I would suspect that you have in fact crashed your estrogen. Primo has ai abilities and the addition of a separate ai was likely too much.
You need to pull some blood work, particularly a CBC. Your hematocrit and / or RBC may be elevated due to the additional steroids at play.
Last edited by Cylon357; 07-13-2023 at 11:42 AM.
Why did you take the AI in the first place? Were you having sides? How long is this cycle for? How long have you been on this? And without bloodwork, it's going to be hard to see what is going on. Do you have mast on hand that you can switch to?
Maybe you should just go back to taking your TRT medicine and rethink this whole cycling thing? Your dosages of test and primo are both pretty low for a cycle.
And by the way having your BP in the 150/90 range isn't that bad. The systolic BP is only 150 and that isn't very high. Plus it's the diastolic BP that is really important and yours in in the 90s. running a little high on the BP for a few weeks isn't going to matter much in the grand scheme of things. You're not so high that I'd think you're at a super risk of having a stroke or heart attack in the short term and if your BP goes back to normal at the end of your cycle when you stop taking the gear, you don't really have to worry about long-term damage from it. And you are taking an ace inhibitor already.
If you're really concerned, maybe go see an urgent care and have them up your BP meds?
I do find it hard to believe that you can't get bloods done because you're "away." You can bring your gear and needles with you and you have a place to workout at, but you can't find a place to get blood drawn at?
You really shouldn't touch an AI unless you're currently having estrogenic sides. Even if in the past you're had problems at low doses of test, your body does change over time. Hell just the frequency you pin yourself will affect your SHBG and by breaking your pins up to 3 doses instead of 2 per week might be just what your body needs to regulate the test better and slow the aromatase of the hormones down.
If they're auto inflate cuffs, you should have them calibrated. If it's Omron, it may be as simple as the rate at which the cuff bleeds off the air. Also, make sure the cuff on both machines are the same size. If not, that will skew your reading.
One more thing to watch is make sure you consistently stay above the elbow by at least 1/2". The cuff probably has a diagram. Improper placement will give you inaccurate readings.
Edit: ....make sure you are using the proper size cuff as well.
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Personally, I would keep doing what I have been. No use to change things before blood work, then you have no frame of reference.
It probably won't make much difference, but every time you change something you just blew your frame of reference.
After your blood work is the time to change things.
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Also was looking back on my labs before I started the blast and just on trt my hematocrit was 56.5! The highest it's ever been and really worried me. However a week before it was 51. And recently donated and last blood work a week ago showed 48. How could it be almost 57 and change that much. It was a different lab that did the testing. Same reference range though so no idea what happened.
Have been experiencing more headaches and dizziness and tires which are symptoms of high RBC. But not sure if it's just in my head.
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