I was just thinking, while I was posting over on the "My Thoughts on HGH" thread.
http://www.anasci.org/vB/peptides-human-growth-factors/41447-my-thoughts-hgh-11.html#post330914
Most people are using a ton of different anabolics, HGH, Peptides, Insulin, etc. These people will say, I added 200mg. of Trenbolone and the results were amazing!.....but how do they know? Was it because two weeks after starting the Tren, they looked in the mirror and were bigger? Leaner? Vascular? But wait, was it the 10 iu's of HGH?, was it the 600mg. of Equipoise? Was it the 8iu's of Insulin? My point is this, how do you know? What was the compound that was responsible?
These things are difficult to determine, especially if you're beginning everything at once. You have to have some sort of previous history and understanding of what you're doing, long with a baseline pattern of what you've BEEN doing.
I tend to start cycles on the more basic end, adding things as I go, then abruptly ending with TRT.
Month 1- Test/Primo
Month 2- Test/Primo/Mast Prop/Tren Ace
Month 3- Test/Primo/Mast Prop/Tren Ace/Anavar
Month 4- Test/Primo/Mast Prop/Tren Ace/Anavar
Month 5- TRT
I would begin by seeing how the test/primo feels. Any water retention? Is my primo real'ish (LOL!). Month 2 would be the accessment of how much the tren is impacting in terms of side effects. I look for increased hardness and strength. If the dose is too high or too low, I adjust based on ability to sleep, mood, etc. Once that baseline has been developed, I finish with anavar.
As time goes on, I tend to increase GH as well. If it's pharma, it'll start at around 3.5iu ED, increasing to 5-6'ish. If it's generic, I'll start at 4-5iu, and wind up around 8-10iu. This dose will be dictated by hand numbness, lethargy, etc.
Certain gear types have certain sides.
EQ- Anxiety, increased vascularity, and my skin gets a bit red (from higher RBC)
Tren- Issues sleeping, grumpiness, acne
Masteron- Very oil skin, water loss/dryness
Winstrol- Joints
Deca- fluid retention
The younger you are, the more difficult it is to tell. The older you are, the easier it is to identify. At the end of the day, you're mostly going on a gut feeling, but you can guess the problem more times than not.