I understand the confusion. When I said that one of the bottles was almost completely clear, I meant after shaking/mixing the powder. Progen was using what seems to be using a high proof ethonol water mixture as the carrier liquid for the powdered crystallized avanafil. It’s simple and works for just about any drug even though it’s not ideal. It’s not unlike using vodka to make liquids out of your bulk powder from China which is what I did when I thought I had bought bulk tadalafil.
Avanafil is not (rather is "barely") soluble in water and alcohol, so the crystals remain and it settled to the bottom. If you want it to dissolve, you have to use an organic ingestable solvent (mild acid.) As a results, you simply shake it up to mix it before drawing a dose. No matter what the carrier and drug is, it’s usually best and necessary to shake liquid meds up unless you have a true suspension liquid (like OTC cough syrup.)
I’ve bought 10 bottles of avanafil from Progen over several months. Usually two at a time while taking advantage of 50% off (or BoGo) with free shipping where they come out at $14 (with shipping.)
Of the 10 bottles…
5 Moreless the same and good. Mostly alcohol. It kind of burns to take it directly. Generally around 2mm of powder (as low as 1mm in some.)
1 Barely any avanafil in it (same mostly alcohol). Maybe .5mm at the bottom or less.
2 Some kind of new carrier that taste/smelled very nasty. After trying it once I regretted it and threw the bottles out. It was truly horrid.
2 Newest bottles have perhaps an improved carrier that is much less (if any) alcohol. The most pleasant to take.
By the way I messaged Progen about those two nasty bottles and they said the lab had changed liquids. They said they’d reformulate and send me new ones and never did (but I’m not broken up over it.) The bottles since then have the best carrier liquid so far.
Of those 5 earlier bottles, if you line them up side by side and compare the settled avanafil crystals at the bottom (against a light,) no two seem to have the same amount of crystals. On average they all have roughly 2mm of drug at the bottom. Some are closer to 1 mm, and one slightly more (than 2mm.) It looks like someone eyeballed the doses and was obviously inconsistent. Likewise when you shake/mix them the liquid turns milky white. The ones with more avanafil are almost opaque, the ones with less are somewhat clearish white. Obviously different concentrations.
The one with barely any avanafil in it appeared almost completely clear. It had less than .5mm of powder. What I eventually did was let it settle again, poured out most of the lliquid, and added what little concentrated avanafil at the bottom to another bottle that was a little light (I combined the drug into one bottle.) It wasn’t enough to make a big difference.
So when I complain of inconsistency, this is what I’m talking about. You can visually see the difference in powder amounts settled in these and it’s obvious that they’re not close to identically dosed and one downright had almost nothing. This translates into a big difference between how many mg you’re taking per ml. Fine, I generally take 2ml and sometimes I take a little extra if it’s a clearer bottle. But I can’t honestly tell you how many mg I’m really getting. Roughly 100mg-ish. I don’t care too much how accurate the dose is because I appear to be getting an effective dose.
At $14 including shipping (when they have the right sale,) the price can’t be beat. And yes, it has always worked (with the exception of 3 out of 10) so I can’t say that think I’ve ever gotten bunk avanafil. I still have about 5 bottles (1 new, 4 older) and intend to still use them until they’re gone. I know some guys have had bad side effects from it and it’s hard to say if that’s them and avanafil, or something about this product or their bottle.
The newest two bottles seem slightly improved over the older ones, so maybe they’ve improved their process a bit. But it still looks like they’re eyeballing dosage even though I got about 2mm +/- of powder in the lastest two (they’re pretty close to identical.) Maybe they’ve even improved measuring, IDK?
So I just don’t can’t progen right now for these reasons. I might still buy more bottles from them because of the great price because after all I do apparently get avanafil that works and maybe to see if they’ve improved, but take it for what it is. They use cheap bottles, cheap labeling, lazy product consistency/quality so far, and all of that makes me wonder how careful they are. Also, how good is their source of bulk avanafil? PuchasePeptides at least claims they test their chems for purity. Does progen? How good are they about making sure they’re selling when they get a new bulk supply shipment? (How good are any of these labs?)
On that note I got avanafil from madisonjamesresearch.com and I’m pretty sure it’s not avanafil (I think it’s tadalafil) which bummed me out. I’m not entirely sure they’re aware that it’s not avanafil.
So my search is on for a good reasonably priced avanafil from a source I can trust. GenX Peptides: Buy Peptides | Peptides For Sale sells it as well as a few other places (I think blueskypeptides does. I don’t remember.) When my progen stash gets low I might consider one of them. I’d order "Avana" (generic stendra avanafil) from a pill site like safemedpills but they’re really expensive.
Meanwhile I’ll stick with what I have. I’m trying out sildenafil and vardenafil right now as a potential alternative. PurchasePeptides sells it and I’ve grown to trust them them as a good source that’s not real expensive. I’ve given PurchaseP feedback asking them to stock avanafil so we’ll see if they ever get around to it.
If anyone has a good experience going forward with Progen, then please speak up.