Is there a safe way to use steroids?

Some would consider the term “safe steroid use” to be a complete oxymoron. There is a mountain of conjecture regarding the true nature of dangerous side effects that accompany steroid use but one thing is certain beyond a doubt: the potential risk for irreversible damage as a result of steroid abuse is not something to be trifled with. It better to be safe than sorry and education oneself about the potential pitfalls of steroid use is the only way to insulate your body against the ravage of these drugs.

It has been suggested by a number of sources that detrimental steroid effects are really predicated on the dose and duration of use, instead of an all or nothing approach that automatically equates the fact that steroids are present in the body with a whole host poor health outcomes. One of the hardest aspects of this dynamic to manage is the fact that is can be so subjective. If steroid damage is dose dependent, then the regulation is left completely in the hands of the user. The psychological effect of seeing rapid results and making great gains can become a very strong conditioning tool that locks the user into a cycle of abuse. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, the threshold to begin taking anabolic steroids is relatively low. All one needs to do is order online or have a pharmaceutical connection. From there, results tend to arrive in a swift manner, almost startling to the new user. However, after that, the irreversible and extremely detrimental side effects can take hold just as frighteningly. Unfortunately, the period between noticing a muscle mass gain, as well as a confidence boost, and the onset of dangerous symptoms is often just long enough to “hook” the user into becoming an addict, in a psychological sense.

The only way some people claim to use steroids “responsibly” (if that is indeed possible) is to stick to a strict rule and regimen of controlled and moderate usage. Some individuals keep the steroid cycle to a maximum of three weeks each and insist upon getting full blood workups both during and after cycles in order to ensure the damaging side effects are kept to a minimum. The thinking is that the body’s systems then have a chance to regulate the substances being introduced into the body and can normalize operations more quickly. Many people who follow a controlled regime such as this also forbid the use of the most dangerous steroids as they believe it would be too difficult to wean themselves off of a drug that produces such staggering gains but untenable downsides. Another issue that arises is that fact the body naturally builds up a tolerance to substances and dosages. Therefore, after a certain point, some people who espouse this way of steroid use, urge those taking substances to limit themselves to a certain threshold dosage, for example one thousand mgs, and never go above that. Once the body stops responding to this maximum dosage level over time, it is then time to quit using steroids permanently.