Side Effects

Anabolic steroids are known to mimic testosterone, the chief male hormone, thus affecting women severely as compared to men. If on the other hand men were injected with estrogen, the chief female hormone, some more drastic changes would be manifested in contrast to them being introduced in women. Females using Anabolic Steroids eventually experience virilization, the development of male characteristics seen in voice deepening, growth of hair on arms, back, legs and other score of unusual parts. Baldness is also another effect of anabolic drugs on women.

'Bitch tits' is another adverse effect of steroids or gynecomastia, as it's widely known. Gynecomastia is that development of minute tumors around the nipples on the chest giving a man some female-like breast appearance. This is arrived at after steroids have been transformed into estrogen after the eventual metabolic process. Higher proportions of estrogen in varied levels enlarge all the mammary glands around the chest of a man. Any development of breasts or mammary glands around the nipples has its regulation carried out by estrogen. It's secreted by the pituitary glands in milk form and through breasts. In steroid abusers the condition can only be corrected via surgery, which is intensely painful and most of the time disfigures ones chest permanently.

For the prevention of any irreversible change in females, abuse of anabolic steroids must be curtailed completely, immediately they have been detected. Even after an immediate discontinuance, some transformations are irreversible making women to have permanent irregularities in their menstrual cycles.

Acne can also be a manifestation of the abusive traits of anabolic steroids and again affect women more than men. In addition, since there are steroids which are excreted via the skin, harmful bacteria materialize on the skin. In turn severe acne problems can result many being seen around the back and chest areas. In many cases, these acne problems could give rise to heavy scars which leave serious distortions on the skin for life.

Foul breath is a reality with anabolic steroids as some of these drugs are excreted via the lungs. This is not a severe effect though it proves overtly embarrassing.

Most abusers of anabolic steroids justify their use of steroids intravenously, since they forego all the metabolic processes within the liver. But this does not absolve them from being excreted out via the liver, portending serious and severe damage.

Cases of purchasing steroids from black market sources always and still pose serious risks. Lots of notorious people have not evaded the arm of the law for selling and making counterfeit steroids, some even within their basement. The danger here is that you may not be sure what you are using and hopefully, it can be just cooking oil though rat poisoning drugs have been reported.

Serious tears on muscles and tendons can be occasioned by steroid usage. After their use, steroids enhance body strength and overall muscle mass thus making an individual to have the ability to work with heavier weights more than ever before. Thus the body builder can overstretch his/her body to abnormal limits leading to muscle rupture and tear since the body had not been used to such proportions of exercises.