By Doug Dreier, President, Muscle Evolution USA
Steroid.com Moderator
This month in Esquire magazine there is an article by Craig Davidson doing doing his first cycle of steroids… As most members at Steroid.com already know the media tends to fabricate horror stories about steroid side effects…
This article soundly falls into that category.
In this article, the user did a cycle that consisted of Dianabol, Testosterone cyponiate and Equipoise (not too bad of a cycle, actually…but a bit much for a first timer). At steroid.com, a typical recommendation for a first cycle is about half as much gear (mgs/wk), and only one compound typically. But hey…what do we know?
Unfortunately, the author claims he had just about every side effect possible (hairloss, enlarged prostate , gyno etc…). If he would have taken the time to research the proper information on www.steroid.com the sides he experienced could have probably (easily) been avoided. Naturally, while on his cycle he didn’t get any blood work done, or do any of the things we recommend for a cycle on steroid.com. And as I already told you, he did more than double the amount we’d typically suggest.
From the start of his steroid use, nothing was properly planned out.
His dietary goal was to eat 25 cans of tuna daily…everybody eats like this to get enough protein, don’t they? He was only able to consume 20 cans in a day (20 cans, is he serious)? There’s this new invention called protein shakes…he should look into that. I don’t think they come in “tuna flavor” unfortunately.
And that’s not all…there were numerous other mistakes he made throughout the article.
For example, on his first injections, he claims the needle went in very easily, and the injection went smoothly but when he removed the needle blood shot across the room. He also claimed to aspirate - but obviously didn’t. If he had properly aspirated, blood would have filled the syringe, and he would not have gone through with the injection. It would not have “shot halfway across the room” when he pulled the needle out if blood hadn’t already filled the syringe upon aspiration.
Duh. His story…to say the least…is nearly impossible. How can you aspirate properly and yet after the injection have a blood fountain shooting across the room? It doesn’t make any medical sense. Not that I’m calling him a liar – just saying…that this is almost medically impossible to have been true.
The author later claims that a cycle of 11mls would require 11 injections per week. Hello…a syringe holds 3mls typically. This is a basic question that is answered all the time on steroid.com. You can shoot 11mls in a week with far less than 11 injections. Again, he needed to do more research.
And what about his claim that he developed an abscess (was the injection done improperly? Was the gear dirty?) he later decided to drain himself …aka pulling a Greg Valentino. This is not the move of someone who had done their research.
I believe that had he simply used an aromatase inhibitor & a DHT blocker almost all the sides he complained about could have been negated. He could have done a bunch of things to avoid side effects…the first being to do some real research.
Excuse me, but don’t we always tell people to keep those on hand? Oh…right we do….but he didn’t come to us for info, did he?
Clearly not.
He also claimed he had all kinds of health issues but did not go to the Dr, instead self diagnosed. The author states he was peeing 15 times a day. That should have the Dr. on the phone immediately. Instead he figured he should use “manual relief” to ease the prostate pain at least 4 times a day. Is this guy for real, & this was published? I’m surprised he didn’t claim that he went blind from all of that hand-action, and then blame that on the steroids too!
Because of his new size he couldn’t scratch his back. He had to use a fork, he couldn’t reach way down his back. I actually can believe this one is true…but…would you say this guy has serious problems?
After all this, he did make good gains increasing his weight by 30 pounds. He reported that his strength went through the roof. He was throwing weights around like a madman. Predictably, his elation with this progress was short lived. After looking into a mirror he was devastated. Things got worse when he went back to the gym. Within a month, he no longer could bench press heavy weights & could barely get the weights off his chest.
He then threw out all the tuna cans & protein powders & ordered pepperoni pizza with double cheese & chased it down with a two liter of Pepsi. –
Dumb Ass - all that work for nothing because he didn’t plan a post cycle. PCT wasn’t ever mentioned in the article. I guess he figured just eat, train & stick needles into himself & he would look like a bodybuilder.
If he had come to us for advice instead, he’d have kept his gains and not run into medical problems. Then again…his story would probably not have been published either.
