Coming Down from the Cycle: Steroid and SARMs Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe coming off anabolic steroids and SARMs, the research-chemical products sold online. Writers include a personal trainer, a police recruit, a college football player on scholarship, a junior hockey player, a bodybuilder two days after his first show, an actor cast in a shirtless role, an offshore oil worker, a gym trainer who sold vials to a client who ended up in hospital, and the wife and father of men who used. Places run from Cork to Accra and Tallinn to Pune. Writers describe the crash after stopping: flatness, lost libido and, for some, weeks of not wanting to be here. They also describe a sperm count of zero, a tender lump under the nipple, thick blood and headaches, a voice that never came back, a torn biceps and a pec torn off the bone, yellow eyes and a damaged liver, foam in the toilet and swollen ankles, a high PSA, blood pressure flagged by a life insurer, a heart clinic at fifty, a hot swollen thigh, acne, hair loss, rage that put a fist through a door, and a mirror that kept lying. Some recovered well with a doctor's help; others are still in treatment, and a voice, a hairline and at least one relationship did not come back.

Who it's for

For anyone thinking about stopping, anyone who has stopped and feels worse than expected, and the partners and parents trying to understand, as a companion to a doctor's care.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 273 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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