I lived in Southern California all through the 90’s
when bodybuilding was at its peak.
I’ve competed for two decades and been trainer had my own business in fitness the whole bit
Trained with and knew many of the big name professionals.
But even to this day seeing the average person juicing. I use to think it’s every persons choice and if you want to deal with the side effects it up to you. I can say this though after 30 years in the industry it’s absolutely not with it. You come out way worse after. It took me a long time to see it.
Many of my friends from back then are dealing with life long side effects and looks terrible some are dead. Some have continued taking them and yes they look ok but believe me they are physically sick in so many ways.
To me that’s the least of my concern.
Looking back almost all relationships have been severely impacted. The mental and emotional toll are severe. Steroids don’t just affect the user it affects everyone around.
I’ve taken a strong stance against it.
I’ve heard every excuse there is I use to believe them myself.
But you can’t convince anyone that has set their mind to do them. It’s useless.
It’s unfortunate most have to learn the hard way.

Hey guys I'mI'm a university student from Zimbabwe and I'm writing an article about use of anabolic steroids in general...may anyone interested in conversing with me on this issue send me a WhatsApp message on +263783298592.I would really appreciate if someone who has used the or knows someone who uses them or even a doctor please assist as this is part of my school project thank you

steroids are pure shite full stop

Hi all,

I am a hep. B carrier. I am very concern about my overall health.
Is taking Test E steriod safe for me?

Eric

i m 25year and i use steroid decaduraboline not for long time but for lil bit time it gives me good body but aftr leaving steroid there was n lots of problem with liver problem sex problem even now i cant do gym even i cant get muscularity from tommoroww i start running i think running makes me perfect but i m getting dipreessed from my body because i cant get my body back i want to make perfect physic but i cant any solution then pls tell me please its a humble request

how are steroids good for you

I just want to inform those people who said steroids are not good for health and it’s stop your growing height and it’s increases inflammation and swelling please read some blogs on web and kindly don’t spread wrong information. It is theoretically approved that Steroids decrease inflammation and swelling and nothing have any relation with height but it’s increase height furthermore; if you use standard quality products and use it in a intelligent way they have no side effects and you will not face any pain in future.

PLEASE BE CONFIDENT IN THE FACT THAT YOU CAN LOOK GREAT BY JUST DOING THE RIGHT THINGS IN THE GYM WITH THE RIGHT FOODS. I WAS SEEING A GUY WHO DID STEROIDS AND WHEN HE WAS ON THEM HE WAS A TOTAL ASSHOLE AND FIGHTING ALL THE TIME. HE WAS VERY HARD TO GET ALONG WITH AND GOT REALLY BAD FACE ACNE. HIS BODY WAS AMAZING BUT IT NEVER LASTS BECAUSE YOU EITHER HAVE TO AT SOME POINT GET OFF THEM OR DIE. AND WHEN HE DID HE LOOKED LIKE SHIT. BE CAREFUL IF YOU CAN GET GOOD RESULTS WITHOUT DRUGS YOU CAN ALSO COME OUT OF TRAINING WITH A FUNCTIONING HEART AND HEALTHY LIVER.

I am 48 years old, and I'm 25 years already using anabolic steroids, the article is well clear that are talking about the ABUSE, of it.. But let me to tell you that if you use it in a intelligent way they are just fantastic.. The problem is that there are too much disinformation scaring and misunderstanding about it... I will tell you just a little pic of it, never use the orals they are too dangerous, I never use more than 300 mg a week, rarely use that much and my normal use is 100 mg a week... Some times i stop for some month is very important the use of hepatoprotector while on it....  

Streiods can increased my height 6-8 inches, now I'm 24 years old male,from Bangladesha.

I have a weird question. .. if you're sleeping with a guy using steroids can his sperm cause you to start getting acne when you haven't had acne? The steroids Are causing his skin to break out in zits and now mine is too?

