Worst known adverse reaction to steroid use!

The case of one of the worst known adverse reactions to steroid use, reported by Dr. Goldberg, is that of a 19-year-old West Coast woman who was preparing to enter her first bodybuilding contest, lifting weights and eating a high-protein diet. She then switched to a drastically reduced intake of food and water. Obsessed with her goal, she began taking anabolic steroids and a diuretic. The steroid would add muscle and the diuretic would drain the body of fluid and make the muscle stand out more.

She won the contest, but it will probably be her last. After she collected her trophy, she resumed drinking water and eating normally, and her weight shot up by 25 pounds in three days.

It turned out that the diuretic had masked the actual amount of muscle she had built up, said Dr. Goldberg, who was one of a group of health experts who reviewed the case. When she drank more fluids, he said, her muscles pushed out to the full over-developed size and crushed blood vessels in her legs.

Called compartment syndrome, the condition put her limbs, if not her life, in danger, and surgeons had to cut open both legs to protect her vascular system and remove significant amounts of the new muscle tissue.

That's a pretty scary story, but it sounds like she could have used some contest prep-help. I couldn't tell from the story, but it sounded like she started taking AS AFTER reducing the food and at the same time taking a diuretic. That's puzzling.

lol! can you post the actual info. That is hard to believe.

thats why you need to talk to pros..not gym rats

After dieting, diuretics, and AS, I know of a former pro who went into congestive heart failure after consuming an overload of sodium in the days following his competition. His weight shot up about 50 pounds....basically the same thing that happened to that woman.

FreakMonster said:

The case of one of the worst known adverse reactions to steroid use, reported by Dr. Goldberg, is that of a 19-year-old West Coast woman who was preparing to enter her first bodybuilding contest, lifting weights and eating a high-protein diet. She then switched to a drastically reduced intake of food and water. Obsessed with her goal, she began taking anabolic steroids and a diuretic. The steroid would add muscle and the diuretic would drain the body of fluid and make the muscle stand out more.

She won the contest, but it will probably be her last. After she collected her trophy, she resumed drinking water and eating normally, and her weight shot up by 25 pounds in three days.

It turned out that the diuretic had masked the actual amount of muscle she had built up, said Dr. Goldberg, who was one of a group of health experts who reviewed the case. When she drank more fluids, he said, her muscles pushed out to the full over-developed size and crushed blood vessels in her legs.

Called compartment syndrome, the condition put her limbs, if not her life, in danger, and surgeons had to cut open both legs to protect her vascular system and remove significant amounts of the new muscle tissue.

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compartment syndrome does not occur due to those circumstances....she would have most likely had the condition regardless of her drug use.