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Steroids And Ptsd

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Ejehe

Hello All,

I am writing because I want the truth and to see if anyone has wanted to accomplish what I have accomplished. I think I may have high functioning autism. I also have ptsd, anxiety, and panic attacks but haven't in a long while. I have taken up weight lifting for the last 8 months or so. I have not adopted a right eating regime but have a workout routine that is vigorous. This is my new years resolution.

I want to try steroids but do not want roid rage. I have done research on Anavar and it has quick results and you get to keep the results for a long while. I just want to know if anyone that has tried it with my side effects that they/me have received and what were the results and what worked for them?

I am very goal oriented and have great dreams and aspirations. They only that can stop me is death is itself.

Thanks,
Joe
 
An Anavar-only cycle is not good. It's appealing because you don't have to inject. But it suppresses your natural testosterone production and can cause liver damage. An Anavar-only cycle sounds very 1980s :) Don't do it!

If you determine you're ready for a steroid cycle, your first cycle should be testosterone only. You will need an aromatase inhibitor on hand to combat estrogen, and you also need to have meds on hand to restart your natural testosterone production, known as post-cycle therapy (PCT).

I have done research on Anavar and it has quick results and you get to keep the results for a long while.

This is "bro-science." You need better sources of information. I don't know if linking to other forums is allowed here, but there's so much bad information out there, you really need to do some research before doing something as drastic as screwing with your hormones.

But the bottom line is, your diet is not in check! Physical fitness is a marathon, not a sprint. It will take time to build the body you want, with or without steroids. As much as I wish they did, steroids do not make up for poor diet or lack of training routine.

Please work on your diet and training. When you're getting the results you want, steroids may be able to accelerate them. But adding steroids to a program that gets 0 results will still yield 0 results.

Please ask other questions. I'm sure you have em!
 
Have you been successful in getting results from your 8 months' lifting? After my first 8 months you could barely tell a difference (I started skinny as a twig) so don't feel bad if the answer's no. It just means there's a piece of the (kinda complicated) puzzle that you haven't found yet. But you'll get there.

Do you know your weight and approx. body-fat percentage? BF% is very relevant to steroids.

Cheers.
 
An Anavar-only cycle is not good. It's appealing because you don't have to inject. But it suppresses your natural testos...


Understandable! I know how to diet with chicken and fish! That is the plan for 2017! I have lost tremendous amount of weight doing so. I want to eat right and cycle right. As far as post-cycle therapy I know I have to use clomid or
 
Have you been successful in getting results from your 8 months' lifting? After my first 8 months you could barely tell...

Thanks brother! I am an endomorph, I can easily gain muscle but gain fat at the same time, it sucks! I have gain probably like 15 to 25 pounds! No joke! Not sure about my fat ratio. I am about 225! I am ready to cycle. I heard test is the best way to go for your first time around. Low dosage. My wife thinks right now that I am on roids.
 
My first cycle was 250 mg test-E E3D. Some people think that starting lower than 500mg/week is sensible, but I don't think so. The risks don't really decrease as you go lower, but the benefits certainly do.

I started with Arimidex but it's such a pain to dose consistently it's not worth the cost savings. Aromasin is the way to go. You gotta get blood work to check your estrogen levels. Apparently I aromatize a lot despite low BF%. Had to increase my (already generous) AI usage.

From your description I'm guessing you probably have >20%BF. This isn't necessarily bad, but it does mean you need to take your bloodwork and AI even more seriously. Don't cut corners!

Gaining 15-25 pounds in 8 weeks, even WITH steroids, a lot of that will be fat. It might be a good idea to reduce calories a little bit more, still letting you build muscle but not giving you so much surplus energy that must be stored as fat.

I've found the "steroids" forum on reddit to be a very good resource. Remember to be skeptical and do your research.
 
My first cycle was 250 mg test-E E3D. Some people think that starting lower than 500mg/week is sensible, but I don't thin...

Thanks! I would really like to talk to you private if I can? Thanks for the info on the anti-estrogen. I will check out my blood before doing so. My gain are from 8 months or so. I will check it out.
 
Straight up bad idea.

Self-medication is a double-edged sword. Very often it can go wrong. Steroids can be flagrantly misused but they can also be used quite responsibly. You might possibly have some preconceptions that are based more in pop culture than science.

Assuming @Ejehe and @Sawi are the same person, I don't know how he moved so quickly from a harmful Anavar cycle to a potentially responsible testosterone cycle, and his first post really made it sound like he wasn't ready. Please for god's sake do your research.

