First and foremost, I should state that I am a powerlifter and an armwrestler. With those two mixed together, there is a constant battle with screaming elbows and shoulders. I also have osgoodschlatter disease and patellar tendonitis in my knees that I have had for over 15 years. I can't do a slow bodyweight squat without knee pain. All that being said, learning about the wonders of BPC 157 has always been very intriguing for me. I decided to bite the bullet and run a 4 week (ended up being 5) cycle with it. I am extremely skeptical of all these online peptide companies that only do peptides. I will not sourcedrop but I did get it from a reputable source on here. I will highlight all the positives and (few) negatives below.

I mostly started this protocol for my elbows to help them recover faster from intense armwrestling workouts, in addition to healing up my shoulders a bit that were really starting to irritate and affect my bench. I pinned my first shot at 500mcg subq in the stomach fat at night, right after a really hard arm workout that would normally leave my elbows incapacitated for a few days. The very next day, I had noticeable improvements in my shoulders and elbows. Normally my elbow tendons would be in pain for a few days, but I felt barely any soreness. I was sort of in disbelief. I thought this must be placebo, nothing works this good.....until I noticed while going up stairs that my knee pain was almost nonexistent. This wasn't something I was even looking out for and pretty much confirmed it wasn't placebo. It's like my knees improved 50% in one day. One more thing I noticed was a reduction in lower back stiffness. I am horribly inflexible and just the act of putting on my socks and shoes was annoying for my lower back haha. However, this went away almost entirely while on BPC. Unfortunately, this is where most of the fairytale story ends.

With such drastic changes after the first dose, I thought the results would continue at near the same rate. However, I noticed over the next week that the positive effects drastically slowed and my knees and elbows/shoulders only slightly improved. They were still much better than before I started, but i'd say only 10% better than they were on day 2 (the day after my first shot). Over the next 3 weeks, I started experimenting with different dosages (500mg/day vs 1mg/day), injection frequencies (once/day vs twice/day), injection locations (belly vs local to injury) and IM injections as well. To be quite honest, I didn't notice any substantial difference when changing up any of these variables. Local injections didn't seem to work better, once a day vs twice a day didn't seem to make a difference, and I don't think i ran 1mg/day long enough to establish a real distinction from 500mcg. I did notice that while injecting IM, there was no burn with the pin, like I would get from subq. When I say burn, I'm only referring to a small burn during the actual injection. No burn afterwards and there was no PIP either. I will say you should rub the injection site after you pin even if subq. One time I forgot, and a little lump formed in my shoulder that lasted a few days. Rub it out to spread it out.

Moving on to the negatives. I have never been a fan of pinning everyday, hence why all my cycles are long esters lol. I was pinning with a 31g insulin needle, so the injection was a but quicker and obviously less painful. I just don't like doing it everyday or twice a day. Guess I just need to grow up and deal with it. Also after about a week, I started noticing stomach discomfort that set in about 20 mins after a pin, and lasted for about 30-45 mins. It was not nausea or really painful, just discomfort. I have noticed while doing research that this can be a common effect. Other than those two, I had zero negative effects.

Overall, I think BPC 157 is a great peptide and worked better than expected. I was skeptical going in, but the overall experience was very positive. If you can find the real thing (lots of bunk or underdosed stuff out there) than I strongly suggest giving this a try. IMPORTANT NOTE: Your experience might not be the same as mine. Some people swear by local injections or twice/day pins but from my experience it made no difference. Some will also say the drug really starts to work after 4 weeks, yet I noticed most of the healing on day 1. 4 weeks is probably not enough time to get the most out of it, but I just wanted to test the waters. Funny I noticed the most benefit in my knees, which I wasn't the main problem I was trying to address. Perhaps this drug works better for things like tendonitis or other injuries rather than things like regular joint soreness/stiffness/irritation. I will try this again, but next time I will run it for 6 weeks and alongside TB500 to see how well they stack together. TB500 is pretty expensive for the dosage you need to run so this will have to wait.

If you have any questions about my experience or have recommendations, feel free to drop them here or shoot me a DM.