Anabolic steroids and growth hormone for building muscle

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Does anybody have any first hand experience with these drugs? Do you recommend them? How hard are they to get?

I only know what I have read...
1. The effects are temporary.
2. Excessive use can lead to sterility and being barrel shaped.

Nope, I would avoid them like the plague.

I once worked with a guy who was slightly obsessive about his interests. He got into working out and started taking steroids. His personality changed completely, from a friendly interesting guy to something so aggressive that I couldn't deal with him any more.

Anything that messes with your hormone balance to such a degree - I would avoid.

Yeah, I knew a guy with AS who got into steroids....his interests became hanging around a bunch of half naked men, wanting to help each other "pump up"

Its just that for an aspie guy who is not happy with the way his face looks, bulking up at the gym is a great way to improve his looks. I certainly don't want to end up like that wrestler who killed his family out of roid rage and then killed himself. I think there is probably a happy medium somewhere when it comes to steroids.

One thing I am concerned with is just how temporary are they. Do ALL the gains disappear after you quit taking them?

Why anyone would want to screw around with their endocrine system is beyond me......

Do it the safe and natural way. Go to the gym and pump up. Get someone to introduce you to weight lifting so you do it correctly without injuring yourself. Then go home and eat protein: eggs, milk, meat, peanut butter, protein shakes (whey or soy).

Also try swimming! Proper front crawl technique will bulk you up, especially if you are using paddles.

Steroids definitely help with muscle building. There's no denying that. They are extremely dangerous though, and your huge muscles will leave you when you get older and leave behind a lot of wrinkled hanging skin. Yuck. Look:

http://www.discount-lenses.com/blog/wp- ... er_fat.jpg

HGH (growth hormone) does not seem to help much actually. The jury is still out on the benefits and side effects, and factual data is hard to come by, mainly because HGH is used covertly. (Duh!) If it is helping, it does so marginally. What it can do for sure is misshapes the skull into a cave man cromagnon look. You might have seen that look on some pro wrestlers? Yes that was HGH.

Google: Enlarged Heart Stereoids

...but ofcourse it is up to you. I'm looking forward to more episodes of Forensic Pathology with Dr G.

Bottom line is that if you have low testosterone for your age group, you would benefit from bringing it up to the level it should be. People who try to do that without knowing what all of their blood test levels are, will get their hormones all SNAFU'd, and have all kinds of problems. The problem is that most insurance won't pay for hormone testing. See a doctor who deals with hormone replacement therapy... Might be the best thing you ever did. More young men that we could imagine, have low T, and don't ever get diagnosed.

I am a bodybuilder, and I am on hormone replacement therapy. I'll tell you that I've been lifting since I was 14 or 15, and NEVER got where I wanted to be until I got my hormones to the proper levels for a man my age.

"Steroids" is a nasty word. It refers to testosterone cypionate (natural hormone), and various forms of artificial and animal-derived testosterone. HGH (human growth hormone) is the other main ingredient to growth & healing. Both are already in your body, but could be way low or way high. When a doctor gives these substances, it's no more "steroids abuse" than an Aspie taking 5mg of Adderall is "abusing Speed/amphetamines".

It's sure sad how society puts branded labels on things.... There are people who buy "steroids" and shoot them without having any idea what they're doing, and no idea what their levels are. One friend of mine; a competitive lifter and world-competitive surfer, died at age 29 from "steroid abuse". Please know what you're doing, and follow a doctor's orders to bring hormone levels to optimum levels... Don't just guess.

Charles

I haven't used anabolic steroids, but I did recently stop taking steroids (hormone replacement) that I took for over a year. The word 'steroid' scares me now, whether it's hormone replacement ones or not. Lots of (negative) side effects, including about 70lbs of weight gain.

OP - So what exactly are your current free test levels?