steroids

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

Tallulah, I know for certain with you, and Nailhead, I strongly suspect with you, too, that you were likely put on cortico-steroids, not on anabolic steroids. Cortico-steroids like prednisone or a Medrol dose pack (ever-dwindling doses) or dexamethasone are used medically a lot as anti-inflammatories or immuno-suppressants. I took those, too, after my spinal surgery to reduce neurological inflammation. They are commonly prescribed and have plenty of justified uses, like allergic reactions or immuno-suppression or various others. While they do have some nasty side-effects, they're not anything like anabolic steroids, which are synthetic androgens (fake male hormones). The corticosteroid I took after my spinal surgery made me irritable and hungry and very depressed, but those symptoms fortunately went away as soon as I stopped them.

Anabolic steroids have far fewer legitimate medical applications than cortico-steroids. Occasionally anabolics will be used for a brief time under close supervision to boost stunted growth or stop wasting diseases such as HIV or cancer, but they're far more frequently used illegally and improperly.

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Yes, you are right. Thank you for clarifying that! My mom is on Prednisone like the rest of her life.
...and yes Prednisone was in fact what I was put on. They started me at 50mg and I was on them for 2 weeks because I had to be weened off of them. Awful things I tell you!

another big misconception about roids is that they're this fountain of muscle....you dont just take them and muscle appears....they mainly just increase protein synthesis....you still have to work out insanely hard, you still have to consume a ton of protein...otherwise you wont see any results. they're very expensive and of course you run the risk of getting some bogus blackmarket roid that isn't what it says it is.... the health risks to your joints, tendons, ligaments, heart, brain, etc are huge.

if you take the right concoction of legal supplements like whey protein, glutamine, creatine, etc....work out hard, eat right.....you'll pack on the pounds. you really need to research into how your body works and how to manipulate your bodies metabolic pathways and protein synthesis the legal and healthy way - you can have just as good of results if you know what you're doing.

I highly recommend looking into a company called AST Research sometimes called AST sports science.....they make the best supplements and provide LOADS of research on their webpage into how the human body works. they're the only company that does scientific research into their products and they dont sell snake oil products like many of these other crappy companies out there.

there was a point in my life where I was a skinny 145lbs. in less than a year I bulked up to 185lbs with 5% bodyfat. I did it all without steriods.