The headaches continued for weeks and got so bad on a lot of days that it was like having a bad migraine, couldn’t work from home properly and stayed in bed and was taking a lot of painkiller medication constantly. I know sarms are not designed to be these feel good “uppers” I wasn’t expecting it to be like a fun night on recreational substances, but I was hoping for a tiny bit of “feeling confident, strong, keen to train hard” etc - but got none of that, just felt like shit tbh. This uncomfortable and sketchy feeling continued for weeks, and I didn’t enjoy how painful the pumps were in the gym. I decided to walk off the sketchy feelings by taking my dog to the park for an hour and even walking the dog was causing pumps and twitches in my lower back muscles, without even hitting my lifting session. I had read this could happen but I wasn’t expecting to see any side effects until after days or weeks of taking it, but it all happened from the get go. Yes I was well hydrated, I consume 3.5-4L of water daily, and I take a long list of supplements including NAC. I could feel the rad in my system within a couple of hours of taking it, and no exaggeration, the onset of a bad headache was almost instantaneous, as was pain in my mid and lower back - possibly related to my kidneys. (Yes in hindsight it seems stupid that I would use Rad when it is known to increase anxiety, a side effect which I seemed to completely brush over during my Research phase - this is the problem with confirmation biases! You only want to confirm your belief of how good it will be for you, even if others have experienced a negative) Worth noting that due to some experiences with recreational drugs when I was in my 20s, I do not consume any stimulants in my 30s (no pre workouts or caffeine etc) as I am easily prone to anxiety and panic attacks. I have a past history of using recreational drugs for 10 years (don’t do these at all any more) so I am no stranger to high amounts and mixtures of substances circulating in my body and I am very in-tune with my body and feeling the effects of substances circulating. The focus of this post is how badly I was hit with side effects, even after dropping the dosage down. Not here to slate their stuff, defo trust their quality and testing. Probably the UK’s best source of quality sarms. I was using 10mg ED from Receptor Chem here in the UK. My test markers were not super high at 550, but I thought fuck it, I will be fine. I had my bloods done and everything was normal. To give context, I am 33, 4 years of lifting experience, 195lbs. This is an important note, as I think it’s really easy to read a lot of information and to seemingly feel like you know exactly what you are in for, and feel good about it, giddy and excited and you develop a confirmation bias, where you know about the potential side effects - but you want to ignore that and only focus on the gains and how much better it is going to make your training and physique. It did not agree with me at all and I would not use Rad140 again personally. I was fully aware of the fact that a lot of people mention to “dip your toes into the water” with Ostarine before trying other “heavier” sarms, but for some reason, after weeks of reading websites, watching so many hours of YouTube and reading a hell of a lot on here - I somehow came to the conclusion that Rad140 was perfect for me. I decided to use Rad140, despite never having used any other sarms before. I see a lot of guys on here who are curious about their first cycle on sarms, some of you are newbies and trying to gather information to make informed decisions on which sarm to use, or weighing up pros and cons of each. Bit of a long one here guys, but might be helpful for newbies looking into doing Rad, or deciding between rad and another sarm.
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