This category is for first-hand accounts. It is the only place on the site where "this happened to me" is the point rather than a caveat.
It is also the category where one person's report gets read by somebody about to make a decision, so it is worth writing them well. Here is what turns an account from an anecdote into something useful.
Say what you actually did, in order. What, how much, how often, for how long, and when you stopped. Vague reports cannot be learned from. This is reporting what you did, not instructing anybody else — the difference is rule 2 and it is the difference between "I did X" and "do X".
Say what else changed. This is the one almost everybody leaves out and it is the one that determines whether the account is worth anything. New training block, new job, better sleep, a holiday, another supplement started the same week, the season changing. If three things changed and one of them was a compound, the compound is one candidate out of three.
Say what you expected. Honestly, before the fact. Somebody who expected it to work and thinks it worked has produced weaker evidence than somebody who expected nothing and was surprised, and only you know which you were.
Say how you measured. "Felt better" is real but soft. A number, a time, a weight, a photograph, something a friend noticed without being told — anything external to your own impression is worth ten times your own impression.
Say what would have changed your mind. If nothing would have, say that too. It is useful information about the report.
Do not tidy the timeline. Memory reorganises events into a story with a cause. If you cannot remember whether the improvement started before or after week three, write that you cannot remember. That sentence is more valuable than a confident guess.
Say what you cannot rule out. Placebo. Regression to the mean — you started when things were at their worst, which is when everybody starts, and things at their worst tend to improve regardless. Natural history: a lot of conditions get better on their own on exactly the timescale people run a compound for.
Post the ones that did nothing. Please. Negative accounts are systematically under-reported everywhere and it distorts everything. Nobody writes up the eight weeks where nothing happened, so every category reads as though it worked for everyone who tried it.
What will get removed
Doses framed as a recommendation, a suggestion, or an answer to somebody asking what to take. Report what you did; do not tell anybody else to do it. Any sourcing, vendor, price or packaging detail — rule 3, no exceptions, including in a complaint.
And the honest caveat on the whole category
One person is not a study. Not because your experience is not real — it is — but because a single uncontrolled observation with no comparison and an interested observer cannot separate the compound from everything else that happened that month.
That is not a reason to say nothing. It is a reason to say it precisely. How to Read a Peptide Study Without Being Fooled is about published research, and most of it applies just as well to reading your own.