Do you ever wish you never used steroids?

[FrancisK]

Hindsight is 20/20 obviously and I’m probably only saying this now because I’m comfortable with my body now, back when I started I definitely wasn’t. But after the accelerated hairloss, adult backne, weird unnatural libido, possibly huge underlying health problems and having to jab myself with a needle for the rest of my life if I want to feel like a man I regret it sometimes even though I like the way I look and feel.....sometimes.

I wish I hadn’t listened to my dumb friend who I got it from who gets his advice from me now. If I knew then what I know now I would have just used GH and and a few other non steroid things that I’ve learned about since. Funny that was my original plan and he talked me out of it and convinced me to use steroids with all his bro science expertise.

I haven’t even been using for very long, about 5 years started when I was 30 but I know I can’t ever come off now and if I do I will feel like shit so it bothers me sometimes.

How about you guys, any guys been on for decades and don’t regret it?

 

[Rogue]

Everybody is a little different, but you can come off at your age and "normalize".
It will take a little time but if thats what you want, you can.

 

[lntense]

The majority of humans want “what they can’t have”, and you can’t have being natural again so of course you want it.



Always weigh out the positives and negatives. I would say for myself the positives in the last 8-9 years have far outweighed the negatives.

I wouldn’t go back. A pin or two a week and shrunken nuts are the least of my worries. Keeps me overall more healthy, driven, I could go on and on.

 

[pins]

I'm 62 years old and been training and juicing for over half of my life.
Training,eating right,resting,and juicing is what I do.I know of no other life style! This is what I do!!!!

 

[Beti ona]

I never took the step because I hate needles, and I would hate to have a high libido and simian behavior.

I am also of the mentality of all or nothing, so consider that I did not have the genetics or the means to use in a rational-justified way everything under the sun in the necessary quantities. I'm obsessive and extreme, so I would probably have died quite quickly.

 

[bad rad]

I don't regret using them. I regret they way I used them since it was all made up internet crap. If I started and cycled the way Emeric does I think I would have made slower but better quality changes. PCT always led to issues for me.

 

[lookslikesausage]

I don't regret using them. I regret they way I used them since it was all made up internet crap. If I started and cycled the way Emeric does I think I would have made slower but better quality changes. PCT always led to issues for me.

i too suffered greatly during PCTs. it was for this reason that i decided to stop using for awhile. that was about 15 years ago and i haven't used anything since. i don't regret using them. I loved them. i still miss them and not a day goes by that i don't think about them in some way. I certainly do not miss the ups and the downs mentally or losing large amounts of weight and strength and how frustrating that could be. I DO miss how my body felt (and looked). As anyone with half a brain knows, it's night and day going from an enhanced body to a natural one and once you have a taste, it's not so easy to go back.

 

[TripppleP]

OP - you can still come off if you wanted. Plenty of people on hear have after years of using. I recall a member talking about doing cycles, then try and once he came off he felt great. Look at Dorian Yates now.

 

[mytreefiddy]

I never took the step because I hate needles,

That shit cracks me up...... who does??? ive never heard anybody say 'man, I LOVE needles"...LOL

I dont regret using....just my approach early on... doing shit incorrectly.. when youre young..... , training, nutrition sleep all take a back seat to pussy.... you just wanna look good to get laid ...lol....

but im kinda glad i got into this game late..... if i would have been blasting since my early 20s id probably be dead.... ignorance is bliss....i thought doing a cycle was doing 1 shot a week for 10 weeks... i didnt start using "heavier" til i was in my 40s..... actually once i joined this site.....i started reading and researching (and lurking here) i started getting more aggressive with my protocols.. learned TONS here.

 

[slesh]

Never regretted it a day in my life. The only issue in almost 15 years was getting gyno back in the day when I didn't know about AI's and then a few years ago I had a bad run with Tren that made me a little mental for a few months where I didn't do my job 100% at work.

Thank god I was in a financial position to have my gyno removed 10 years ago and the work I missed during those few months I've more than made up for. Put that against 15 years of fun transforming and experimenting on my body and building a certain level of social and workplace confidence; worth every penny and all the risks.

I get basic blood work done every 8-12 weeks and more detailed ala cholesterol, thyroid, etc twice a year. Comes back nearly perfect every time.

I'm a Jewish endomorph with terrible genetics. I never stood a chance without the help of AAS.

 

[VaginaBoob89]

I wish I'd have started earlier, used less tren, and used more testosterone. But then again I'm only 30 years old with clinical hypotension (low blood pressure) and had some obvious hypogonadism as a young man. Started at 24 with idiot gh15 advice kind of cycles.

 

[kreativsniks]

Sometimes on a particulary low day, when I open my 'medicine box' and take a look --> all these damn pills, vials, blisters, needles etc.. so much management for such a temporary feeling/look.. Inject this, inject that, take this pill for e2, that pill for BP, this for ED, that for Prolactin.. etc.. When the fk life changed and now I need all this to be... normal? happy?
Then.. on a good day, I open the same box and have a nice, wide grin.. he he he, so I'm going to have a big sex evening planned with my S.O? Hehe, let's pop some cialis.. maybe some proviron too? Then there are pin days, i love them for the most part, when ya inject some test and know - while i go on about my day, this manly hormone is slowly doin its job..
Overall, i don't regret starting all this. 3 years ago I thought I'm gonna just try this testosterone for a couple of months and thats it. fast forward 3 years and I'm BnC, have pretty good knowledge regarding human endocrine system and hormones and how they interact together. It all started with a typical "muslcles for girls" attitude but morphed into full blown hobby which is now, well, a lifestyle choice..

 

[Bio]

NO RAGRETS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbvkbXWStog

 

[epoxy]

I go back and forth, mostly based on the idea of how much money I've spent on this "hobby" over the last decade - especially since I've never competed or planned to.

In the end, I justify it by telling myself (and this may just be me lying to myself) - that if I hadn't spent it on this, I would've found something else. Everyone has a money pit hobby, this one is purely vanity, but plenty of people do similar things - albeit one could say they are less of a health hazzard - whether it be the guys that spend all their money tuning their cars, collecting various things to let them sit on a shelf, having a leather jacket or designer shoe collection blah blah blah the list goes on.

 

[Dens228]

I've never run a heavy cycle, a gram is about as high as I've gone, most of the time I go up to about 600, my first cycle was in my mid 30's.
I wish I started sooner and have no regrets.

 

[Smack]

I never took the step because I hate needles, and I would hate to have a high libido and simian behavior.

Simian behavior from taking steroids...

You have been on this board for over a year and you are what? The king of the simians or something. You're talking down to almost everyone here... What a stupid comment.

 

[Smack]

I'm 62 years old and been training and juicing for over half of my life.
Training,eating right,resting,and juicing is what I do.I know of no other life style! This is what I do!!!!

You dont think the strict BB lifestyle has led you to miss out on things?

Personally I do. I started working out/eating religiously when I was 18 to about 24 and since have relaxed quite a bit.

I'm much happier and enjoy life more. But to each his own, what ever makes you happy ettc

 

[emeric delczeg]

I don't regret using them. I regret they way I used them since it was all made up internet crap. If I started and cycled the way Emeric does I think I would have made slower but better quality changes. PCT always led to issues for me.

Smart decision.

 

[Bleed]

No. I do wish hormones werent treated like nuclear weapons.

 

[buck]

I do not regret any of the choices I have made throughout my life. They all brought me to where I am and I am content enough with myself. Wishing is a waste of time and energy. I could wish that I did things different but that doesn't mean I would have got the result that I dreamed I would have. The only real thing that matters is where I am now and what choices I plan to make for my future.