However, the assumption that testosterone compounds PTSD and other mental disorders is wrong. Having sufficient testosterone (as well as a correct amount of estrogen, verified by bloodwork) is vital to mental function. PTSD often results in low testosterone, and TRT may be part of medical treatment. Joe Rogan Podcast #574 is an excruciatingly long interview including a doctor and his combat-PTSD patient on low-dose TRT. Some patients report that TRT made productive psychotherapy for PTSD possible.

You may wish to request bloodwork from your primary doctor, a urologist, or a TRT specialist. While medical professionals aren't going to advocate supraphysiological doses, the principles and safeguards are pretty much the same regardless of dosage. If you get bloodwork and your test levels are below 400, your low levels are quite possibly exacerbating your mental conditions. If you find a doctor who prescribes, you gain his or her expertise and legality.

You're welcome to contact me directly, but I'd prefer you do as much research as you can on your own. Contact me here: Link Removed

Be safe and sane.
 
You don't want roid-rage? I don't want wrinkles. Wanting has nothing to do with it. Extreme irritability to uncontrollable aggression is a FACT with anabolic steroids. It's a known side effect that happens to very nearly everyone who takes them. As are other cognitive and emotional changes in the brain that the user is largely unaware of, or is willfully ignorant of. To the point that even if they're filming themselves monthly to track for changes, and there is an abrupt and noticeable change? Without some incredibly solid boundaries and personal integrity, what they like is the "new" powerful (asshole) them, not the old weakling (nice) them. It's a horrifyingly predictable cycle. The more of an asshole someone becomes, the more they enjoy being an asshole. I was an athlete. At the level I competed in steroids were a well known quantity, because to move onto the next level they were very nearly required. It's not a question of if you'll have serious cognitive and emotional side effects, it's a question of which ones you will get, at what level, and what the consequences of them will be. Including jail and death and total personality change. People don't get happy on anas. They get abusive at worst, and assholish at best. It's like drinking and driving to think that you'll be "fine" / it won't happen to you, what happens to everyone else, just because you want to be. But rage isn't the only cognitive & emotional side effect. There's also paranoia, delusions, impaired judgement, increased risk of suicide, amongst others. Hormones are no f*cking joke. The don't just eat your self control, they completely alter it. ANY of these sound like a good combo with PTSD? :O_o:

And, of course, that's all aside from the serious health risks. It blows my mind people care about raisin sized testicles & baldness when if those things are happening? Your liver and kidneys and heart are being brutalized. Lemme tell ya how much fun it is having a heart attack from the strain of walking 10 feet, or to have to have someone else wipe your ass for you, and change out your catheter, because getting out of bed is too exhausting.

There's also the fact that their illegal. Which means that there is a serious risk in procurement. Not in just getting arrested and spending the next 5-10 years in prison, but also quality control, which will drastically alter both the effects & side effects, as well as how fast your body gets chewed up and spit out.

But mostly? You aren't serious. You have unmanaged PTSD. Your diet sucks, -while you've been training- so you've undoubtedly already got some serious health problems going on (bone loss & organ damage). Because your diet doesn't meet your physical needs you have no damn idea what your body is actually CAPABLE of, given the right support, nor what it's patterns are. You are half assing this, and want a short cut. Which means that you will undoubtedly also half ass the short cut. Which means the side effects will rip you a new asshole and your body will fall apart in far less time than someone who spent the time & sweat & hard work of fine tuning their body to its absolute best capacity, and learned all of it's cycles and patterns, and then went as responsibly as they could into a medically monitored steroid cycle. (Yes, there are doctors who will design & implement & monitor these very dangerous & high risk drugs).

All I see here is self harm & stupidity. No different from an anorexic snorting meth to lose weight. AKA bad idea.
 
Why does your wife already think you are on roids?

Are you in treatment for the PTSD? If so, are the treating professionals aware of your desire to self medicate?

PTSD does not decrease testosterone. There is no evidence of this claim. Case in point: my T level shot through the roof when PTSD symptoms hit.

Is your wife ok with steroid induced impotence and likely heart problems? Steroids And Their Harmful Side Effects

I took steroids for three days and it caused a blood vessel in my eye to burst and I can no longer see anything in that eye anymore.

Not to mention the expected and likely dramatic increase in PTSD symptoms. Stressed now? Steroids are going to multiply that. Plus, all this attention to chase anpossibky deadly solution is pulling you away from other work that will likely help you become the better and stronger person you want to be through real excercise and therapy.

You are running from the real problems which can't be solved by drug use. Stop now while you can. It will only get harder once you start. Steroid withdrawal happens either through death or utter misery.
 
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