroid that almost always comes in 50mg tabs, although 25mg, 75mg, and 100mg tabs do exist. It is available in the US under the name anadrol 50, from the company unimed, although this is rarely seen on the black market. Many countries make a high quality oxymetholone product and a few are hemogenin from brazil and anapolan from turkey. It is very toxic to the liver and dosage and length of time used should be limited. It is one of the few steroids that can produce a huge increase in the hematocrit level, or the cells that carry oxygen in the body. This can make the user feel very energetic and increase aerobic capacity and have increased vascularity, but this also means that the users blood will be thicker and their blood pressure will be higher. Some users have said that anadrol blunts their appetite, which means that it might be useful as a dieting drug for some. It could be used as an injectable, but very few underground companies make an injectable oxymetholone product. The halflife of oxymetholone is around 12 hours, so twice a day dosing is good.
Another very popular steroid is trenbolone. It is 19 nor testosterone based, and is chemically related to nandrolone. It was first produced by the french company negma, as the injectable parabolan, with the chemical trenbolone hexyhydrobenzylcarbonate. Although there is still some controversey over this, negma stopped producing parabolan in 1992, so dont expect to find any and even if you did, it would be very weak now from being stored so long. Next some underground companies started product finaject, or finabolan, which was trenbolone acetate. This didnt last long and bodybuilders didnt have a way to get trenbolone for a long time. Someone then figured out how to extract the trenbolone acetate, from a legal cow impant used for increased growth. This made it almost legal, and very easy, to get and make trenbolone acetate. Trenbolone is a highly androgenic and highly anabolic drug, but it can not aromatize to estrogen so the gains arent huge from it, but are very hard. Trenbolone acetate usually comes in concentrations from 75mg to ml to 200mg per ml. The acetate ester is one of the shortest known, so it is best to inject every day or every other day. To avoid this, some underground companies have started to produce trenbolone enanthate. This allows users to inject once or twice a week and still get the benefits of trenbolone. The products usually come in oil, although it is possible to use trenbolone in water. Some companies also produce a trenbolone suspension product, which is very good, but has to be injected at least daily. Trenbolone will give a very hard and vascular look, which is one of the reasons that it is popular with dieting bodybuilders. It is also one of the few steroids that also has a direct effect on cortisol and fat loss.
Another commonly used steroid is primobolan, chemical name methanolone. It is a highly anabolic and low androgenic drug. It used to be available as an injectable in both acetate and enanthate esters, although only the enanthate ester is produced now from the company schering. Some underground companies have now produced shorter acting esters with methanolone, including acetate. It is available as an oral product as well, usually in 5mg and 25mg tabs, and they are not 17 alpha alkylated so liver toxicity is not an issue. The oral methanolone typically needs a dose of at least 100mg per day to be effective, and this can get expensive, so most people use the injectable. The concentration from the methanolone product by schering, primobolan, comes in 50mg and 100ml per ml ampoules. This steroid will not aromatize to estrogen and will not give big gains, but the gains will be very lean gains. This is one steroid that will not cause very many side effects unless the dosage is very high, and this makes it very popular among people who do not want to use more androgenic drugs. Methanolone is another steroid that is expensive comparitively, so many fakes are made. Some of the fakes are very good and it is very hard to tell them apart from the real product. It is best not to buy primobolan unless you are very sure of your source.
It is good to also not that with the longer acting products more of the concentration is the weight of the ester, so you are getting less steroid per ml then with a shorter acting product. This can be seen by comparing the ester weights of testosterone propionate and testosterone enanthate and the no ester product testosterone suspension.
With a 200mg shot of each, test suspension will give 200mg of test, test prop will give around 175mg of test and test enanthate will give around 150mg. This means that after you account for the ester, which does nothing in the body, you are getting less steroid with the longer acting products. You dont have to inject as often with the longer acting products though, so it is a trade off of what you want. The ester weight difference generally will not make a huge difference until you are around the 750mg-1000mg a week dosage. This is true for all injectable steroids as well.
There are many other steroids that are available and I will add them in if someone wants, but since they arent that popular, I will leave it at just these for now. If someone wants to add something, please feel free to. Thanks
First off we have testosterone, which can be with no ester, called testosterone suspension or testosterone no ester. It can come in either water (suspension) or in oil (no ester). It is called a suspension because the testosterone powder will not disolve in the water, it is only suspended in it. This means that you will have to shake up testosterone suspension before using it, to make sure that you get the correct concentration. Testosterone can also be with an ester, which is used to increase the active life of the drug and increase its lipid solubility. The longer the ester, the longer the active life and better the lipid (oil) solubility. Some common esters used with testosterone are propionate (3 day life), cypionate (5-6 day life), enanthate (6 day life), and deconate (10 day life). It is best to inject testosterone propionate at least every other day, cypionate and enanthate at least once a week but twice a week is better, and deconate every week. Since testosterone suspenion has no ester, its active life is very short and it should be injected at least every day, and some do twice a day shots. Testosterone products usually come in concentrations of 50mg/100mg/200mg/250mg per milliliter (ml). Some underground products though have come in concentrations up to 700mg per ml. There are also some products that combine testosterone esters to allow less shots, and a more even blood level. Some of these products are sustanon, durateston, and omnadren. They combine testosterone propionate, phenylpropionate, isocaporate, and deconate for a total concentration of 250mg per ml. These combination products are very popular, but they can also be expensive compared to one ester products unless you have a good source.
