When I got off creatine, my lifts and my energy levels dropped; I went from doing 285*10 deadlift to 285*6, bench went down from 185*5 to 185*3

Has anyone else experienced this decline with regards to stopping creatine cold turkey?

I was doing about 5g daily.

Has anyone else experienced this decline in their performance after quitting creatine? Like it's creatine, its not tren ffs?!?

up the crea

why would u ever do 10 rep deadlifts

its all in your head btw

you wont retain the strength gains from creatine unless you continue to use it

why not do 10 rep deadlifts?

And i stopped using it cus I want the body to naturally go back to producing it and not become reliant on it

You taking in an exogenous source of creatine doesn't change your body naturally occurring creatine...

Also, 10 reps is death.

e: go take tren.

This post was edited by ozzyarmy3 on Sep 2 2019 03:44pm

"Sustained high doses may inhibit the body from absorbing creatine in skeletal muscle and interrupt the production of natural creatine in the liver. This is because the body will not waste energy storing or producing creatine if it is already present at high levels. In addition, taking higher doses may place extraordinary stress on the kidneys, as they will have to work harder to
remove any unabsorbed creatine from the blood stream. "
http://www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au/internet/drugstrategy/Publishing.nsf/content/4B7DF427E878090BCA2575B4001353AB/$File/fs_creatine.pdf

According to this, it will supress it. But they don't define what ''too much" is.

Prove me wrong ozzyarmy3

I mean, I can't prove something wrong that's obviously true. I think you're overthinking taking creatine.

It's not obviously true to me that taking an exogenous source of creatine doesn't change my natural creatine production.
The way i see it is that if your body is getting too much of something from the outside, it will stop producing it naturally, as it already has enough of it.

That's why I'm considering pausing my creatine, so my body can go back to it's baseline production, and then going back on it at a later point in time.
But that's just my guess.