I almost hate saying this, but I started taking Dianabol at the age of 21. 10mg per day for 30 days. A prescription from my family doctor, which he renewed for every other month. And continued taking AAS’s for three decades to improve my competitive advantage.
To be fair… You had access to continual monitoring from a medical professional.
Not taking black market hormones on your lonesome.
A lot of people take early, not everyone has a bad outcome. But many do, and using AAS is a potentially life altering decision that many lack the relevant maturity or insight to make. This statement can be said for those older than 21 too (hell… Some 30y/Olds are children), but generally the younger you are, the less one is able to grasp the concept of their own mortality.
Immaturity doesn’t have an age or generational limit. I find immaturity exists pretty equally amongst all age groups. It only manifests in different ways.
I suppose I just get tired of hearing “Millenials suck, Gen X and boomers are the greatest”, especially when I know and have seen people from the ages of 15 to 35 that would run proverbial circles around the older generations. Every generation has their hard workers and every generation has their slackers, and I don’t think one generation has a higher percentage of hard workers or slackers than any other.
To be totally fair what access to continual monitoring from a medical professional are you saying? A family doctor gave me the Dianabol, and I would see him about every six months. He would ask how I was feeling. I would say fine. And he would prescribe more Dianabol. I had never been given a blood test by any doctor that wrote a prescription for any AAS’s that I got.
He did no blood tests, and I don’t know what he would have tested for other than liver function.
That said, I never knew anyone who had any problem taking AAS’s. And I knew quite a few. Apart from, some people didn’t seem to get any benefit from the drugs. We called them “sinks”. They might just as well poured them down the kitchen sink.
It is only on this site (the only weight lifting centered internet site I have been) that I hear of people having issues taking AAS’s or TRT. This is all new to me.
One huge benefit of getting AAS’s from a doctor was that I knew they were pharmaceutical grade. As more and more people began using steroids the government intervened and that was the end of doctors writing scripts for us.
Inshallah ur well bro. Hope you come back and let everyone know how it went. Cheers mate.