Next is nandrolone which is less androgenic than testosterone, but more anabolic. It usually comes as a product with two possible esters. The first ester is phenylpropionate, which has an active life of 4 days, but should be injected every other day. Nandrlone phenylpropionate can come come in concentrations from 25mg per ml to 200mg per ml. The next product, is nandrolone deconate, also known as deca. This is by far the most popular steroid among new users, but not the most effective at all. The deconate ester has a very long life and can be injected once a week. Nandrolone deconate can come in contrations from 50mg per ml to 200mg per ml, although some underground companies have a deca product that can be up to 500mg per ml. There is also a lesser known nandrolone cypionate, but the same recommendations for testosterone cypionate would follow.
Then there is equipoise, known as the chemical name boldenone. The undecylenate ester is the most commonly used with boldenone and is one of the longest used in modern steroids, so that means that the steroid has a very long active life. Equipoise could be injected once a week, or even less, but until recently it was usually injected every other day because it only came in a 25mg and 50mg per ml concetration in oil. Since equipoise is only a vetrinary steroid, there was no reason to make a more concentrated product. Some companies have now made an equipoise product that is 100mg/200mg per ml in response to bodybuilders needs. Some undergound companies have even made products up to 500mg per ml. This has made it possible to only inject equipoise once or twice a week to achieve a good doseage. Some underground companies have noticed that people liked equipoise, but they wanted a shorter acting product, so they started to make a boldenone acetate and boldenone propionate product. Theser products generally come in 100 to 200mg per ml and are very good products.
Then there is winstrol, chemical name stanozolol. This is the famous steroid that ben johnson tested positive for in the 1988 olympics in seoul, south korea. This is a highly anabolic and moderately androgenic steroid. Winstrol is available usually as a vetrinary product in 50mg and 100mg per ml concentrations as a suspension in water, just like testosterone suspension. It is a 17 alpha alkylated product, which means that it will bypass the first pass metabolism in the liver, which would eliminate the steroid without it. This also makes it toxic to the liver and usage of 17 alpha alkylated products should be limited in dosage and length. Winstrol is also made as a human drug in 2mg tabs for a certain kind of edema, but it is rarely used. It is also made in tabs in 5/10/25/50mg dosages by other companies. The best winstrol product is made by the spanish company, Zambon. It is a 50mg per ml suspension in an ampoule and is considered to be the most accurately dosed product available. Stanozolol has close to a 12 hour half life so twice a day oral dosages or every day injections are good. One important fact is that you can drink the injectable winstrol and it will be the exact same as injecting it. The one advantage to injecting stanozolol is due to the site enhancement properties that some have said that it has.
Another popular steroid is dianabol, chemical name methandrostenolone. It is probably the second most popular steroid and was the first made in the USA, by the company CIBA. It is a very strong androgenic and anabolic drug that is known for very big gains in a short time. It is known to cause massive water retention, due to its aromatizing to estrogen. It usually comes in 5mg tabs, although it can come in 10mg/25mg/50mg tabs. It has a very short half life of 4 hours, so dosing is usually at least three times a day. It can come as an injectable in oil or propylene glycol at 25mg-50mg per ml, although this isnt a very popular product. It is 17 alpha alkylated so oral dosing is possible, and you can drink the injectable product or inject it every day. This also means that it is liver toxic though.
One more popular steroid is oxandrolone, known as anavar or oxandrin. Oxandrolone is a highly anabolic low androgenic oral steroid that is 17 alpha alkylated. It comes in tabs from 2.5mg up to 50mg. The brand name, anavar, was used by the drug company searle, but they stopped making this product more than ten years ago and the only US manufacturer of oxandrolone is BTG under the name oxandrin. The chemical itself is one of the more expensive steroids, so the tabs are also much more expensive than the cheaper chemicals like methandrostenolone or stanozolol. The gains from oxandrolone arent big, as it can not aromatize to estrogen, but they are of high quality. Oxandrolone tabs are available from many vetrinary and overseas companies, but you have to sure of your source. The cost of oxandrolone is so great, that some companies will switch the tabs to a cheaper tab, such as dianabol, and you will never know since you will still gain some muscle. There really isnt any way around this other than a gas chromatograph test, or to be sure of your source. It is available as an injectable product from some underground companies, and you can drink the injectable or inject it every day. Oxandrolone has a half life of around twleve hours so twice a day dosing is good.
