Can i get steroids from my doctor

There are also milder changes like testicular shrinkage and acne. You can get high cholesterol, high blood pressure. He has no doubt such education is important, as he believes steroid use is more widespread than people may think — even among his own patient population.

Login to comment. Dr Peter J Strickland. The major problem in general practice is not illicit anabolic steroid use, but rather being able to treat males with a known testosterone deficiency both clinically and biochemically without having to send the patients to specialists to confirm the findings. There is absolute bias here in the PBS availability of testosterone for males compared to treating oestrogen and progesterone deficiency for females, and really a form of discrimination against GPs and their male patients.

Thanks for your query, Iain. It has useful knowledge to guide doctors. There are not specific resources for GPs, but we are working on some education and eventually some simple tools for GPs to use.

Hopefully, we might have a draft document by the end of this year if not sooner. Thank you. Dr Matthew A Stark. I have spoken with people who use steroids and resemble the patients the author describes. A common fear is that any admission of use to a doctor becomes part of the patient's medical records. That this will become accessible to insurance companies and come back to eventually haunt the patient is part of that fear. Absent a patient admission, there can be certain markers in blood work that will tell the story anyway.

That is what they are going on -- and, of course, surgeries and this and that. Who was the guy just caught at the airport with them? Sylvester Stallone. I'm sure he had a prescription for it.

It is not illegal with a prescription. Out here, it is huge. They're making millions with it. Human growth hormone is known right now with certain mixtures to be [beneficial].

There's no hiding from that. That is just a fact. There hasn't been any human testing for long term to verify that, but so far -- especially in the case of human growth [hormone] -- they say you can use that indefinitely. We actually produce it.

And when you go through puberty, you lose about 60 percent of it. So what we want to do is maintain that level of percent during life span. The older you get, the more human growth hormone you actually lose in the body, so you want to maintain it. He can be reached at michaeljfish gmail. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Fish: Jose Canseco's online pharmacy primer.

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What problems can using illegal anabolic steroids cause? In men, anabolic steroids can: Reduce sperm count. Shrink the testicles. Cause you not to be able to father children.

Enlarge the breasts. In women, anabolic steroids can: Increase body hair. Make skin rough. Decrease breast size. Enlarge the clitoris. Deepen the voice. In both men and women, anabolic steroids can cause: High blood pressure, heart attack, or stroke.

Liver disease and possibly liver cancer. The chance of these problems is higher when steroids are taken as a pill. Oily skin, acne, and male-pattern hair loss. Skin infections that can become severe if the drug was tainted with bacteria. Irritability, rage, aggression, violence, uncontrolled high energy mania , false beliefs delusions , and substance use disorder. How is anabolic steroid misuse identified? How is it treated?

Doctors usually advise: Treatment in a program that includes medicines for withdrawal symptoms and other health problems.