AAS damage and aging to the skin reversible after some time on just trt dose?

[my_way]

I looked in the mirror recently and I am absolutely mortified by how much I’ve aged just in 2 years. I’ve got circles under my eyes dark enough to look like a raccoon, lines on forehead, acne scars. It’s fucking with my head as I’m only 27 yet look a good 10 years older. The stress, poor diet and lack of sleep hasn’t helped either.

I now understand that high doses in general will cause the face to look rough and leathery skin. Admittedly I have abused high doses of DHT derivatives like masteron, winstrol and anavar. Is this reversible after some time on a simple trt dose and better diet?

I even took a pic of myself today to compare with one of me two years ago and the difference is staggering.

 

[Tomgrass]

Mate dont stress you will be fine , just go to trt , take 2-3iu gh take retinol and in general take care about yourself. Go diet based on fat not carbs ( 100 grams or less )and you will surprise in 6 months.

 

[Fa Seeshus]

I generally stick with the proven genetic stuff, but Pharma grade GH for some reason makes the skin look younger.

When I switch to the orange gh pens (norditropin if I remember right), it is very noticible after a month No insane dosing because of the money... I think i use like 2-3 iu.

 

[UberLOL]

I looked in the mirror recently and I am absolutely mortified by how much I’ve aged just in 2 years. I’ve got circles under my eyes dark enough to look like a raccoon, lines on forehead, acne scars. It’s fucking with my head as I’m only 27 yet look a good 10 years older. The stress, poor diet and lack of sleep hasn’t helped either.

I now understand that high doses in general will cause the face to look rough and leathery skin. Admittedly I have abused high doses of DHT derivatives like masteron, winstrol and anavar. Is this reversible after some time on a simple trt dose and better diet?

I even took a pic of myself today to compare with one of me two years ago and the difference is staggering.

Dr Dean St Mart talks about this a lot in some podcasts. The main mechanism for leather face is oxidative stress from all your biological processes being upregulated (hence muscle growth). Your mitochondria are working overtime. You need antioxidants to buffer this stress. A cycle of injectable glutathione is a good start and, for me, mandatory on any blast.

Other things you can do:

Get a cheap serum from the ordinary and source cheap GHK-cu from china. Then dump a gram into the serum and use after microneedling. Snap-8 peptide is the latest form of agriline (botox in a bottle) that basically stops your skin retaining the shape when you wrinkle your face. Dump that into serum too after reconstituting.

Tretinoin remains king, however.

As with your hairline, prevention is better than the cure. Start now, and you'll be fine. A good deal should be reversible.

 

[dantes]

Did you take accutane? The only AAS users I have known first hand who appeared to have aged at an extremely accelerated rate are those who tpok accutane. For example Sam Suleck looks like he aged10yrs in 2 and obviously is using it or did use accutane

 

[UberLOL]

Did you take accutane? The only AAS users I have known first hand who appeared to have aged at an extremely accelerated rate are those who tpok accutane. For example Sam Suleck looks like he aged10yrs in 2 and obviously is using it or did use accutane

I used accutane. I don't think that's true. Accutane significantly upregulates collagen synthesis in skin. Low-dose accutane is used as an anti-aging, same mechanism of action why tretinoin is anti-aging, just oral. It is harsh on the liver and prescribed at too high-doses and dries out the skin, but it wont age the skin.

 

[deadmanwalking]

Did you take accutane? The only AAS users I have known first hand who appeared to have aged at an extremely accelerated rate are those who tpok accutane. For example Sam Suleck looks like he aged10yrs in 2 and obviously is using it or did use accutane

I don’t think it was accutane that aged him, more so the (probably) high doses and diet full of sugar or junk.

 

[UberLOL]

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I don’t think it was accutane that aged him, more so the (probably) high doses and diet full of sugar or junk.

that'll do it, ashtray faces all round

 

[dantes]

I don’t think it was accutane that aged him, more so the (probably) high doses and diet full of sugar or junk.

I suspect it would be a combination. I think the accutane often causes issues as guys continue to take to orals while taking it and they get very toxic I think if you take it correctly you can avoid the issues but most don’t.

 

[UberLOL]

I suspect it would be a combination. I think the accutane often causes issues as guys continue to take to orals while taking it and they get very toxic I think if you take it correctly you can avoid the issues but most don’t.

Agreed. Also, the dosages prescribed by doctors are absurdly high, just a very small dose like 10-20mg controls acne. The reason they do this is research shows you need to hit a certain total lifetime dose to get permanent shrinkage of pores/reduction in acne, so they prefer to cycle short and hard and manage sides. Also they get faster patient turnover and more $$$

 

[BarneyRoss]

GHK-CU