The PCT SERM dosing in this forum is wrong

What if we use armidex instead of anastrozole if we don’t have access to ?
Armidex during cycle and for the pct

@KSman Would Aromasin be effective at keeping E2 in check in the testes, contrary to anastrozole?

Arimidex is anastrazole and vice versa. One is generic and one is name brand, so use either one as they’re the same thing.

KSman wrote:
"I don’t like aromasin simply because it does not work well. You need to take around 25 times more mg’s of aromasin to do what 1mg of anastrozole does. I have my doubts that aromasin would work well from high T–>E2 induced in the testes by SERM dosing that is too high. Aromasin is a suicide inhibitor. If that is so great, why do you need to take so much?

I do not have data that bears on whether aromasin fares better inside the testes. But if SERMs are dosed correctly, we don’t need to care about that."

See above.

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Bumping this up sharing my own protocol - I’m a pharmacist, and I share OP’s opinions 100% after putting in my Extra homework in before dealing with female cancer patients’ drugs. I’ve been blasting and cruising from July 2016 to April 2018.

PCT went like this:

  • April: Nolva 20mg MWF. Asin 12.5mg e14d
  • May: Nolva 10mg MWF. Asin 6.25 e14d
  • June: Nolva 10mg biweekly for 2 weeks then 5mg biweekly. I may have popped one Asin 6.25mg that month.
  • Cialis 10mg 1x/2x per week on demand. Cialis has studies showing an improvement of the T/e2 ratio. Also keeps the missus happy yakno

July bloods: LH&FSH both 4. Total T 420 ng/dL. Free T 12 pg/mL and e2 19 pg/mL. This is compared to 2016 “last natural bloodwork” showing total T 750 ng/dL, free T 8 pg/mL e2 10 pg/mL, LH&FSH both 6.

Feeling absolutely normal, obviously, back to my old self.

FYI I’m now trying to see if I can bump T up a notch (600 is optimal to me), and I’ve just started Clomid 25mg MWF now, with proviron 12.5mg ED for 4 weeks before getting bloods done - I’m VERY curious about the use of low dose Proviron during a “restart”. Will then taper off Clomid.

The debate on asin rather than Adex is probably going to be endless, as of myself I went with the potentially more androgenic activity of Asin, plus its chemical structure is interesting to me.

http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/6/11/2817

FYI Asin C20H24O2

And Proviron C20H32O2 - in the grand scheme of chemistry things vastly different, but actually quite damn close.