ran Winstrol for about 3 months (12 weeks) at a dose of 100mgs Every Other Day (along with Test prop at 125mgs, every other day) and I suffered no ill-effects. My joints felt fine, and I can say that the only thing which was undesirable about that cycle was the injection pain. Generally, people report a "dry" and less lubricated feeling in their joints when on this drug (fluid retention is nil with Stanozolol), and also a "dry" overall look as regards contest prep. This could be due to a sort of "reverse-osmotic" effect...of course this is speculation, but people do look "dryer" on Winnie, and some even look dryer in the site they inject (more on this later). There are many conflicting reports on tendon strength and Stanozolol, even in medical journals.        More.......

The injection form of stanozolol is a water based injectable steroid that is a derivative of DHT. Both oral and injectable forms are c17-alfa-alkylated chemicals. This of course makes the injectable form moderately liver toxic and the oral form liver toxic in high dosages. Before going on let me make it clear that the injectable form is the same as the oral. For this reason the injectable form has frequently been used as an oral also. Why would anyone have done that? Well, all c17-alfa-alkylated AAS, when passing through the liver for deactivation, cause a distinct elevation in IGF-1 production. (*Please see IGF-1). This is why 30-mg of Dianabol orals daily (210-mg weekly total) has been revered as more effective for mass and strength gains than 400-mg of testosterone enanthate. The injectable stanozolol has been much cheaper than oral stanozolol, so some athletes opted to utilize it as an oral.       More.......

One obvious difference between Winstrol Depot and other injectables is that it is not esterified, being sold as aqueous stanozolol suspension. (It should not be called water-soluble: virtually none of it is dissolved in the water.) This means that it does not have a classical half-life, where at time x the level is ½ the starting level, at time 2 x the level is ¼, at time 3 x the level is 1/8, etc. Instead, the microcrystals slowly dissolve, and when they have all dissolved levels of the drug then fall very rapidly.       More......

Stanozolol is also one of the few compounds that women can take safely, as it´s anabolic:androgenic ratio is quite skewed towards anabolism. It´s generally accepted that women can tolerate around 5-10mgs a day of this compound. Men, on the other hand can dose themselves in the .5-1.5mg/kg range. I find 100mgs injected every other Day to be sufficient, but of course, even with the injectable form, every day dosing is optimal. I tend to favor DHT based compounds, and have enjoyed great success with a Winstrol/Masteron/Testosterone cycle, but I suspect that replacing the Masteron in that cycle with Trenbolone would prove more beneficial for most bodybuilders seeking to get ripped.       More......