DOES OBSESSION OF IRRATIONAL STACKING ANABOLIC STEROIDS WITH TRENBOLONE ACETATE OVER DECADES LEADS TO GENERAL, CARDIOVASCULAR OR SOCIAL DEVIATION PROBLEM IN YOUNG ADULTS, OR JUST BIGGEST MUSCLE MASS IS EQUAL HIGHEST SOCIAL REPUTATION IN GYM AND IS THIS ALL PRICE HEALTH WORTH? - CASE REPORT

Sid Solaković, Mensur Vrcić, Ratko Pavlović

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Inconspicuous epidemic of anabolic steroids application among young recreational athletes contributes to a greater potential damaging of the overall cardiovascular and mental state of obsessed individuals. All of them turn to anabolic steroids without a rational concept and take them in big amounts with unbelievable irrational combinations (stacking) of anabolic steroids of wide spectrum and questionable quality from black market with the aim to satisfy their pathological obsession of subjectivity of muscle mass, strength and appearance. An examinee, 36 years old (with the height of 182 cm and the weight of 168 kg), recreational amateur power lifter comes to doctor because of the subjective hardships in the form of tiredness and occasional pain in chest area with exact location (on the level of sternum and pectoral muscles), denies retrosternal pain. Also, he reports dizziness and occasional leg pain. He suspects that he has insufficiency of artery peripheral circulation. Personally, he also names frequent insomnia, decrease of tolerance levels alongside tolerated aggressiveness and anger attacks with auto mutilation and periodical depression

 

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