Am I overdoing it with notes? What else is worth tracking?

Ruckus4519 said:

CranberryRocker said:

I love a good spreadsheet. Dates, how much I draw, where I pin, how much I take, who it came from, what it cost, any sides, measurements — all of it goes in. Then again, I'm a real chemist/nerd who does real research, so that just comes with the job. Knowledge is leverage, after all. Switching things up makes no sense when you don't even know what you're switching or why.

This place hits me like cat nip, honestly — it just feeds my obsession. 😎
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One thing I completely overlooked in my records: expenses and how the money moved. Going back to fill that in shouldn't be too hard, but it's going to sting. I had some crypto parked in Solana before it dropped to 79 🙄 Rookie mistake.

Still, I want to log injection site doses, just in case any ISRs show up. I drew out a 2x2 square, and I'm hoping 4 weeks is enough for full healing. Anyway, what are the chances of landing on the EXACT same spot as before right?
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A couple weeks back, I ended up with an unusual bruise on my stomach from an injection. Maybe I ought to give my butt a shot. Hahahaha
 
Ruckus4519 said:

CranberryRocker said:

I love a good spreadsheet. Dates, how much I draw, where I pin, how much I take, who it came from, what it cost, any sides, measurements — all of it goes in. Then again, I'm a real chemist/nerd who does real research, so that just comes with the job. Knowledge is leverage, after all. Switching things up makes no sense when you don't even know what you're switching or why.

This place hits me like cat nip, honestly — it just feeds my obsession. 😎
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One thing I completely overlooked in my records: expenses and how the money moved. Going back to fill that in shouldn't be too hard, but it's going to sting. I had some crypto parked in Solana before it dropped to 79 🙄 Rookie mistake.

Still, I want to log injection site doses, just in case any ISRs show up. I drew out a 2x2 square, and I'm hoping 4 weeks is enough for full healing. Anyway, what are the chances of landing on the EXACT same spot as before right?
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On top of that, when you've got several peps in rotation, it helps to write down where each one was injected. It doesn't need to be fancy — something like "tirz upper right thigh, NAD+ outer r thigh" will do. That way, when a spot shows up looking like a mosquito bite, you'll know which one caused it. 🙃
 
Ruckus4519 said:

Is it too nerdy of me to keep a log of my research lol

I'm thinking about writing down the date I mixed up each vial, the date I first stick a needle into each aliquot to use it, and the date I throw it out along with the reason (used up vs. GROSS NASTY EWWWW vs. dropped and broke). Might also record how many days have passed since it was mixed.

Then for each aliquot, should I jot down when I injected?

I'm not sure what other data to log.

For my schedule, I plan to check weight and measurements on the morning of injection day. Currently that's Saturdays. I still haven't bought a smart scale.

I did get DEXA and bloodwork done, but it only covers CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, and thyroid panel. It didn't occur to me to test iron, vitamins, or anything beyond that.
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You're joking, right? I keep a huge spreadsheet listing each dose along with when I took it. That way I can work out precisely how much juice came out of every empty I've got.
 
Each week, I go through my spreadsheet and log entries for the next 7 days. A green highlight marks days I dosed; yellow means I skipped.

I keep every lab result in one CoPilot thread, so it retains the past data and can chart patterns.





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During week 1 I kept notes, then quit almost immediately — same pattern as when I start logging workouts and then drop it entirely. Continuing would make sense, yet it demands a lot of effort. Take today: somehow blood ended up inside my convipen cartridge while I was injecting. I was able to move over 50% of my tb500 into a different cart, leaving the blood fragments behind, but the whole thing was strange. Had I been writing things down, I could likely work out what caused it.
 
In Excel I log every detail: where each vial came from, what it cost, and its COA, so I can work out the mass in mg and the concentration in mg/ml. For every pep I also record the date/week, the units that give me my dose, its half-life, and a rough estimate of blood concentration. Those get charted alongside my weekly weight and resting HR/BP, which I paste in from separate tracking apps. I also tally cumulative units so I can tell when a new vial or cart is due and how far it will stretch. Blood work dates, whether completed or scheduled, get noted too, though I've never added the actual results.

