Is it worth the extra money for Winstrol(Tab vs. Inj.)

[dece870717]

I'm looking at how much 42ml of 50mg/ml of Injectable Winstrol would cost me compared to 50 tabs of 50mg/tab of Oral Winstrol would cost me. And man the orals are so much cheaper. Is it worth the extra money getting the injectables over the orals?

[beefjr22]

In my experience i have had better gains from the injectable, also the orals are harsher on the liver.....but its strange b/c i actually get the injectable cheaper than the orals so i guess its kinda flipped for me....pm me

[dece870717]

I would PM but it won't allow me to, you have an AIM screename?

[GauchB]

If you have the choice (if money is not a prob or you are scared of needles)always go with Inj.

It's just better in terms of gains and safety which is above all else key!

[newbrew]

Winstrol is a 17aa whether its oral or injectable, so its going to be harsh either way. This is why you can drink an injectable version of Winstrol. I'd prefer to take Winstrol orally as I find it hurts more than prop (by far) when injected.

I dont know the physiology behind it, but I do believe taking it orally is still more toxic due to making an extra pass through the liver.

When I think Winstrol, I think oral. I'd prefer to use another compound if I were going to include another injectable.

[Carlos_E]

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[shrpskn]

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[Carlos_E]

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[shrpskn]

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Anthony Roberts- New Article (Winstrol, Oral Vs/ Injectable)

[Jason865]

Winny is a horrible drug ans I would never use it. Read up on the sides of all the drugs you are considering.

[Jefferey]

Winny is a horrible drug ans I would never use it. Read up on the sides of all the drugs you are considering.

I'm not a winny fan either.

[odix]

the oral version has advantages the injectable does not though...i personally love winstrol @ the end of a cycle for cutting. tren /winstrol does wonders.

[shark333]

wo....thats ripped.

[zipster_dude]

I injected winny at the end of my last cycle and found that it hurt pretty bad as well. I will surely go back to drinking the injectable for my next cutting cycle.

[GHO5T]

I'm looking at how much 42ml of 50mg/ml of Injectable Winstrol would cost me compared to 50 tabs of 50mg/tab of Oral Winstrol would cost me. And man the orals are so much cheaper. Is it worth the extra money getting the injectables over the orals?

IMO i believe there is a slight difference between the two, but nothing extreme,.

Since you can get the oral version of the compound at a much cheaper price, i would go with that.

[guest589745]

Anthony Roberts- New Article (Winstrol, Oral Vs/ Injectable)

Ill post it for those who arent going to take the time to follow the link and learn something.


Winstrol - Oral Versus Injectable(More different than you think!)By- Anthony Roberts
(Originally found on MesoRx)
I tend to shy away from straight “information” articles- in other words, I’ve never written the “How Androgens Work” article, because I’ve read it several times by several authors, and I really have nothing to add. Gene Transcription and Androgen Receptor Action has been written about over, and over, ad nauseum. All of the articles I’ve read on the topic are well written and well- they’re all the same. Don’t get me wrong, all of the articles which discuss the topic are very informative, but when you’re done reading them, you don’t really have anything you can “use” in your next cycle.

And I’m sure you know the difference between orals and injectables, but do yourself a favor and read this article, because I’m going to explain some things in here that you can use in your next cycle. Actually, I’m going to explain how you can use Winstrol (Stanozolol ) as either an oral or injectable, and get a very different set of effects from the same drug- depending on which route of administration you choose to utilize.

First, lets go over the basics of Winstrol, so we’re all on the same page here.

Winstrol is a steroid derived from the base structure of Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT is just testosterone which has been 5alpha-reduced, meaning it has had the c4-5 double bond removed by two hydrogen atoms. This is very interesting from a chemical/biological standpoint. Once this bond is removed, testosterone has become DHT, and DHT is the body’s most potent androgen. DHT has a slew of beneficial effects which are more pronounced than the hormone it’s created out of. DHT is able to increase androgen receptor proliferation for almost 24 full hours (1) DHT also has profound effects on the Central Nervous System (CNS), and this is why we often see profoundly increased aggression with athletes who are using DHT derivatives such as Masteron (which has a deceivingly low anabolic and androgenic rating). As an added benefit, DHT can not aromatize (convert via the aromatase enzyme) into estrogen. It’s also noteworthy that the injectable version of Winstrol is actually the same exact thing as the oral- it’s just micronized Stanozolol powder suspended in water (or sometimes oil).

