steroids

[birdgirl73]

I've taken mild forms of steroids for medical reasons, I'm not sure how similar they are to what you take, but I just know it's not fun stuff and I would never even think of using them unless the pros outweight the negatives. The last time I took a prescription steroid I had to leave work early and go to urgent care because I thought I was having a heart attack or something....I will never take that drug ever again because of those side effects. . . . Again, maybe it's a different form of steroids, but I can't imagine your form is really any safer!

I was put on steroids for my poison oak for 2 weeks. They were horrible. I was hungry all the time, I would never shut up, and I was an irritated bitch!

Too much stuff happening around me and I would get way stressed out and freak out...Steroids SUCK. I hope to never have to be on them again!!

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.