I'am at the age of fifty and I'am thinking on doing steroids for the first time, I have been lifting and working out for about thirty years now I would like to get some size back and this will be the first time I have tried steroids. so there are so many different names out there. so my question is what do I order for the first time around. and how often do I take them and what quantities do I take them.

I am from Bangladesh. I have been using steroid medicine since last 8 year long. I felt some difficulty but it's very simple than cure up from myopathy.

I am from Bangladesh. I have been using steroid medicine since last 8 year long. I felt some difficulty but it's very simple than cure up from myopathy.

Are their any recommended sites online to buy these? I dont know where to start, a doctor of some kind maybe? I have dropped about 40lbs and I lost a lot of muscle in the process.

This person has no idea of what they are writing about. Just another in the mob-like attack on something they do not understand. Do some research before you collect a paycheck. Steroid pyramiding hasn't been done since the early eighties, most people are not sick in the head as this would have you believe, but are simply attempting to further a career(due to pressures of society to have to be perfect to be allowed to train the average person or model clothes or fucking anything related), and it is nowhere as near as dangerous as this suggests as long as the user is educated and cautious. The people that fuck themselves up are the idiots that don't know anything and choose to remain ignorant while thinking they have found some magic potion for aesthetic perfection. This "expert" is just taking money to further a false stigma because they are one of the willingly ignorant jackasses I mentioned above. It is people like this that make the free speach rights-among others-of our country seem not as great as they were prior to reading this...

hi i am 24 and i took steroids 6-7 years ago i wish my doctor had told me directly intead of telling my parent what will happen and how much i ll gain weight i wouldnt have took that medican. i tried to loss weight by doing lost of things like execise even weight lifting and dieting even i tired to take stuff that i am allergic to keep my stomach disturbed so that i avoid gaining more weight but that hurts alot i am so disappointed that i am double the weight i was before i dont know what to do anymore..

Help I have a friend who is a gym goer Im not sure of his quantity or how long he has been taking steroids, but stopped recently because he had really bad neck pain. No dr or scan, ultrasound etc showed anything. Put on huge pain killer amounts didnt help alot but felt after about six weeks some relief. Until today when he thinks a prior knee issue has flared up. If this a result of steroid abuse how long before it heals? Im pretty sure he wont touch them again. He can handle all over aches and pains but these last two injuries have had him off work.

I've used steroids on & off for 19 years, had full bloodwork come back as perfect, ECG & blood pressure, & cholesterol also perfect ( doctors words) I also like the party seen & a drink now & then. Got 2 beautifully kids life good! Get knowledge u can do small dosages all your life ( same as going on male hormone replacement)I'm nearly 38 years old. Been off gear for 9 months now but will defo go back on soon ( few injurys to get over first). If u do decide to use get knowledge first, most side effects can be eradicated! The 1 negative fact a cardiologist will tell u is long term can enlarge heart & cause heart attack. If u have heart disease in your family then stay away long term! Anyone healthy should not occure any problems, just get regular bloods & even pay privately to get heart scans done! Smoking, excess drinking & shit fast food diet is much worse than a low dosing body builders fact!!!

OH MY GOD!!!

PLEASE PEOPLE DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS 'SO-CALLED EXPERT'.

HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CORTICOSTEROIDS AND STEROIDS!

Yes, ALL STEROIDS ARE BAD FOR YOU IF ABUSED AND SOMETIMES EVEN OF TAKEN IN MODERATION, BUT PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO THIS PERSON!

good job

Everything on this article is true and extremely manipulated, which makes the whole article "garbage". Lying with the truth to get your point across, when people are actually looking for unbiased information is wrong.

i'm addicted of bodybilding but not improve in my body without steroids,i'm not merred.so plz tell me sir will be effects on my sex in future.sir what i do...