Another popular steroid is anadrol, chemical name oxymetholone. Oxymetholone is probably the most powerful steroid available commonly and the gains from it are very big. it is a highly androgenic and highly anabolic steroid. It will cause a lot of water retention so you must deal with it, or take other precautions to deal with that. It is an oral 17 alpha alkylated steroid that almost always comes in 50mg tabs, although 25mg, 75mg, and 100mg tabs do exist. It is available in the US under the name anadrol 50, from the company unimed, although this is rarely seen on the black market. Many countries make a high quality oxymetholone product and a few are hemogenin from brazil and anapolan from turkey. It is very toxic to the liver and dosage and length of time used should be limited. It is one of the few steroids that can produce a huge increase in the hematocrit level, or the cells that carry oxygen in the body. This can make the user feel very energetic and increase aerobic capacity and have increased vascularity, but this also means that the users blood will be thicker and their blood pressure will be higher. Some users have said that anadrol blunts their appetite, which means that it might be useful as a dieting drug for some. It could be used as an injectable, but very few underground companies make an injectable oxymetholone product. The halflife of oxymetholone is around 12 hours, so twice a day dosing is good.
Another very popular steroid is trenbolone. It is 19 nor testosterone based, and is chemically related to nandrolone. It was first produced by the french company negma, as the injectable parabolan, with the chemical trenbolone hexyhydrobenzylcarbonate. Although there is still some controversey over this, negma stopped producing parabolan in 1992, so dont expect to find any and even if you did, it would be very weak now from being stored so long. Next some underground companies started product finaject, or finabolan, which was trenbolone acetate. This didnt last long and bodybuilders didnt have a way to get trenbolone for a long time. Someone then figured out how to extract the trenbolone acetate, from a legal cow impant used for increased growth. This made it almost legal, and very easy, to get and make trenbolone acetate. Trenbolone is a highly androgenic and highly anabolic drug, but it can not aromatize to estrogen so the gains arent huge from it, but are very hard. Trenbolone acetate usually comes in concentrations from 75mg to ml to 200mg per ml. The acetate ester is one of the shortest known, so it is best to inject every day or every other day. To avoid this, some underground companies have started to produce trenbolone enanthate. This allows users to inject once or twice a week and still get the benefits of trenbolone. The products usually come in oil, although it is possible to use trenbolone in water. Some companies also produce a trenbolone suspension product, which is very good, but has to be injected at least daily. Trenbolone will give a very hard and vascular look, which is one of the reasons that it is popular with dieting bodybuilders. It is also one of the few steroids that also has a direct effect on cortisol and fat loss.
Another commonly used steroid is primobolan, chemical name methanolone. It is a highly anabolic and low androgenic drug. It used to be available as an injectable in both acetate and enanthate esters, although only the enanthate ester is produced now from the company schering. Some underground companies have now produced shorter acting esters with methanolone, including acetate. It is available as an oral product as well, usually in 5mg and 25mg tabs, and they are not 17 alpha alkylated so liver toxicity is not an issue. The oral methanolone typically needs a dose of at least 100mg per day to be effective, and this can get expensive, so most people use the injectable. The concentration from the methanolone product by schering, primobolan, comes in 50mg and 100ml per ml ampoules. This steroid will not aromatize to estrogen and will not give big gains, but the gains will be very lean gains. This is one steroid that will not cause very many side effects unless the dosage is very high, and this makes it very popular among people who do not want to use more androgenic drugs. Methanolone is another steroid that is expensive comparitively, so many fakes are made. Some of the fakes are very good and it is very hard to tell them apart from the real product. It is best not to buy primobolan unless you are very sure of your source.
It is good to also not that with the longer acting products more of the concentration is the weight of the ester, so you are getting less steroid per ml then with a shorter acting product. This can be seen by comparing the ester weights of testosterone propionate and testosterone enanthate and the no ester product testosterone suspension.
With a 200mg shot of each, test suspension will give 200mg of test, test prop will give around 175mg of test and test enanthate will give around 150mg. This means that after you account for the ester, which does nothing in the body, you are getting less steroid with the longer acting products. You dont have to inject as often with the longer acting products though, so it is a trade off of what you want. The ester weight difference generally will not make a huge difference until you are around the 750mg-1000mg a week dosage. This is true for all injectable steroids as well.
There are many other steroids that are available and I will add them in if someone wants, but since they arent that popular, I will leave it at just these for now. If someone wants to add something, please feel free to. Thanks