"Steroids have been known to be a great cause of Liver Cancer. If you keep taking them you will die young."

"Steroids cause fits of uncontollable rage. You will go psycho, almost skitzo, and you will be totally uncontrollable. Some one will make you mad and on day you will snap and bash them into smitherines"

"No one goes to jail for steroids. They go to jail because of crimes comitted out of rage."

At this point she got out the book and started reading side effects... Shrunken testicles, edema, etc...

She never happened to ask me what i was taking.

She said i should get a trainer instead of taking steroids... I shouldn't use them as an easy way out... She said that if i would train hard legally with a trainer that i would get the gains i want...I told her BS... I train hard, roids aren't a substitute, just a supplement to aid... I have my diet right, and my training right... She said my problem is that i workout wrong thats why i take them.

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I don't think most docs are very intelligent, they are trained to memorize & regurgitate & thus they tend to perpetuate alot of BS.

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I work in the Emergency Room with a bunch of docs...I ask them all the time about issues pertaining to training, fitness, etc. Most of them really have to think to give me an educated answer. The bottom line is that docs have to learn so much; they don�t have room for things like this. Not to mention they don�t see cases like this every day.

She probably was a family practice doc, right? Which means she deals with stuff like diabetes, kidney failure, gastrointestinal problems, HEENT (Head, ears, eyes, nose, throat), and the like. If the problem is too serious, then they go to specialists. In my opinion, most family practice docs don�t know much about anything.

Unless you talk to a doctor who specialized in sports medicine, you are not going to get any correct information. But even then, chances are, you will not get proper information. Very few of them have any personal experience. Since they very rarely see cases like this, they have to refer to some book about some outdated information. I guarantee that the reason why she didn�t ask you what you were taking, is because she has no earthly idea how many different types of anabolic steroids there are on the market. Next time you see her, tell her what your taking and make her tell you what it does, how it affects your body, and the side effects. All you will see is a pale faced, blank stare! All she did was read some things in a book that was mumbo jumbo to her and tried to make sense out of it, hence, her dumb, ignorant answers about steroids, 95% water weight, roid rage, etc.

Shoot, how long have bodybuilders known about proper nutrition? Society is only now following decent nutritional advice with regards to Protein and Carbs. Remember the days (wait, you might be too young) when people wanted to loose weight so they ate no fat and all carbs. "Eat a baked potato. It has no fat. How about a bagel...no fat, I think I will eat three."

What about protein? Man, I remember people taking a nutrition class in college and when they would see me consuming great amounts of protein, they would say, in an all great knowing voice, "You know, all that protein wont do you any good. You�re just damaging your kidneys, and its all going to waste." I wasn�t even exposed to Roids, but I sure as heck wanted to whip the living Sh$t outta him/her! Now what to we have? Mr. Adkins in all his Glory, trying to teach the country this radical thinking about how protein is good and a zero carb diet will allow you to loose weight. And the country went wild, "Protein is great, Yeaaa, yipee." Whatever. His diet still sucks, but at least people don�t freak out when I slam a protein shake.

Well at least most people. I had this little nerd try to feed me a line of crap talking about "You know all that protein is being wasted." I wanted to slap the freaking skin off that boys face! I looked him straight in the face and said, "Oh yea, well I guess I didn�t get this big by eating/drinking all this protein, it must have been all that salad and celery sticks." Then I preceded to tell this future doctor about how there are 20 essential amino acids that our body can not make on its own, and that how am I supposed to repair muscle, which is made up of protein, without giving it the essential building blocks to get the job done. He didn�t know what to say. So I grabbed a swig and told him to go try and build a brick house with out any bricks. He shut up. Freaking little twerp! He tried to back peddle after that one. But I just turned away and took me another huge swig.

Sorry for the rant, but sometimes people can be so stupid!!! Not just with this subject but with all of life's little avenues. People need to look at the true facts and not just try to stand on rumors, their personal feelings, and fears.

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I was like is that why i gained 50lbs since last February

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LMAO----I wish I could of seen her expression when you said, how did she respond, probably something like "Well......uhhhh......drugs are bad mmmkay"