I work for a pain management Doc. He injects with steriods as often as he possibly can. I am worried about how much and how often this is done. This worries me, as with our EMR system it doesn't log correctly or calculate the steroids injected for each patient. We need to better track this and I don't think he is really interested....maybe this is all in my head but it concerns me. Drug interactions are not being addressed....in fact, he said it was the problem of the other doctors to gave them the conflicting drugs. Geeeez

Hello my name is janet and my boyfriend uses steroids and does not exercise and smokes 3 packs of cigs a day and drinks beer from 7 in the morning till 1 in the morning and takes perscription drugs..I know this is bad he is going to die

Is it possible that someone could have put steroids into my food or drink? We are talking late 1960s here. A very, very jealous and disturbed girl who hated me for my looks taunted me mercilessly about my upper body... she even said this to me once (suggestively): "I wonder how you got those big muscles...your sisters don't have them." This girl was a psychopath, I realize that now. But...can someone tell me if it was possible for her to have gotten steroids into me without my knowing it?

Hye Guys ..... i m very upset about my body. i m 20 years old and my height is 6 f't cause of that my body look alike a heighted girl plz tell me some "tablets name of steroids" those are beneficial for my body and my health....whatever i eat i do not become healthy but my tommy becomes fatty ....plz someone help me m tired of this body.......

there has not been one proven case that steroids causes all these side effects or deaths, every single athelete or person who has commited suice etc, was on anti depressants n other drugs, also steroids have been proven in other countries that it will actually raise ur intellectuality, muscle size, strenght, and bone mass, i dont know how steroids, can affect ur sex drive, or make you give u bone disorders, if your injecting male hormones into ur body, the fda is very very corrupted and will do whatever it takes to keep poepl on medication all the time, n if one shoots steroids once every 2 months people will be extremely healthy, do ur reaserch outside of the fda, u will read alot of opposittes

My mother is nearly dying from a doctor prescribing her steroids. He is an Oncologist. He left her stranded on the drug. I had to speak to someone who as weined off the steroid and do the same for her. She is having (Permanent) side effects that the doctors do not inform the patients about. These will kill you during chemo. There are non steroid.. anti inflammatory drugs the doctors can prescribe instead. I am just on here to warn you to stick up for your body and organs. Because you can't over come the permanent damage of side effects. The same steroids killed a womans son. Its a deadly drug.

They doctors get kick backs for prescribing it. Stand up for your rights and your families rights. Tell them you want no more steroids and only non steroid nonflammatory drugs. Also.. make sure its in your chart and be sure to include it on a signed paper for your chart. The doctors are over prescribing and trying to scare patients and families into this trap. Boswillia Serrata .. Organic and Tumeric Organic shrinks brain tumors. Both reduce inflammation naturally.

thanx to Patrick Dixon.you know some people have everything they have ever dreamt of but they are not healthy like. us and we are we don't appreciate that....God!we should love ourselves first .

can u see a change in body building within a month when using steroids ad what kind on steroids is more safer,pills or injection

does steroid use increase height?

hahahaha

Steroids really improve my quality of life. Whenever I take steroids, my physical AND MENTAL focus go through the roof. My confidence rises, my sex drive increases, and I feel almost bulletproof. To be honest, I am a much more capable person with steroids than without them.

Through my use of steroids of the years, I have noticed that people pay much more attention to me in positive regard - with job offers, physical attraction of others, sporting events, community events, and offers of friendship in general. The media is always hammering away at steroids so negatively that no one ever thinks about the positive aspects that can be gained through their use. Before I started using steroids I never had much drive in doing things and I was always the shy, timid guy. Steroids gave me the focus and drive I needed.

Don't abuse them and take proper precautions with regard to dosing and possible side effects. Everyone is different and there are many different types of steroids out there. Good luck friends!