So what we have in Winstrol is DHT with two modifications- an added c17 methylation, and a very weird “pyrazol” group. The c17 methylation has been added in order to allow Winstrol to survive oral ingestion and the subsequent first pass through the liver. The pyrazol group is a bit weirder- what this means to you and I is that it has another whole “ring” attached to the four ring Steran Nucleus of DHT. Take a look over at the lower left portion of the two molecules below, and you’ll notice that Winstrol has an added cyclopentane (5 sided) group (the pyrazol group):



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When we really take a look at Winstrol, the anabolic rating of this product is very high (320% that of testosterone) as compared to its androgenic actions (30% of testosterone). Despite this, Winstrol is really a disappointing drug for size gains. What we typically see with this stuff is some pretty decent strength gains and some nice fat loss if the user isn’t too sloppy with their diet. Not many people report huge weight gains off of Stanozolol. Although many drugs which bind tightly to the androgen receptor are suspected to exhibit their at least some of their lipolytic (fat-burning) effects through receptor binding affinity. The effects of androgens on the regulation of lipolysis in adipose precursor cells.(2), Winstrol remains a potent cutting drug, despite the fact that it has a relatively weak AR binding ability (3). What this tells me is that there’s some stuff going on with regards to Winstrol’s mechanism of action, which doesn’t involve androgen receptor mediated effects. Still, Winstrol is a very potent compound for enhancing protein synthesis (4-5 ) .

As previously discussed, it’s derived from DHT, and DHT is known to have ant-estrogenic effects (6) and Winstrol itself also has anti-progestenic properties (in at least some cases, where it may "block" that receptor) (7). So I think it’s safe to say that some of the “hard” look you can get in your physique from Winstrol is because of it’s ability to inhibit estrogen and progesterone- known culprits in making a physique appear smooth. Unfortunately, since it is 17aa, it is also liver toxic, especially more so when you inject it and it is subject to what is known as the “first pass” through the liver. The difference between taking oral vs. injectable Winstrol, even though it’s technically the same drug, is how and when your body metabolizes it. When you consume a drug orally, that drug is absorbed from the Gastrointestinal tract, where it then passes via the portal vein into the liver -where some drugs are metabolised. This “first pass” can mean that only a certain portion of the drug reaches your body’s bloodstream. As previously discussed, a 17aa has been attached to Winstrol to allow a sizeable portion to survive this metabolism.

First pass metabolism can occur in both the gut and the liver, and where this happens can vary with different drugs. First pass metabolism actually occurs in your gut for some drugs and in the liver for others. Once it has been metabolized, it enters the bloodstream. It’s important to note that when a blood is metabolized in the Gastrointestinal tract, the blood leaving the Gastrointestinal tract does not go right to the heart, but actually still passes through liver via the hepatic portal vein and then ultimately returns to circulation via the hepatic vein. The liver is your body’s filtration unit, and removes large quantities of nutrients, dangerous toxins (or fun toxins, depending on what they are) and other substances from the blood.

So as you can see, when you take an oral steroid such as Winstrol, undergoes a first-pass metabolism in the both the intestines as well as liver. Some drugs can be absorbed more or less totally intact, after only moderate metabolic activity, while some are absorbed only after very extensive metabolic activity. Once it is through this first pass, a given drug then circulates in the blood until it is acquired by another tissue, such as skeletal muscle. Now, if the drug reaches the liver again, it may undergo what is cleverly known as “second-pass” metabolism. Of course, in the case of Winstrol, an injectable version is available, and when we compare the oral and injectable versions of Winstrol and their effects in your body, I think there’s some surprising differences. The injectable is (naturally) put right into your bloodstream and only undergoes the far less extensive second pass metabolism, while the oral must endure the gut and liver on it’s first pass before ending up in circulation.

Now, here’s the interesting part: When you inject Winstrol, instead of taking it orally, you actually get more nitrogen retention (4) (and hence we can infer, more new muscle tissue is being built). SO if you are trying to use Winstrol to build new muscle tissue, the injectable version is going to be far superior to the Oral version. However, there are some advantages that the oral version has over the injectable, including a possible “synergy” with other drugs- but only (primarily) when taken orally.