Roughly 500 days have passed since I started, and by now I've folded away the first few hundred rows. Early on it genuinely paid off, especially during switches and titration.

Were I taking this more seriously, macros would probably be on the list, but since I'm on maintenance that matters less to me now.

And if poop is on your tracking sheet, you've crossed the line!
 
Since I'm just starting out, tracking things to this extent never crossed my mind! Still, there's really useful stuff in this thread, so thanks to everyone who posted!
 
Having spent time as a chemist, I keep a journal where I log quite a lot. That said, this thread made me see there were things I hadn’t been capturing 😆

Here’s what goes into my tracking:

Inventory side: how many vials I bought, when I bought them, who supplied them, COAs, what they cost, and how many vials are left

For what I’m stockpiling or planning to buy: how much I currently have on hand, the amount I want to reach, how much I’ll order next time, and the full/amount still due

When reconstituting: keeping tabs on supplies, working out the reconstitution math, and recording label details

For pinning: the date, the dose in mg, the units, and which peptide

Loose notes: watching prices, watching weight, protocol reminders, and whatever else crosses my mind.

What I’ve just noticed I’m not doing is linking each pin to its lot number and writing down where I injected. Looks like my journal needs some adjusting.
 
Nice to know others are this deep into logging too.

My setup lives in an Excel spreadsheet. For every vial I write down the reconstitution date, the day I break the seal on it, how much goes into each shot, and short remarks about side effects or how it felt. Alongside that I log the vendor, the vial's size, the BAC volume I added, the number of pins I expect to pull from it, and on injection days I add my weight plus a handful of measurements.

Doing it this way makes it much easier to plan (restocking, figuring out when the next recon is due) and to see what genuinely made a difference rather than trusting a gut feeling.
 
marraqy said:

Nice to know others are this deep into logging too.

My setup lives in an Excel spreadsheet. For every vial I write down the reconstitution date, the day I break the seal on it, how much goes into each shot, and short remarks about side effects or how it felt. Alongside that I log the vendor, the vial's size, the BAC volume I added, the number of pins I expect to pull from it, and on injection days I add my weight plus a handful of measurements.

Doing it this way makes it much easier to plan (restocking, figuring out when the next recon is due) and to see what genuinely made a difference rather than trusting a gut feeling.
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That's really useful. I also write down the number of pins I expect to draw from each vial.
 
Ruckus4519 said:

Is it too nerdy of me to keep a log of my research lol

I'm thinking about writing down the date I mixed up each vial, the date I first stick a needle into each aliquot to use it, and the date I throw it out along with the reason (used up vs. GROSS NASTY EWWWW vs. dropped and broke). Might also record how many days have passed since it was mixed.

Then for each aliquot, should I jot down when I injected?

I'm not sure what other data to log.

For my schedule, I plan to check weight and measurements on the morning of injection day. Currently that's Saturdays. I still haven't bought a smart scale.

I did get DEXA and bloodwork done, but it only covers CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, and thyroid panel. It didn't occur to me to test iron, vitamins, or anything beyond that.
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I figured I was alone in this 🙂
 
spyke65 said:

Having spent time as a chemist, I keep a journal where I log quite a lot. That said, this thread made me see there were things I hadn’t been capturing 😆

Here’s what goes into my tracking:

Inventory side: how many vials I bought, when I bought them, who supplied them, COAs, what they cost, and how many vials are left

For what I’m stockpiling or planning to buy: how much I currently have on hand, the amount I want to reach, how much I’ll order next time, and the full/amount still due

When reconstituting: keeping tabs on supplies, working out the reconstitution math, and recording label details

For pinning: the date, the dose in mg, the units, and which peptide

Loose notes: watching prices, watching weight, protocol reminders, and whatever else crosses my mind.