I am12 years old and i used to take steroid since when i was 6 years old.Does it can cause any side effects on my body?

i have been having some problems with an underactive thyroid which has caused it to grow into a goiter in larged thyroid glad which is causeing loads of problems like pressure on my thick it beening swollen out and not bee able to sleep well due to goiter pressing on my windpipe i was at hospital today and have told they may have to start giving me steroids by month wht ever tht means but seeing all this has scred me alot and frackly puttin me right off but i need to do something i,ve only just turned 30

eXCUSE ME WHY R U TAKIN STERIODS IT IS VERY BAD AND HAS VERY STRONG SIDE EFFECTS, IT IS OK TO USE IT IF IT IS A MEDICAL PURPOSE

WAKE UP,I AM 12 BUT I AM NOT STUPID I NO THE SIDE EFFECTS

i have been using steroids for 2 years now and have seen massive improvements. although i have extreme rage all the time and my acne increased i do not regret taking them. :)

DONT DO STERIODS!! YOU WILL DIE!!!

Steroids are good for the soul.

steroids are bad

I AM READING SO MUCH AND MY HUSBAND STARTED INJECTING THESE THINGS IN HIM FOR A GOOD WHILE NOW WITHOUT A BREAK. HIS MUSCLES ARE GETTING BIG BUT SOMETHING ELSE SEEMS TO BE WRONG WITH HIM ALL THE TIME. HE HAS HEP-C ANTI BODIES BUT LEVELS UP TO NOW HAVE BEEN IN NORMAL RANGE DURING LIVER PANEL BLOOD TEST SCANS. HE HAS AVASCULAR NEUCROSIS WHICH IS A BONE DISORDER HE HAS BONES DYING (HIP) CAUSING EXCRUTIATING PAIN SOMETIMES HE GETS SO ILL NATURED AND SHORT. HE WENT AND THEY DID BLOOD WORK ON HIM A WHILE BACK AND WANTED HIM TO COME IN BECAUSE THERE WAS A LOT WRONG.....GOOD CHOLESTEROL DOWN AND BAD CHOLESTEROL WENT UP..........WHITE BLOOD COUNT HIGH WITH HEPATIC IRREGULARITIES. HE WON'T GO AND TALK TO THEM. HE IS DOING THESE STEROIDS ON HIS OWN WITHOUT DOCTORS SUPERVISION AND ON MANY PRESCRIPTION MEDS. I AM VERY WORRIED ABOUT THIS IT SEEMS LIKE ALL I READ ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS AND THE ORGANS ETC THEY AFFECT ARE AREAS MY HUSBAND IS HAVING TROUBLE WITH. I CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE HIM REALIZE THE DANGER INVOLVED IN THIS. I MEAN ANY MEDICATION OUT THERE THAT CAN DO A LOT OF GOOD ISN'T NECESSARILY GOOD FOR EVERYBODY. SIDE EFFECTS ARE PUT ON THE PAPERS YOU GET WITH YOUR PRESCRIPTION FOR YOUR SAFTEY RIGHT. YOUR BEST FRIEND THINKS IT IS THE BOMB AND THE BEST THING EVER AND YOU TAKE IT AND END UP IN THE HOSPITAL. I DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO MAKE HIM UNDERSTAND ALL THIS GOING WRONG ISN'T SOME WEIRD COINICIDENCE. AM I JUST BEING PARANOID? HE GETS ANGRY TOO SOMETIMES AND I AM A BIT AFRAID OF HIM. IS THERE A PROGRAM OR MOVIE I CAN AQUIRE THAT IF HE WATCHES MIGHT OPEN HIS EYES. I DON'T WANT HIM TO HAVE SOMETHING GET WRONG AND CAN'T BE FIXED.

Hi can anyone tell me if it is dangerous to take roids and not exercise. I have a friend that has been taking them for about 2 months and does not do any physical activity. Does the drug need to be worked out of the system ?