While in the liver, on it’s first pass, Winstrol is exposed to a variety of enzymes and proteins. To understand how a possible synergy between Winstrol and other steroids may be possible, a little background on Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) is first necessary. For our purposes here, all we need to know is that SHBG is a glycoprotein produced in the liver, which binds to testosterone and makes it biologically unavailable to do all the things we want it to do- like building muscle. It serves to transport testosterone throughout the body, but while it remains bound to testosterone, the testosterone can not exert it’s anabolic effects.




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As you can surmise, a very large portion of the testosterone in your body is bound to SHBG. Wouldn’t it be great if we could lower SHBG? With Winstrol we can.

A fairly conservative oral dose of .2mg/kg of Winstrol has been shown to lower SHBG by close to 50%. (8)For me (200lbs) this would mean I would only need around 18mgs/day to free up half of my SHBG bound testosterone! For my omnipresent and hypothetical “100kg bodybuilder”- only 20mgs would be needed (he’s 220 lbs for the metrically impaired among us). Now, with less SHBG floating around in me, my anabolic steroid cycle will be more effective, right? Right.

But why can we only expect such a dramatic lowering of SHBG with the oral? Well, obviously, we’re taking advantage of the first pass through the liver, where we can have our Winstrol interact with SHBG where it’s produced- in the liver…without going through the bloodstream first.

When we take a look at a study done comparing injectable vs. oral contraceptives, we find that the oral version at 70mgs/week (10mgs/day given orally) is more effective at affecting SHBG levels than 400mgs/week given via an injection! (9)In this study, testosterone undecanoate was given at a constant dose along with norestisterone (which raises SHBG). What we see is that when norestisterone is given orally, it produces a far greater effect on SHBG, than when it is administered via an injection. And this is even when the doses of the injectable are 4x higher!

Here’s a chart, illustrating exactly what I’m talking about in this study, which I think suggests very strongly that injectable versions of drugs, when compared with the oral version, will have nowhere near as much of an effect on SHBG:

(Chart on MesoRx)


Group I (Black Circles): Injections of 200 mg NETE at study wk 0, 6, 12, and 18 plus injections of 1000 mg TU at study wk 2, 6, 12, and 18 (T free window). Group II (White Diamonds): Injections of 1000 mg TU together with 400 mg NETE at study wk 0, 6, 12, and 18. Group III (Grey Squares): Injections of 1000 mg TU at study wk 0, 6, 12, and 18 combined with daily oral 10 mg norethisterone acetate (NETE) from week 0 to 24 (9)

Of course, in this study, they’re looking at oral vs. injectable versions of a SHBG raising drug- but what we can take away from it is that SHBG interaction with oral compounds is far more pronounced than it is with injectables.

So lets take a small amount of Winstrol with our cycles, and free up some of those steroids we’re taking, right? Right!

Unless of course, we’re talking about women here…I was recently asked why I recommend that women use the injectable version of Winstrol over the oral. I was asked this question by someone, who I assumed had a female friend who was considering using Winstrol. I then realized I was totally incorrect- not about Winstrol, but about the reason behind the question. You see…I saw a picture of the man who had first asked me the question, and it’s readily apparent to me that he probably doesn’t actually know any women. But still, his question is valid and bears repeating and answering here.

I recommend that women avoid the oral version of this product for the same reason that men will find that it gives them an increased synergy and effectiveness in their cycles.

When SHBG is lowered in women, there is more free testosterone floating around. And as we’ve seen, the oral is going to affect SHBG exponentially more than the injectable will. When we lower SHBG too much in women, we see a strong positive correlation with hyperandrogenism (10 ), and hirsuitism (abnormal growth of body hair), as well In fact, non-SHBG-bound testosterone may actually be the defining characteristic for identifying hyperandrogenism in women. In addition, low SHBG contributes to menstrual irregularity.(11)

Finally, and (partially) anecdotally, we also see a greater incidence of clitoral enlargement and acne when the oral version of Winstrol is used by women instead of the injectable. The reasons for this are obvious- When we increase free testosterone by lowering SHBG, we increase the amount of testosterone which is able to be 5a-reduced to DHT. DHT is the primary culprit for steroid induced acne, and is also the hormone responsible for external genital enlargement. Clearly, this is why we see the increased level of clitoral hypertrophy as well as acne when oral Winstrol is used by women.

