lessthanhalf said:
Before anything else, assuming that hasn't been done yet, get an IGF-1 reading prior to beginning — best taken once the tesa has cleared your system, giving you a baseline. Also confirm glucose, hb1ac, blood pressure and lipids are all within range.
Neither tesa nor hgh will produce any meaningful benefit within 1 month; the timeline is far longer than that.
Familiarise yourself with the side effects so the risks are clear. Age matters here — if you're young, it may be wiser to avoid it altogether since there's plenty of time for risk to build up, and the older you get, the smaller the dose ought to be. Risks exist in the short term, such as carpal tunnel and fluid retention, and in the long term, including acromegaly, cardiac failure and possibly cancers, particularly when doses run high.
Without knowing age, no dose can be recommended.
At 58yo I too began with what I considered a cautious dose of 1.5iu/day, only to discover my igf-1 sat at 50nmol/l against an expected figure of roughly 20, which is about 5 standard deviations above average for age and far too elevated. I'm unsure which units the UK uses; US units differ.
For a 24 iu vial, the simplest dilution is 2.4ml of bac, so every 0.1ml equals 1iu — keeping the numbers simple is always good.
