Originally Posted by Asmodeus__
HI.
Well i thought i was a quite knowledgeable guy about bodybuilding and then...
Done a cycle with a lot of things, one of them (and the most important regarding this issue) beeing deca.
Been on ephedra, about 100mgs/day for 4 months non stop.
What happens is that ephedra causes production of dopamine and serotonin.
After months on ephedra, your body stops or decreases serotonin and dopamine production.
Deca also contributes heavily to this, severely aggravating it all, but i do not know the exact mechanism, but it has to do with progesterone.
Stopped the cycle and the ephedra at the same time. Bad, bad call.
Since my body wasn´t producing dopamine or serotonin, and my estrogen level was higher than normal, I developed huge depression, psicosis, and paranoia, and a chronic othello's syndrome. Thought my girlfriend, which i loved deeply to be always betraying me, which lead to losing her. Lost my job. Cried all the time. Unable to sleep. Attempted suicide twice. One of those times jumped from the 7th floor of a building. Apparently Bodybuilding saved my life (we Bodybuilders have more dense bones).
I will never take ephedra after this.
It happens or its potentiated by low androgenic steroids, especially deca.
Curiously, When on high androgen cycles, I do not have any of this. Example: D-Bol, Testoviron, Trenbolone.
I know it's not a well balanced cycle, but I feel like a million bucks while on it, and keeping some proviron post-cycle enables me to get to normal endogenous values without any major mental or hormonal problems.
I'm almost fully recuperated now, but 2006 was a year to forget. As obvious, all of that changed me as a person. I'm a quite extreme case but the information's here. cheerz.
