Anabolic steroids and uc

I've never done them myself but I have seen that a lot of people say their symptoms go away when on cycle and can come back pretty ferociously when off cycle. Unless you are older and can just continuously cruise on a TRT level dose I would not consider doing it. Curious to see what others with first hand experience have to say though.

I agree with aiming upstream when possible. I am also taking pregnenalone and I take mk-677 which is a ghrelin secretagogue. Ghrelin helps UC quite a bit and many bodybuilders use mk-677 due to ghrelin stimulating growth hormone reliably. It's a measured risk for me. It's not a steroid but tends to be mentioned in the same category.

I have been on them for a couple of years now , and i did flare up heavily when i rested for 3 months , but will say ive always felt uc free whilst coursing and have started again now and feel brand new considering i was in hospital 8 weeks ago ,,,, i use ttm--test , tren, masteron and never lose blood etc i am now 100kg from 89 kg from when i was in hospital .... I genuinely believe i could cruise without my proper meds ( azaphioprine , metalazine , infliximab ) they make me feel sick and ill all the time , anabolics make me feel 100% ,just wondered if i am the only one feeling content on roids or was there any horror stories ??

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MarkWithIBD said...
I take 50mg pregnenoline and 25mg DHEA daily, and I am in remission. It's more dangerous to take the downstream hormones like testosterone or estrogen. Taking the upstream ones does not have negative feedback and it will usually help adrenals that are stressed.

I can't speak to anabolic steroids like TRT as they are not in the same category. I personally wouldn't. It's better to treat the steroid hormones as a kind of supplementation to help your body's process along instead of do something heroic by forcing it.

Do pregnenolone and dhea help with your uc? What effects have you been getting from these two? What supplement brands are using? Could you also share your age?

Age 34. Effects are: reduced physical consequences of stress, weight balance, resistance to inflammation, stronger immune system, faster tissue repair (I healed from my flare in 3 months instead of 9), remission from UC, bone resorption / osteoporosis recovery from prednisone, better day to day energy, better sleep, feeling more robust in general. I went from the worst flare of my life to remission and working a part-time job within 3 months. This was after being on disability for a year.

Unfortunately I have an adenoma in my pituitary (small tumor). It's wreaked havoc with my hormones. I am taking meds that both (hopefully) shrink the tumor, and stabilize my hormone levels. One of them (clomiphene) has the effect of causing your body (if you are male) to greatly increase testosterone levels. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on my UC which is currently in a very deep remission. I suspect my T levels will probably end up in the 700+ range based on the typical response that is to be expected from the drug. Supposedly triggering your body to make more T is way safer than supplementing with injections or gel. I hope they are right about that.

Ive read a lot about this mk 677 , and in the body building world , training sector , its looked at as a gimick it sound good and sttates amazing claims but there isnt a true oral u can take that boosts growth hormones , it has to be injected into the abdomen ect , tablet form just dont work and as far as ive been taught cant work , i mix with s a lot of suppliers in and around this area and we are yet to see a oral that works in this claimed statement ..... Me personally i wouldnt waste my money on gimick pills ,

Yes, I am still using it and it's actually been very successful for me. I don't use it every day but I haven't had any of the terrible days I used to. I'm actually very well and getting very active in working out again. It definitely makes me hungry. That said, that only makes me a single testimonial. I can't recommend it on one success story alone, let alone the fact it's an unscheduled drug currently. I can only report my experience.

It is true that it's very hard to supplement growth hormone but mk677 is not growth hormone. It's actually a ghrelin mimetic. Ghrelin is known as the hunger hormone but hormones tend to have a cascade of effects including secretion of growth hormone. The fact that it's a ghrelin mimetic and not growth hormone itself is a vital difference. Ghrelin has a nice list of benefits in intestinal inflammation that growth hormone itself does not and being a ghrelin mimetic makes it more predictable. Thanks to its attention from the weight loss world, it's a very well studied hormone.

In the bodybuilding world, there is a good chance it's a gimmick for bodybuilders. I couldn't really speak to that however there is science supporting it's use for UC. UC versus bodybuilding is a very different set of needs.