Who's fooling whom?

[alfresco]

Are you fooling your doctor or fooling yourself?

A posting I made in another thread and a "tip of the hat"
reply from Paul Bunyan (thanks PB) got me to thinking
about something.

If you can afford the drugs you can afford a doctor,
or a professional to prescribe blood tests and equally,
somebody knowledgeable to interpret them. In my
opinion, you should not have one without the other.

What I just I can't seem to understand is why
people try and fool their doctors by pushing out
their test dates and lowering their dosages in order
to create a artificially low test levels?

Clearly I can understand some people wanting to
have all testosterone (for instance) you can get your
hands on provided you are doing no harm. And as I have
said before on here, that is just a matter of finding a
good doctor to work with you.

I would think that you would really like to know what
is going on in your body most of the time, not just
for that short period of time prior to getting a blood test.

Why guess when you can know?

What if you are disguising the harm you are doing your
body at test time by doing larger doses of steroids
most of the time, while being "healthy" only prior to
getting your blood tested?

Far be it from me to tell people what to do but . . .
in my opinion, unless you have phenomenal potential
for building muscular mass (and you would know this by
now) and were planning on competing in bodybuilding at
a advanced level, why take the chance of potentially
screwing up your body with these clinically unknown
combinations of AAS just so you can look good mowing
the lawn. Like many others here have repeatedly said,
you can make fantastic progress if you do the correct
things with your diet and training. And with a little bit of
testosterone, that just makes it all that much better.

Now, don't get me wrong; I think all anabolic steroids should
be legal. I think they can and should be used responsibly.
But when the effects of abuse that appear so frequently place a
burden on the health care system of society, that's when
I have a problem. And when your problem becomes my problem,
I'm not a happy man.

I have no way of knowing, but I would be willing to bet
that most top pros know exactly what "all" there blood levels
are and probably know more about their blood and AAS's
than most of the doctors passing themselves off as doctors.
Their job is bodybuilding, they better know it and
not guess about it, because the consequences could
be devastating (losing, and hence no job) and long term
health problems.

Bodybuilding, like life, is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

[oldfella]

Great post! And about time too!

Well done!

 

[maldorf]

Great post! Very well put. We cannot assume that using supraphysiological doses does not put you at risk for dangerous side effects. One should be tested while taking the heaviest dose they would use.

 

[AWN2004]

This sport is far from healthy. Its unfortunate that we have to push ourselves to such extremes. Goals are good to have and having a passion for something is improtant but at the cost of your health? Being real with yourself and taking responsibility for your actions is important. In the long run there will be some kind of health problem from all of this. It may be joint problems, increased liver enzymes, or arteriosclerosis. You just never know. I'm not in a position to tell anyone what is right for them, only what is right for me. I hope that every person who ventures into this sport to can remain clear headed and make the right choice when faced with important decisions.

 

[alecaf]

Great post!

 

[Pawwn]

Are you fooling your doctor or fooling yourself?

A posting I made in another thread and a "tip of the hat"
reply from Paul Bunyan (thanks PB) got me to thinking
about something.

If you can afford the drugs you can afford a doctor,
or a professional to prescribe blood tests and equally,
somebody knowledgeable to interpret them. In my
opinion, you should not have one without the other.

What I just I can't seem to understand is why
people try and fool their doctors by pushing out
their test dates and lowering their dosages in order
to create a artificially low test levels?

Clearly I can understand some people wanting to
have all testosterone (for instance) you can get your
hands on provided you are doing no harm. And as I have
said before on here, that is just a matter of finding a
good doctor to work with you.

I would think that you would really like to know what
is going on in your body most of the time, not just
for that short period of time prior to getting a blood test.

Why guess when you can know?

What if you are disguising the harm you are doing your
body at test time by doing larger doses of steroids
most of the time, while being "healthy" only prior to
getting your blood tested?

Far be it from me to tell people what to do but . . .
in my opinion, unless you have phenomenal potential
for building muscular mass (and you would know this by
now) and were planning on competing in bodybuilding at
a advanced level, why take the chance of potentially
screwing up your body with these clinically unknown
combinations of AAS just so you can look good mowing
the lawn. Like many others here have repeatedly said,
you can make fantastic progress if you do the correct
things with your diet and training. And with a little bit of
testosterone, that just makes it all that much better.

Now, don't get me wrong; I think all anabolic steroids should
be legal. I think they can and should be used responsibly.
But when the effects of abuse that appear so frequently place a
burden on the health care system of society, that's when
I have a problem. And when your problem becomes my problem,
I'm not a happy man.

I have no way of knowing, but I would be willing to bet
that most top pros know exactly what "all" there blood levels
are and probably know more about their blood and AAS's
than most of the doctors passing themselves off as doctors.
Their job is bodybuilding, they better know it and
not guess about it, because the consequences could
be devastating (losing, and hence no job) and long term
health problems.

Bodybuilding, like life, is a marathon, not a sprint.

Except the genetically gifted win the lotto from time to time. (aka those with more receptors to make drugs work better )