Comment:
The negative side effect is to be evaluated prior administration of drug (steroid), and in like manner with the correct supervision of medical Dr. Specialist. But I refuse or gross disagreement on the commercial statement that self medication is prohibited. On my part I use to study/learn the medical book and other source of info, on subject most needed for health care and most important is nutrition or body nutrients. A complete mineral and vitamins for human diet nothing illness to come in the human body. Now I know what western drug be prescribed to different illness for shelf medication. Now I am 72 years old still in a prime health, but prior at age 60 only to find out from my research gathered from different medical journals and others, that eating eggs, full crame milk, red meat, vegetable, are the human foods with complete nutrients. Thus, I follow religiously. If I need laboratory test that is the time I go to, to any DR. that can make a referral for laboratory testing. But I do not follow to buy all the drugs prescribed, but only I believed necessary to cure my Illness per blood test result . And by that I completely healed .
I am in duty to learn medicine because Medical Dr. in our place prescribed the most expensive drug when it can be healed by not expensive drugs. The basic example to mention drug for rhinitis allergy a simple Claritin, celestamine or prednisone steroid derivative whichever available, I am enough to be healed for 1 or 2 tablets (good to a night or 2 sleep), but DR. so many kinds, so prescribed the most expensive that cost you thousands of US dollar if you buy all. Also for arthritis so much pain reliever to prescribe when the clocosamine with chondroitine are the appropriate supplement to ease from recurrent ( I use this supplement since 5 years already, Dr may be know it but do not like to prescribe).
I started self medication since 2000, and do not believe that cholesterol is the cause of death of heart block. If all of us learn to know the important of nutrients, there will no more be groaning because of too much high in cost of medicine because illness can be minimised except on God’s well.

Comment:
The negative side effect is to be evaluated prior administration of drug (steroid), and in like manner with the correct supervision of medical Dr. Specialist. But I refuse or gross disagreement on the commercial statement that self medication is prohibited. On my part I use to study/learn the medical book and other source of info, on subject most needed for health care and most important is nutrition or body nutrients. A complete mineral and vitamins for human diet nothing illness to come in the human body. Now I know what western drug be prescribed to different illness for shelf medication. Now I am 72 years old still in a prime health, but prior at age 60 only to find out from my research gathered from different medical journals and others, that eating eggs, full crame milk, red meat, vegetable, are the human foods with complete nutrients. Thus, I follow religiously. If I need laboratory test that is the time I go to, to any DR. that can make a referral for laboratory testing. But I do not follow to buy all the drugs prescribed, but only I believed necessary to cure my Illness per blood test result . And by that I completely healed .
I am in duty to learn medicine because Medical Dr. in our place prescribed the most expensive drug when it can be healed by not expensive drugs. The basic example to mention drug for rhinitis allergy a simple Claritin, celestamine or prednisone steroid derivative whichever available, I am enough to be healed for 1 or 2 tablets (good to a night or 2 sleep), but DR. so many kinds, so prescribed the most expensive that cost you thousands of US dollar if you buy all. Also for arthritis so much pain reliever to prescribe when the clocosamine with chondroitine are the appropriate supplement to ease from recurrent ( I use this supplement since 5 years already, Dr does not know this).
I started self medication since 2000, and do not believe that cholesterol is the cause of death of heart block. If all of us learn to know the important of nutrients, there will no more be groaning because of too much high in cost of medicine because illness can be minimised except on God’s well.

Comment:
The negative side effect is to be evaluated prior administration of drug (steroid), and in like manner with the correct supervision of medical Dr. Specialist. But I refuse or gross disagreement on the commercial statement that self medication is prohibited. On my part I use to study/learn the medical book and other source of info, on subject most needed for health care and most important is nutrition or body nutrients. A complete mineral and vitamins for human diet nothing illness to come in the human body. Now I know what western drug be prescribed to different illness for shelf medication. Now I am 72 years old still in a prime health, but prior at age 60 only to find out from my research gathered from different medical journals and others, that eating eggs, full crame milk, red meat, vegetable, are the human foods with complete nutrients. Thus, I follow religiously. If I need laboratory test that is the time I go to, to any DR. that can make a referral for laboratory testing. But I do not follow to buy all the drugs prescribed, but only I believed necessary to cure my Illness per blood test result . And by that I completely healed .
I am in duty to learn medicine because Medical Dr. in our place prescribed the most expensive drug when it can be healed by not expensive drugs. The basic example to mention drug for rhinitis allergy a simple Claritin or celestamine I am enough to be healed for 1 or 2 tablets, but DR. so many kinds, so prescribed the most expensive that cost you thousands of hundred of US dollar if you buy all. Also arthritis so much pain reliever to prescribe when the clocosamine with chondroitine are the appropriate supplement to ease from recurrent ( I use this supplement since 5 years already, Dr does not know this).
I started self medication since 2000, and do not believe that cholesterol is the cause of death of heart block. If all of us learn to know the important of nutrients, there will no more be groaning because of too much high in cost of medicine because illness can be minimised except on God’s well.

