Symptoms of Anabolic Steroid Use

Anabolic steroids are steroids which relates closely to testosterones of males. Anabolic steroids are also known as Anabolic Androgenic steroids. These anabolic steroids are legal steroids which cannot be sold without prescription of a doctor. But bodybuilders or weight lifters illegally use them for the purpose of enhancing their performance and increasing their muscle mass as well. Its usage is completely banned in almost all sporting organizations and when any player is tested positive for the usage of Anabolic steroids, then there are severe punishments for them. Although they are legal steroids but they are easily available in black markets.

By using anabolic steroids several advantaged can be achieved but on the other hand there are several side effects also associated to it as well. Anyone using steroids do not tells openly that he or she is using steroids but there are some symptoms which can tell that steroids are being used. Other way of checking for steroid usage is with the help of blood or urine test. These tests are sort of checking tool for players, for whom using any type of steroids is banned. But there are few visible symptoms which speak for themselves about steroid usage.

There are two major types of symptoms which can be observed in Steroid users. These symptoms are as following:

1. Physical Symptoms
2. Personality and Psychiatric Symptoms

Physical Symptoms

These are type of symptoms which cannot be easily identified by others. These symptoms include the following:

• Having a feeling of grease in the hair or skin being oily.
• Appearance of acne, red or purple in color on the back or shoulders.
• Abnormal development of tissues of breast especially in males. This phenomenon is known as Gynocomastia.
• Breath of the person is smelly and this remains for long time.
• Hair can become very thin and you can also have male pattern baldness as well.
• Increased growth of hair on body parts other than the head.
• While taking shower, combing or brushing, hairs are lost on a continuous basis.
• Skin gets a yellow color which gives a symptom of liver problem as well.
• Skin can also get infected as cysts can be formed on the skin at different body parts.
• Hunger can be at extreme height or there could be perhaps no hunger at all.
• Chances of injuring your muscles are increases and there is fair chance of pain in joints.
• Sleeping routine gets disturbed. Either there is no sleep or you sleep a lot.
• There is lot of sweating especially at night.
• One can tremble, feel of nausea and dizziness can also be observed.
• Weight gets increases in a matter of no time.
• Muscles can also be developed quickly.
• One can get lethargic or can be super active as well.
• Apart from these symptoms there could be some side effects as well.

Personality and Psychiatric Symptoms

Some of the symptoms associated with personality and psyche of a person are as following:

When you go to the doctor and the doctor has prescribed you with some sort of anabolic steroids, make sure that you have told the doctor about your medical history. You should tell the doctor about following things:

Sale and purchase of anabolic steroids are banned and can only be bought from the pharmacist on receipt of a prescription. Many of the athletic and bodybuilding competitions now have laid out complex and sophisticated methods of detecting drugs and anabolic steroids in the blood which if found positive, heavy fines and suspensions need to be dealt with. Even when such strict bans are associated with the use of anabolic steroids, still they are so commonly available everywhere round the world including the internet where it is sold and purchased illegally by as young as high school students.

• If you have any kind of allergy from usage of anabolic steroids or from any other food.
• If you are pregnant. Because during pregnancy no type of steroids should be used.
• If you are breastfeeding.
• If you are having some other abnormalities like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart diseases or enlarged prostate etc.

There are many diseases or illnesses for which steroids are prescribed but that differs from person to person. Because each and every person has got their own problems and after carefully diagnosing those problems doctor advices the person according to the body requirement and also doctor would be careful that it would not harm any other body part and also they do not cause severe side effects. Some of the common diseases for which anabolic steroids are prescribed are as following:

• In some cases of Anemia.
• In treatment of some types of breast cancer.
• If patient has lost quite a bit of weight after some serious injury or illness, then anabolic steroids are prescribed for the purpose of putting some weight.
• When arms, legs, face, sexual organs or other body parts start swelling due to a hereditary disease of angioedema, anabolic steroids are prescribed.

Some of the common legal anabolic steroids which are prescribed in Canada and US are Oxnadrolone in the tablet form, oxymetholone in tablet form, Stanozolol in oral form, Nandrolone Decanoate in the form of injections.

• Moods get uncertain as they can swing in no time.
• A person can get more aggressive.
• Level of irritation is also increased.
• Person becomes abusive and do not respects others.
• Person can become a poor decision maker.
• Person tries to hide things from others and can develop habit of lying to others.
• Often persons can be depressed.
• Feeling of hallucinations can occur.

Feeling of Paranoia can also be occurred in which a sense of fear is developed in the person.