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Steroids: People
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Some people who take long-term steroids like to wear a Medic-Alert emblem. You wear it as a bracelet or necklet. It is engraved on the back with the member's main medical condition, personal identification number, and 24-hour emergency number. For further details contact:
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While using steroids is one way of quickly gaining body mass it can lead to a number of side effects. These side effects can be harmful to your body both in the short term use as well as the long term usage. Along with a number of other people you might find that using alternatives to steroids is a good idea.
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Muscle wasting With very long-term use of steroids, wasting of leg muscles may occur. This can cause weakness. When the steroids are stopped some people have muscle cramps for a short time.
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Increased chance of infections as steroids may suppress the immune system. In particular, you are at risk of having a severe form of chickenpox if you have not had chickenpox in the past (and so are not immune). Most people have chickenpox as a child and are immune to it. If you have not had chickenpox in the past:
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Just watching "Rome Is Burning" on ESPN, and host Jim Rome is going over the San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds refusal to admit taking steroids. The graphic at the bottom of the screen reads "LIAR, LIAR" - that about sums it up for how people feel, huh.
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View this hour-long Webcast to learn about the health effects of steroids and hear how the pressure to win influences choices people make. See what the DEA, legislators, sports leagues, and schools are doing about performance-enhancing drugs.
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