So I watched the Documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" and it made me look at steroids in a different way. I am 33 years old and struggle with my weight a lot. I get tired of my family telling me to loose weight.....I am Healthy for my size, I walk everyday, I do my gym excerises, but I don't loose weight, I am stronger and feel better than I did when I first started, but my weight is still the same, don't gain any, don't loose any.

I am seriously concidering taking steroids to help me with my physic. I have been all over the net looking for the pro's and con's to why I should and shouldn't take steroids. So far from everything I have read, I am leaning to the pro side of doing steroids. Here is why: true that the side affects of using steroids are low sperm count, "bitch tits", acne, extra body hair (which confuses me to how you can be going bald, yet grow hair.....that seems to happen even with out steroids), etc., but those side affects for men are only tempary, as long as your on steroids this things will happen, but once you stop taking steroids, these affects are reverseable. As far as women and teenagers, the side affects are permanit.

There are no real studies as far as the long term affects of steroid use. From what I have been reading, people who seem to use steroids also use other drugs, so can it be argued that steroids are a gateway drug.......does sound like it to me. Also from what I have read, steroids will increase the rate of growth in cancers and other diseases. You can throw names out there to argue that steroids will kill you and there are side affects from steroids; names like Chris Benoit, or Lyle Alzado. Chris Benoit would Head butt a person from the top rope of the ring. that is about 4 feet of the bottom of the ring, add to that his height, about 6'1"......head butting from about 10 feet of the ground everyone knows that that will cause some damage, that right there is just common sense.....so did steroids cause the concusions, or did they just speed up the developement of his mental break down???? Lyle Alzado admitted to having used steroids in his hay day. If he hadn't used steroids, would he have developed cancer??? Only God knows. Did Steroids speed up the cancer growth, I personally think that they did, but I am just a guy researching the pro's and con's on steroid use, not a doctor.

So are the risks for me worth it???? So far I feel that the answer is YES. However, I am still keeping my option to Not Use Steroids. So If there is anything that you can present, any study that shows what the long term side affects are, I would be more than Happy to look it over. Honestly, I have not yet found a study on the Internet saying that Steroids will kill you, that Steroids cause diseases, that Steroids are are dangerous on a long run.

thank you

A poorly researched and badly written article. The connection between steroid use and child abuse was laughable. You want the real reason why people take steroids? Look at Men's Health Magazine, or any Hollywood action movie, or competitive sports. All filled with men and women who have taken STEROIDS. Do you think Arnold Schwarzenegger got his physique from eating sauerkraut? Or Sly Stallone from eating his mom's spaghetti?

People take steroids because they want to emulate their heroes and have the body of Adonis. Plain and simple. Furthermore, yes steroids can give you gynocomastia and other health defects. The fact is that most steroid users are well aware of these risks and take drugs to combat them.

Your comment "More than half of body-builder sterod abusers will typically experience enlarged breasts and shrunken male organs" was not referenced to any research or poll. People who take steroids without
a) doing their research and
b) taking the appropriate medicine to counteract gyno, estrogen etc eg: nolvadex, arimidex, clomid

..are idiots. Steroids CAN be taken with minimal side effects and risks if the user informs his or herself and is sensible.