What I’ve just noticed I’m not doing is linking each pin to its lot number and writing down where I injected. Looks like my journal needs some adjusting.
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I really should begin keeping track like that... when I open my freezer, it gives off the impression that I'm selling the stuff. After shifting a few kits, I came across a kit of epithalon I had no memory of buying... silly me! Every item does have a date on it, but I lack a single master inventory list.
 
I haven't moved past the trial-and-error stage yet. Once a kit is finished, I decide whether it earns a spot in my future orders. My honest take is that a large share of these peptides amount to little more than inflated snake oil marketed by influencers.

Given how much cash is flowing into peptides, my hope is that med spas and clinics finally begin sharing what they learn with each other, or even better, with everyone. That way we could make smarter calls while we wait for real human clinical trials. Fingers crossed those gather momentum too.

Compounds where I actually noticed or felt enough to justify buying again: Cag, Reta, BPC_1576 and TB-500, MOTS-c and NAD+.

The strange part with NAD+ is that once my MOTS-C cycle wrapped up, the NAD+ quit delivering that lift a few weeks afterward. So I'm left wondering whether there's a synergy that only works when both are running, or whether I simply built a tolerance to the NAD+ buzz.

On Reta, the bloodwork results make me very happy. Still, once this kit runs out I plan to switch to Tirz so I can drop the Reta-plus-Cagri stack. On top of that, my lipids have fallen so far that my free testosterone is barely inside the normal range. Iron and Vitamin B dropped as well.

Absent human trials, I'd call these questionable: SS-31, Epitalon. To me they're in the vitamin category. You cross your fingers that they pay off down the road. I'd like to believe my Epitalon run added some telomeres. But unless I pay for costly testing or human trials appear, I don't think it's worth banking on results from a rat given the Epithalon version of the drug.

What I consider a scam: Semax and Selank. That said, my route was subQ rather than intranasal.

Tesamorelin and Ipamorelin are two I doubt I'd ever touch again. The only thing they gave me was carpal tunnel in both hands, bad enough to jolt me awake in the middle of the night and keep me up for an hour until sensation returned to my pinky and ring finger. When it first hit, before I'd ever come across that side effect, I briefly thought I'd come down with Parkinsons or something similar.

One more: Glow70+ strikes me as pure hype as well. The BPC-157 and TB-500 amounts in it are too small to do anything. A sting was the only thing I ever noticed.

Crikies, looking back I went through a mountain of junk just to land on a handful I'd repurchase. The cost stacks up fast.
 
Like I've mentioned elsewhere, no hobby has ever been this enjoyable for me. Keeping records, running numbers, and making charts are all part of the fun!
 
Ruckus4519 said:

Is it too nerdy of me to keep a log of my research lol

I'm thinking about writing down the date I mixed up each vial, the date I first stick a needle into each aliquot to use it, and the date I throw it out along with the reason (used up vs. GROSS NASTY EWWWW vs. dropped and broke). Might also record how many days have passed since it was mixed.

Then for each aliquot, should I jot down when I injected?

I'm not sure what other data to log.

For my schedule, I plan to check weight and measurements on the morning of injection day. Currently that's Saturdays. I still haven't bought a smart scale.

I did get DEXA and bloodwork done, but it only covers CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, and thyroid panel. It didn't occur to me to test iron, vitamins, or anything beyond that.
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My desk is covered in notes as well. I've reached the stage where a filing cabinet is necessary!
 
Wow! That hadn't crossed my mind at all. My dose is still on the low side, a bit past 1 month of T&R and nothing else. For now I only log my weight in a scale app. Still, that's a really great idea!!
 
FartfulCodger said:

Like I've mentioned elsewhere, no hobby has ever been this enjoyable for me. Keeping records, running numbers, and making charts are all part of the fun!
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I'd really like to check out some examples of how you've got yours set up!
 
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