Strep throat 8 days into test e cycle

[Mountainman360]

I I started my first cycle of test E last Monday. Doing 500mg/wk for 12 weeks. Have been using HCG 250iu 2x a week and aromasin 10mg ED. I've pinned 3 times so far, 250mg each (mon, thurs, mon) and after my second pin started developing a sore throat. Realized today it's strep and can tell by how my tonsils look. Also have had body aches and feeling lethargic/ swollen, sore lymph nodes ect. I'll be going to the doctor tomorrow and probably put on antibiotics for 10 days, which is the usual for strep from what I've studied. My question is, does anyone think the start of my cycle had anything to do with me developing strep or body aches? I've heard of test flu but don't know if that's what this is. Anyone else experience this or something similar? Any advice would be great. Sucks too cause it's painful to even drink water let alone eat all my calories for the day lol also would the antibiotics have any negative effect on my cycle?

Stats

Training 5 years 180, 12% bf 6'
Super ectomorph build and hard to put on any weight
No cycle experience except a prohormone (epistane/hexadrone) mistake where I fully recovered about 10 months ago

[thephoenix25]

While steroids are known to lower your immune system a little, I doubt it has anything to do with the strep throat, just an unfortunate coincidence. You should be fine on prescribed antibiotics at the dose set by your doctor, perhaps just take it a little easier in the gym for a few days till it clears. Not what you want to hear at the start of a cycle but stuff like this happens now and then.

[Ashop]

I I started my first cycle of test E last Monday. Doing 500mg/wk for 12 weeks. Have been using HCG 250iu 2x a week and aromasin 10mg ED. I've pinned 3 times so far, 250mg each (mon, thurs, mon) and after my second pin started developing a sore throat. Realized today it's strep and can tell by how my tonsils look. Also have had body aches and feeling lethargic/ swollen, sore lymph nodes ect. I'll be going to the doctor tomorrow and probably put on antibiotics for 10 days, which is the usual for strep from what I've studied. My question is, does anyone think the start of my cycle had anything to do with me developing strep or body aches? I've heard of test flu but don't know if that's what this is. Anyone else experience this or something similar? Any advice would be great. Sucks too cause it's painful to even drink water let alone eat all my calories for the day lol also would the antibiotics have any negative effect on my cycle?


Stats

Training 5 years 180, 12% bf 6'
Super ectomorph build and hard to put on any weight
No cycle experience except a prohormone (epistane/hexadrone) mistake where I fully recovered about 10 months ago

If it is strep its just a coincidence. If your not going to be down to long you can continue.

[MrFreshmaker]

Streptococcal is caused by a bacteria and is contagious,so probably you took it from someone!

[thisAngelBites]

Streptococcus A (that causes strep throat) is everywhere, and lives on your skin, and it's been swabbed and cultured out of operating rooms (which are intended to be rather clean!). No one is sure why and when it causes problems in some people, but certainly people who have some immune suppression are more at risk. So a cycle could make you mildly more susceptible (perhaps you are someone who gets more immune suppression during a cycle than the usual person - I am sure time will tell on that), and maybe it's bad luck, or maybe you have some other mild immune suppression (hypothyroidism or high cortisol or something) and with the T that just made you susceptible enough.

MrFreshmaker is right that if you were around someone who already was growing lots of that stuff in their throat and coughing it out in microscopic droplets that would have increased the chances of you coming down with it.