Where are the reports to back this article up? There has benn no research done on steriod use so how can this jerk make those comments? Steriods are use to help fight HIV and MD..... Maybe someone should push to have an actual study done so we can prove if these statements are true or not???

You people have a very very bad defintion of abuse.Abuse would be taking ANY drug much much longer than whats good for you.Taking a drug non-stop until it causes obvious problems is abuse. Taking roids without a dr. telling you to take it does not mean you are abusing them right from the first pill or injection as you make it sound.Thats nonsense.

I have gained a lot of weight in one year is there any steriods that can help me lose weight faster while im working out in the gym.

she use to take steroids at the time of pregnency according to the doctors prescription. She got delivery before 2 months now her Creatinine level is high its 2.13 and the doctor has done biopsy of kidney And reports states that One core with 9 glomeruli. All the glomeruli show mesangial Hypercellularity with mild neutrophilic exudation and matrix expansion. There is no Evidence of basement Membrance Thickening or crescents. Interstitium Shows Diffuse Dense Mixed Inflammation Along with focal Fibrosis and patchy Tubular atrophy and now they are giving the steroids will this cause any problem

'My latest liver enzymes were elevated AST-113 ALT-88. I use a LOT of topical steroid cream for mod/severe psoriasis. Can this affect my liver?'

I'm doing an addictive drug project and this site is incredibly helpful!

i bn using steroids for 4 years and my opinon is they are addictive...... 1st of id cycle but i got to a point were i couldnt handle the wait loss so now im always on them they are very powerful drugs dangerous i do not now bu boy they work id advise to study them before you try

Hmmm. Very interesting.

I certainly do not profess any expertise on the subject of steroids and neither advocate nor condemn their use by athletes or anyone else. That said, I do find a couple things about your piece a bit disturbing and dubious.

You speak of "abuse" and then in response to a question define "abuse" as any use not prescribed for a medical condition. This is specious, I believe, given that your article talks of all those terrifying side effects being a result of "abuse".

I could understand if you ascribed side effects to "misuse" - i.e. prolonged, unregulated, or otherwise careless use - but as worded your article implies that any non-medical use risks catastrophe.

You are free to believe that and to state it, of course, but I am always more than a tad skeptical when sweeping declarations of this sort are not accompanied by references and citations allowing readers to check the science themselves. Lacking such references, such statements smack of (unfounded) personal opinion.

If the "typical" side effects you describe are indeed "typical" when steroids are "abused" (used other than pursuant to a prescription), why is this not manifested in hundreds of prematurely balding Major League baseball players, male Olympic swimmers and sprinters with boobs, etc etc etc.?

Have people died, lost hair, or destroyed livers as a result of steroid us? Probably. Just as people have died, lost hair, and destroyed livers as a result of alcohol use. And just as people have died from taking aspirin. These facts tell us nothing of value, absent scientific study documenting circumstances and details such as amounts, purity of product, dosages, frequency of use, longevity of use and so forth.

I truly don't wish to be critical but, frankly, your piece reads more like hysteria than informed fact.

John

Hi, A very interesting article on the negatives of steroid abuse. What would be helpfull is if you could highlight what actually defines "abuse". Is it the use of steroids without medical advice or is there a limit that if taken over would be classed as abuse. I have just started a course of Dianabol and am looking forward to the positive effects of muscle growth accelaration in the gym. I am aware of the possible side effects but as with all illegal substances these are over hyped in the media and as such not as risky as they are made out.
If possible it would be good to have the positives of taking steroids and why this is so prevalent in sport supported by the government. There are purposefully not enough drug tests out there to enable athletes to improve and compete at the level they do after all, everyone loves to see records broken in the olympics and without the use of steroids this would not be possible to the extent that has been recorded to date. MAny thanks for your time I look forward to your response.

How long do steroids stay in the system? A local group of high school ball players need to be tested and I don't know what the window is. Anyone out there have info?

im really skinny and I just want to grow some wait!
I workout alot and I eat alot but I cant seem to grow!
would steroids kill me if I take it at my age?