We can also see increased acne when men use Winstrol orally, but these effects are relatively minor when a 2mg/kg dose is being used to increase the effectiveness of other steroids in a cycle. This isn’t carte blanche to go using Winstrol for an extended period of time under the excuse that it’s increasing the overall effectiveness of the cycle. Stanozolol has some of the worst liver toxicity (hepatoxicity) of any oral steroid on a mg for mg basis. In addition, it’s deleterious effects on your lipid profile (Cholesterol) are also very pronounced, even at low doses- 6mgs/day of Stanozolol can lower HDL (good cholesterol)by 33% and raise LDL (bad cholesterol) by 29% (12 ).

So, hopefully, you’ve reached the end of this article and realized that Winstrol can be used in any cycle to increase the effectiveness of it, but that it must be used sparingly due to it’s possible hepatoxicity and lipid profile effecting properties. Still, when used in heavy testosterone-based profiles, at a dose that will cut your SHBG levels in half, it can increase you other steroids effectiveness quite a bit…but when maximal protein synthesis is wanted, you need to inject it.

There you go…the differences between oral and injectable Winstrol, and how you can use either form to maximize your gains! And yes, Lyle, you can drink Winny.

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[shark333]

kicken post . information..roll

[Selene]

Very good article thank you for posting.


cost wise the injectable is less expensive for comparable dose to oral

[guest589745]

cost wise the injectable is less expensive for comparable dose to oral

How ?

You haev to make the injectable using other items and syringes cost more so I think you are mistaken.

[Selene]

cost of 50mg inject dose would be approx $5

cost of 50mg tab dose would be approx $10

even with very low cost of syringe and needle it is still less to use inject then oral

[guest589745]

cost of 50mg inject dose would be approx $5

cost of 50mg tab dose would be approx $10

even with very low cost of syringe and needle it is still less to use inject then oral

where are you geting these numbers from ? There is no way injectable is less expensive than oral.

[zipster_dude]

How ?

You haev to make the injectable using other items and syringes cost more so I think you are mistaken.

I don't understand? Why would you have to make the injectable with other items?

[Selene]

where are you geting these numbers from ? There is no way injectable is less expensive than oral.

I apologize very late in the night and my math is all mucked up, yes you are correct the tabs would be only an additional cost of .42 per 50mg

so it would come about to be even in cost for each.

thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am sorry for the horrible math skills

[guest589745]

I don't understand? Why would you have to make the injectable with other items?

I was comparing in terms of making both of them from raw powder.

[zipster_dude]

Got it!

[guest589745]

Check out www.anthony-roberts.com for more info you guys, great site.

[BajanBastard]

Reading that winny article really helped me in choosing how to run my winny in my up coming cycle.

[guest589745]

Reading that winny article really helped me in choosing how to run my winny in my up coming cycle.

yup, Im gonna add it at the end if all goes well. Orally.

[vitor]

Unless I was using Winny as an anabolic , I woudnt use it. Proviron would lower SHBG yust fine, with better anti-e effect aswell.

[Phil ORourke]

tanks that was very interesting

[pavlenko]

There is no price talk on the form.

Gsxxr

[cfiler]

You can drink the injectable version. It's a 17aa compound. Either way, it's oral.

Personally, I'd buy which ever was cheaper, then take it orally.

[dece870717]

I read the article but I still have a question. If your lets say trying to do a cutting cycle with winstrol and your having injectable Test Prop and Masterone with it. Which version of winstrol(oral or inj.) would best serve the purpose of getting as cut and lean as possible?

[shrpskn]

Yo pavlenko, open price discussion is a no-no

Edit your post please.

-ShrpSkn

[dece870717]

BUMP can anyone please answer my question on post #34.

[beachbum28]

Where the heck are you buying stuff at that price! Not asking for a source. 50 mg tabs are only .50 each


QUOTE=Selene]cost of 50mg inject dose would be approx $5

cost of 50mg tab dose would be approx $10

even with very low cost of syringe and needle it is still less to use inject then oral[/QUOTE]

[Maldorf]

I will always use oral now if I use it again because I dont like messing with doing another injection each day, as I am already doing daily injections with oil based. I wouldnt mix oil based with the water based winny. Even though the injection does seem more powerful, I will go with the oral because of convenience.

[vecchio82]

Winstrol injections are painful. The first few times it hurt like hell, but after about a week, I started looking forward to them. ???

[bigdrew]

Just started some winny injections last week and do not find that them painful. Mine is prescribed and the doc told me that winni shots are painful if the lab does not grind up the powder enough. Essential the same powder is taken to make either the serum or pill. If the powder is not fine enough it is like injecting sand. I have had no problems. Especially being a water serum, it dispenses quickly in the muscle.