Decided to cycle back down again, as I’m just going to intially trial this for one week. 

Went for a bike ride this morning, and forgetting, took a half dose of Maximuscle Viper just before (uh, it’s kind of chock full of caffeine). Which was a bad idea. My heart rate went way up and my heart was pounding away.

All this week I’ve been completely avoiding any caffeine and alcohol – both are dehydrating, and when you’re taking clen, you’ll be drinking water constantly. Plus quite a few users have reported bad effects on alcohol, so I wouldn’t recommend drinking booze at all. 

Anyway, next week I want to have a few evenings out, so a 1-week trial seems fine. Then I’ll do a proper 2-week cycle. Some guys slowly increase their doseage to a maximum factor (whether it be 120mg, 160mg, or in some cases, 200mg+), and then when they hit their maximum, they keep it at their max until 2 weeks are up. Some others cycle back down again, to let their bodies adapt. Which seems more sensible to me.

Increase the doseage again, and increased the taurine. Shaky hands and voice, but not too bad again. No headache again.

Side effects definitely dealable with, although not great for holding a lengthy conversation with someone.

Similar effects to yesterday (shaky hands & voice), but less noticeable. No headache at all now.

Felt very, very sleep in the afternoon, which I wasn’t expecting, and a bit light-headed.

Some insomnia.

Decided to increase the dose today. Headache not too bad, but hands very shaky and voice a little shaky as well now. Not feeling particuarly nervous, but could hear my voice wavering a little. Heart rate definitely elevated. Side effects dealable with though.

Clen is supposed to deplete your taurine levels, so had been advised to get hold of some taurine (although recommended amount of taurine to take was between 3g and 5g, which seemed somewhat excessive).

Stuck with 20mg as I didn’t fancy increasing the doseage until my body was a little happier with the sudden influx of new pills. Also woke up a bit earlier today, which is very odd – I’m a lazy bastard at best, so waking up half an hour early is tantamount to a miracle. I didn’t get out of bed early, though.

Headache no way as bad as yesterday, although still there. Some hand shakyness, but not too bad. Had several bananas as well, which seemed to help in the short term with the headache, but headache came back again.

First day on clen. The first 3-4 days are always supposed to be the worst as the body gets used to it. The forums weren’t kidding! Took the dose at 8am, before breakfast, then cycled into work. Had very shaky hands from about 15 minutes after taking the first dose. And a bloody awful headache from 11am, which got worse as the day went on. 

Headache feels a bit like a really bad caffeine headache – the kind you get when you have a really strong coffee on an empty stomach, and you feel like your brain’s about 3 sizes too large for your skull. Unfortunately, the headache didn’t wear off at all, although did finally ease up about 11pm.

Went to the gym as well, which probably didn’t help things, although fairly light session.

Etiquette on the bodybuilding forums appears to be that you should never, ever mention where you bought your supply from. Fortunately, as I’m not posting on a forum, I have no qualms as to mentioning whereabouts I purchased my supply from. After reading as much as I could about clen, I found that the isteroid forums were pretty comprehensive. The clenbuterol forums there were sponsored by a company called eclenbuterol, which I’m not sure is a particularly good way of working out whether they’re a reputable company or not, but they answered questions quickly, and provided a lot of information. The ‘avatar’ which the eclenbuterol reps use is a half-naked woman, which I don’t really think does their company much good, although it is fairly eye catching.

As far as I can work out, the reps are based in America, and they outsource, or front, a pharmacy which is based in Thailand. So the reps answer the questions (very quickly), and the orders get sent through to a Thai pharmacy. The website is ok – you login, register your details, and get sent updates from, I take it, a fictitious American customer service rep. The order arrived pretty quickly, in a discrete envelope, although I was somewhat concerned that the tablets arrived in a plastic envelope, with “CLEN” scrawled in red marker on top, rather than in a sealed plastic container, with a manufacturer’s name.

Ok, next bad point: the payment gateway that they use is called CTOPay (www.ctopay.hk). They take payments for adult services and dodgy pharmacies. I’m guessing that there aren’t, perhaps, that many of these payment gateways. Well, until PayPal starts taking payments for viagra, I guess we’re stuck with the likes of CTOPay. When I tried to pay for my order, the payment gateway had a message that it was down. And it stayed down for a week. What kind of crap credit company has a payment gateway that they don’t get fixed after a couple of hours, let alone a week? Anyway, finally it started working. I was at the point where I really didn’t want to start the process of finding a pharmacy again, so I just stuck with it, but had a bad feeling about it.

The transaction went through ok, and I received a confirmation email. However, sure enough, about a week later, my bank informed me that there had been some strange transactions on my card, and read out to me a string of poker-related transactions, which, fortunately, they’d stopped. I don’t use my credit card much these days, and the only payment I’d made recently had been for clen, so there’s no doubt in my mind that CTOPay cloned my credit card. Fuckers. So if any of you guys do go with them, get one of those one-off credit cards, which you can top-up with a specific amount of cash, so you don’t have to cancel your credit card and get a new one. And never, EVER use your debit/chequing card. You also get far less consumer protection with a debit card. Also, set up a one-off email address (with gmail or yahoo, for example) and don’t give them your telephone number or any other details.

So why clenbuterol? And how come you found this site?

Well, I imagine you’re probably looking for information on clenbuterol, and you’ve been trawling through all the many hundreds of forum pages on the internet, complete with all the thousands of somewhat dodgy online pharmacies, only too keen to take your credit card (and sign you up for strip poker and online gambling along the way).

Why did I start this blog? I came across clenbuterol a couple of years ago, whilst reading an article in The Guardian. A woman had been experimenting with dieting techniques and had stumbled across clenbuterol. She’d lost a lot of weight, but then had put it back on again after her clen regime had finished. The article was a typical doom and gloom piece about ‘don’t do drugs, they’ll screw with your body and your mind’. Myself, I’m not a particularly avid recreational drug user – whether for partying or getting slimmer – but I’m not totally averse, either. I think a good deal of people aged 20 to 30 fall into this category. Of course, there will always be those who completely push the limits of their body, or get hooked, but for the majority of people, it’s something which they partake in from time to time. But, I digress; I’m not going to start outlining the morals of whether you should be taking drugs or not, that’s something for you to decide.

What has come apparent from my research on the internet is that a lot of people have taken clenbuterol, and there is enough research (at least to my mind) to indicate that within certain limits, the side effects and long term effects are negligable to nothing. 

My reasoning, and justification to myself, for taking clen was on several levels. A few months ago, I got  knocked off my bicycle again, causing my recurrent shoulder problem to flare up. Rather than go through another lengthy set of physio sessions, I remembered something the physio had mentioned, about injecting a steroid shot into my shoulder in order to boost the muscle growth. After I checked out steroid shots on the internet, I was pretty sure that that was something I certainly wasn’t going to do. At least without the assistance of the physio. However, I did come across clenbuterol, and it sparked off my recollection about the article I’d read a few years ago. Clen does provide some steroid like benefits, but without the side effects. And, uh, it does get you fairly ripped, when combined with a decent diet.

I’m already happy with my physique – I’m slim – but, hey, I wouldn’t mind losing a few pounds. What I’m really interested in is whether I can lose weight, gain definition and perhaps some muscle bulk, and then keep that definition. And get my shoulder back on track.