don't you think upping the gear dose like that is a little reckless as far as health goes? You've been doing this a long time and I've learned a lot from you. I imagine you have monitored bloodwork and things like that. Can you talk a little about the health aspect in your experience of high doses and long term usage?
ofcourse upping the dose is reckless... so is almost anything else bodybuilding related other than the training (IMHO, even the typical diets are shit... there's not much balance in them and waaay too much protein)
Even on a large dose of gear, i feel much better and have a lot less GI problems than when i use less than half the dose and eat like a typical bodybuilder... i.e. a pig.
my bloodwork has mostly been in the healthy range even after long cycles, and i've posted a couple of tests on promuscle where only my CK was in the high range, but that's because i worked out the day before the test. even my CBC was good after more than a year on cycle.
I have had much worse health scares when i started drinking again. mind you, I go on a couple of days of binging every 2-5 months or so. and my blood work looked much worse... looks much better a month after while still on cycle.
I wouldn't want to give the idea of steroids not having any health consequences... they do!... but they are mostly exaggerated, except for those who are genetically unfortunate.
if you stay clear of orals and fat burners and use them only sparingly, i truly believe you won't suffer anything serious and your blood work should look fine (again, unless you're genetically unfortunate)...
a lot of my friends have problems, now that we're in our 30's (none of them workout or use gear or anything like that)... they have cholesterol problems, diabetes, some of them are anemic, fatty livers... etc. i'm probably the only one with just a simple blood pressure problem (again, hereditary)... so, imagine if these guys used gear... they'd be here preaching that high doses are disasterous blah blah blah...
and really... in this point in my life... i just wanna weigh less and eat less to be healthier... ask an honest doctor and he'll tell you that your health goes downhill after the age of 30. even if you take care of yourself (whatever that means)... you're bound to face some issues, with gear or without. alcohol, narcotics, lack of sleep, stress, overeating... these are killers. gear? i see the effect minimal if you are't really overdoing it (I see many guys here over do it... 3-5 grams, shit ton of GH, and on a ton of 'meds'... prescribed or not)
I've mentioned before that a lot of my immediate family members suffer from some serious health problems... the only 2 ppl who are healthy are me and my dad (we're 6 siblings, so, we're a lot! LOL)...
as far as blood work is concerned, i've never experienced anything alarming (neither have any of my trainees except for thsoe who had them worse before using gear)
as far as how i feel... the worse i've ever felt was on the following:
- compensating gear for diet (as in, eating 3500 cals to start cutting while i'm 200 lbs and only on 750 mg or less... or even clean at the time... i felt like absolute crap and felt very, very, very unhealthy)
- using a ton of fat burners in a magical way (last time i was on a ton i was not eating much food and felt ok... still very high resting heart rate, but nothing like a lot of fat burners with a high cal diet... high cal to me is anything over 10 x bw in lbs)
- not being sober for 2 days straight and only sleeping less than 10 hours in those 2 days... lol... yeah, that felt like death. I was this close to going to the ER from the way i felt... and i haven't seen a doctor (other than for trying to schedule a tonsilectomy, or getting a doctors note) in over 12 years.)
that post was long... LOL