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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: myseone on October 15, 2010, 09:56:19 PM
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I always wondered why certain steroid users had chipmunk cheeks. Maybe this answer the question
Doctors at the General District Hospital of Athens in Greece discovered a new and probably highly rare side effect of steroids use. A thirty-year-old man who did a lot of weight training took a course of anabolic steroids for a month and ended up with distorted growth in his face.
A week before the man went to a doctor, he had noticed that there was a swelling in his left jaw. He admitted to using anabolic steroids: he had been taking them for a month and had gained six kilos. He injected an ampoule containing fifty milligrams of stanozolol every morning, and four hundred milligrams of primobolan [structural formula also shown] every three days. And now the left-hand side of his face had gotten bigger.
The man had been having trouble with a painful molar in his right jaw. The tooth had cracked, been filled, and finally extracted. Thats why he'd been chewing on the left side of his jaw for a few weeks. When the doctors made a scan of the guys
skull, they discovered that it was the cause of his lopsided face. His left masseter, the muscle that pushes the lower jaw against the upper jaw when we chew, had grown in size. The right masseter had not grown.
The masseter is shown in the drawing. It's the red muscle in the cheek area. The scan of the bodybuilder's skull is shown below. The grey half circle on the right side is the hypertrophied masseter which had caused the asymmetry in the man's face. It's resting on a white thing up against the skin. The white thing is the jaw.
To make absolutely sure of their diagnosis, the Greeks took some cell material from the enlarged jaw muscle and did lab tests. The doctors found muscle fibres of type 2A and 2B in the sample. These are fast, strong muscle fibres, which react to power training and anabolic steroids.
In their article the Greeks do not say whether the steroids user recovered. They came up with the idea of injecting the enlarged muscle with Botox, which paralyses muscles locally. If the man couldn't use the muscle, the doctors reasoned, then it would shrink back to its normal size. That was a pretty stupid idea. If you're dealing with a power athlete, the last thing you should do is to mention a treatment that will break down muscle mass. Even if it's only muscle mass in the left jaw.
"Unfortunately, the patient did not come back for follow-up", was the Greeks bewildered comment.
link: http://www.ergo-log.com/lopsided.html
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He almost died for GB.
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See Tom Platz and Vince Taylor.
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So steroids make your muscles grow??
Now that's new. ::) ::)
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It definately gives you that "muscleman" look on your face though. :D
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IT MAKES ALL ALL ALL muscles grow not just ones u pick out or are training
this is well know for a very long time now.
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sounds par for the course on the rhetoric coming from the medical community
take one bizarre case that literally happened to one person in millions and now present it as a possible side effect
all medications whether, BP meds, or anti-depressants, or ED meds............have a small fraction of its users that experience bizarre deleterious side effects, and sometimes death
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How many pros take steroids? How many have chipmunk cheeks? ::)
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How many pros take steroids? How many have chipmunk cheeks? ::)
well pretty much all of them in the offseason
but the is very specific condition where and asymmetry on the face develops due a jaw muscle on one side of the face growing irregular
i havent met, nor seen, another bodybuilder, anywhere with an affliction of this nature
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Why take steroids? You been perfected as is. The downfalls of life is lack of knowledge and understanding. And most have been fooled, they know nothing. And hate them selves.
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Why take steroids? You been perfected as is. The downfalls of life is lack of knowledge and understanding. And most have been fooled, they know nothing. And hate them selves.
stupid logic......
why wear eyeglasses.......i mean, you've been perfected as is?
why breath?
why jog?
why not torture animals?
why take Advil?
why watch television?
why read?
why do anything? only endeavors your deem meritorious possess value and are worthy of participation? ::) ::)
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stupid logic......
why wear eyeglasses.......i mean, you've been perfected as is?
why breath?
why jog?
why not torture animals?
why take Advil?
why watch television?
why read?
why do anything? only endeavors your deem meritorious possess value and are worthy of participation? ::) ::)
spot on.
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yes platz looks fucking idiotic with that face.
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yes platz looks fucking idiotic with that face.
you would respect him in jail though.
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you would respect him in jail though.
lol...classic Mars
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"The man had been having trouble with a painful molar in his right jaw. The tooth had cracked, been filled, and finally extracted. Thats why he'd been chewing on the left side of his jaw for a few weeks."