Can AAS lead to joint problems on its own?

[shoichi]

Muscle outgrowing and strengthening quicker than your tendons/ligaments, plus all weight you gain can put stress on your joints right; but can AAS alone damage your joints?

I went in to do a heavy chest workout today and I couldn't do any bb presses at all, my elbows just really hurt bad. I'm taking 500mg of Glucosamine and 400mg Chondroitin 2x a day, and going to be adding MSM soon. In addition, I have to ice my elbows and knee sometimes after workouts.

And the thing that bothers me, I'm not even really that big - at least nowhere to where I want to be. However, I feel my joints are really starting to hurt where it's effecting my lifts in a big way, and though lifting lighter (alot lighter) is an option, it hurts my ego when I know I can lift more.

 

[yellowdog]

throw some deca in the mix.
YD

 

[Realgains]

Ys they can but not usually in the elbow....sometimes in the hip.

What happens is the steroid can reduce blood flow to the joint but problems usually don't happen until after a traumatic injury. Remember Bo Jackson the great Football and baseball player? Well he injured his hip in football from a tackel and he got avasular necrosis of the ball of the hip (no blood flow and then cell death) so he needed a total hip replacement and that ended his career of course. This almost never happens with non steroid users at a young age....he was on JUICE a lot.

Winstrol will sometimes make joints stiff and a little sore but usually doesn't cause any real harm.

Nandrolone with winny is a great stack as all uyour bases are covered with a good class 2 roid like winny and a great class 1 like nandrolone. Nandrolone also lubes up the joints somehow through water retention in the joint itself I think.

RG