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Awhile back I watched a documentary on the use of steroids in America called Bigger, Stronger, Faster. It seemed to look at steroids not from the angle of a horrid poison no American would touch with a 20 foot pole, but from the angle that it's simply a drug to treat patients with muscle atrophy and enhance performance for athletes which, like any drug, has possible side effects. Then I came upon http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20050316/why-steroids-are-bad-for-you" . I suppose the scariest part of the article was supposed to be the symptoms (here are the lower ones suffered by both men and women):
* Get acne
* Have an oily scalp and skin
* Get yellowing of the skin (jaundice)
* Become bald
* Have tendon rupture
* Have heart attacks
* Have an enlarged heart
* Develop significant risk of liver disease and liver cancer
* Have high levels of "bad" cholesterol
* Have mood swings
* Fly into rages
* Suffer delusions
These don't sound very appealing to me -- but if you listen to the quick, low voice at the end of a television commercials promoting a new drug, or do research on the internet, you will find symptoms just as or much more appalling for virtually all drugs: and they're prescribed to millions of people! For instance, here are the possible symptoms for taking too much Vitamin C:
* Severe back pain
* Jaundice
* Itchy skin (prurutis)
* Tender mass in left upper abdomen (splenomegaly)
* Fever
* Abdominal pain
* Dizziness
* Vomiting
* Nausea
* Headache
* Facial flushing
* Dental cavities (caries)
* Decreased urine output
So what gives? Why are steroids looked upon as being so spine-curlingly horrible? Obviously if they have such a bad reputation I must be missing something vital, so hopefully someone here can set me straight. Thanks!
* Get acne
* Have an oily scalp and skin
* Get yellowing of the skin (jaundice)
* Become bald
* Have tendon rupture
* Have heart attacks
* Have an enlarged heart
* Develop significant risk of liver disease and liver cancer
* Have high levels of "bad" cholesterol
* Have mood swings
* Fly into rages
* Suffer delusions
These don't sound very appealing to me -- but if you listen to the quick, low voice at the end of a television commercials promoting a new drug, or do research on the internet, you will find symptoms just as or much more appalling for virtually all drugs: and they're prescribed to millions of people! For instance, here are the possible symptoms for taking too much Vitamin C:
* Severe back pain
* Jaundice
* Itchy skin (prurutis)
* Tender mass in left upper abdomen (splenomegaly)
* Fever
* Abdominal pain
* Dizziness
* Vomiting
* Nausea
* Headache
* Facial flushing
* Dental cavities (caries)
* Decreased urine output
So what gives? Why are steroids looked upon as being so spine-curlingly horrible? Obviously if they have such a bad reputation I must be missing something vital, so hopefully someone here can set me straight. Thanks!
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