HCG Effectivness

**KRutko** · 02-25-2013, 08:26 PM

Just wondering if anyone has advice. I've been on Test Cyp since 1/10/13 with a loading dose of 200 mg, then 140 mg each week after. Dr. also started me on HCG at 320 IU 3 x's a week. I've been using the same vial of HCG since 1/10/13 and it seems, since last week, as if my boys have really reduced in size and are staying up close to my body. I had been using a topical gel without HCG prior to 1/10/13 for about a year.

Thanks in advance for your time and info.

**redz** · 02-25-2013, 08:30 PM

Depends what you reconstituted it with. I think after 30 days it can seriously degrade. Are you keeping it refridgerated?

**KRutko** · 02-25-2013, 08:40 PM

Not sure what they reconstituted it with as I was given the vial from the MD in his office and it had already been reconstituted. I have been keeping it refrigerated. I've noticed that all the info about HCG says to keep it refrigerated, but when I asked my doc about it he said it doesn't need to be.? He also has me on HCG for 8 weeks with a 2 week break. I'm just know finishing my first 8 week course and worried that the boys are now small when going into the 2 weeks off cycle.

**redz** · 02-25-2013, 08:49 PM

Well your doc is wrong it needs to be in the fridge. Also it likely has degraded because of the time that has passed since it was constituted. did he constitute it in front of you? I`m concerned it was left out of a fridge before you got it too.

**KRutko** · 02-25-2013, 08:57 PM

No, his nurse reconstituted it and brought it in for the doc to show me how to inject. Thankfully I've been listening to members like you and keeping it in the fridge. Can your testicles shrink so abruptly, like in a weeks time? And will they come back to life with a fresh vial? Thanks for your input, much appreciated.

**steroid.com 1** · 02-25-2013, 08:57 PM

Your Doc doesn't know what he's doing.

What's the logic behind the break after 8 weeks???

The body thrives on regularity and all this will do is throw off you homeostasis...don't do it.

Like redz pointed out; HCG MUST be refrigerated.

I have no idea what they gave you but know that HCG has about a 90 window of time for potency after that it declines. You're using a vial from last October...think about it...it's almost March!

Find a new Doc...

**KRutko** · 02-25-2013, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by gdevine

Your Doc doesn't know what he's doing.

What's the logic behind the break after 8 weeks???

The body thrives on regularity and all this will do is throw off you homeostasis...don't do it.

Like redz pointed out; HCG MUST be refrigerated.

I have no idea what they gave you but know that HCG has about a 90 window of time for potency after that it declines. You're using a vial from last October...think about it...it's almost March!

Find a new Doc...

By a 90 window do you mean 90 days? Also, the vial was given to me in his office on January 10th of this year 2013, not October...probably the way I posted the date. My bad! 1/10/13 = January 10th 2013.

**austinite** · 02-25-2013, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by KRutko

By a 90 window do you mean 90 days? Also, the vial was given to me in his office on January 10th of this year 2013, not October...probably the way I posted the date. My bad! 1/10/13 = January 10th 2013.

Yes, 90 days. Agree with GD's post above. Take a moment to read this thread so that you can be more informed about hCG when visiting your new doc : http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...w#.USwfhTA4t9U

**KRutko** · 02-25-2013, 09:24 PM

I have read the sticky and am totally on board with the importance of HCG . My vial is less than 60 days old. Just concerned and wondering what may be going on with my testicles shrinking all of a sudden. Thanks for your time, you are all more appreciated than I think you will ever know. Peace