need advice on steroid use with osteoporosis/crohns/ulcerative colitis

[JoeyBoy]

my younger brother (21 years old) has battled most of his life with Ulcerative colitis/crohns disease and as a result of this has struggled to gain/maintain weight. 5'10 and weighs 55kg down from 75kg at the start of the year.

He was prescribed prednisolone (corticosteroids) on many different occasions for his crohns/colitis and as a result of this has also developed osteoporosis.

i was wondering if using an anabolic steroid along with weightlifting (oral or injectable) for weight gain and to help strengthen his bones would be beneficial or if it would have a negative impact on his crohns/colitis or have a reaction with other medication ( azathioprine, mesalazine, fosamax)

any information is greatly appreciated

[JoeyBoy]

no advice?

[MastaMan]

Weight bearing exercise should help considerably... talk to your doctor and maybe if the fosamax or whatever doesn't work he could consider it.

[lovbyts]

Taking aas could make these things worse. He is also to young. Try to find a better doctor, specialist. If anything I would talk to a doctor about HGH

[JoeyBoy]

what are you talking about?

[gixxerboy1]

Taking aas could make these things worse. He is also to young. Try to find a better doctor, specialist. If anything I would talk to a doctor about HGH

i agree non of us are doctors and he has serious medical conditions. Nothing i would play around with. Well i do on myself but i wouldnt advice others