Need sum advice guys, Strep throat & steroids

[TooPowerful4u]

Ok so i just beat a 104 fever for past 2 days to find out now i have a sore throat and its strep. I gotta start antiboitics tomorrow. Is that in any way gonna interfere with my cycle (250sust EOD) or will the cycle hurt the effectiveness of the antibiotics? Its probably gonna be penicillin or amoxicillin.

Im pissed i lost almost 10lbs already in 3days. Lot of its water, but im SURE some of it was muscle.

 

[Dad]

Not to worry...

You have two completely different drugs there, with different pathways, and mechanisms of action.

One is an antibiotic that will target only the Streptococcus, and the other is a hormone that works at the level of the muscle cell nucleus to "turn on" genes that transcribe new structural proteins. They have no common pathways nor competitive actions upon each other.

I would wait until yuor strep is resolved, and weight back to normal before pushing it much in the gym. The fever raises your metabolic rate, so it's possible you lost a LITTLE muscle, especially if your food intake was reduced at the same time, but you're right that the majority of the 10 lbs, is water.

Just relax far a week or so, eat, drink as much water as you can force down, raise your protein up 10-15% over what you usually eat, and you'll be great.

Hope you're feeling better soon!

 

[TooPowerful4u]

Thanx bro. No way im raising my protein, it was 350g, im lucky to get down 2 meals a day. This sux but ur right, gotta stay outta the gym til its resolved.

 

[big4nuthin]

Finally an answer that makes sense!

I have asked this question before on other boards and got a slew of different answers with most of them leading me to believe that antibiotics do lessen the potency of AAS. How about OTC cold medicines?

You have two completely different drugs there, with different pathways, and mechanisms of action.

One is an antibiotic that will target only the Streptococcus, and the other is a hormone that works at the level of the muscle cell nucleus to "turn on" genes that transcribe new structural proteins. They have no common pathways nor competitive actions upon each other.

I would wait until yuor strep is resolved, and weight back to normal before pushing it much in the gym. The fever raises your metabolic rate, so it's possible you lost a LITTLE muscle, especially if your food intake was reduced at the same time, but you're right that the majority of the 10 lbs, is water.

Just relax far a week or so, eat, drink as much water as you can force down, raise your protein up 10-15% over what you usually eat, and you'll be great.

Hope you're feeling better soon!