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23.09.2016 |
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Coughing blood during steroids cycle
Chemical bodybuilders who accidentally inject their anabolic steroids into a blood vessel instead of muscle can develop temporary problems in their respiratory system. They become short of breath and may even cough up blood. Usually you notice it immediately if you inject wrongly, but sometimes it takes longer for the effect to be felt. Danish doctors described two cases in the medical trade journal Respiratory Medicine Case Reports.
Bodybuilder, male, age 29
When the doctors examined him they found nothing abnormal initially. Granted, the guy had miniscule testicles, but that's to be expected from taking steroids. They tested his blood, including the blood he had coughed up, but found no pathogens or sign of inflammation or an allergic reaction.
The doctors made a high resolution computed tomography scan [a sophisticated X-ray] of the man's lungs and saw haemorrhages everywhere. They are the white patches in the figure below.
The doctors assumed that the haemorrhages were the result of the injections of testosterone or nandrolone that the man had given himself. The steroids are dissolved in oil and have to be injected into muscle tissue. If the injected material enters the bloodstream by mistake, then oil can get into the lungs. And there the oil droplets cause bleeding to take place.
Literature
The Canadian decided not to intervene and to wait. In the two days after the symptoms gradually disappeared, and a week after a 'wrong' injection the Canadians detected no more haemorrhages on scans.
Doing nothing
Bodybuilder, male, aged 19
The doctors asked the bodybuilder to stop and the symptoms disappeared spontaneously. A few months later the scans showed that the lungs were functioning normally again.
Conclusion
"Our cases illustrate the importance of raising awareness of the acute and possibly life-threatening adverse effects of anabolic steroid abuse. In the case of high resolution computed tomography, findings with predominantly ground glass opacity primarily in the peripheral regions in an extremely athletic patient, suspicion of anabolic agents induced diffuse alveolar hemorrhage should be considered."
"If diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is suspected, bronchoscopy should be performed immediately to establish. The diagnosis and withdrawal of the suspected drug is crucial."
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