Immune system shut down after ass use?

[davidboy]

I was wondering if using ass for long period time will it shut down immune system?

[x_moe]

i remember a while back reading an article i believe that said steroids can be good or bad for your immune system, a proper use of steroids can make your immune system stronger and abusing steroids in a long period of time can weaker your immune system. cant be so sure if that info. is true tho. and i think it said that this has something to do with the balance of your body hormones. but it wont shutdown your immune system

[frank12391]

Right after a long cycle of EQ and test I got an infection on my index finger which started from a papper cut. An abcess developed, cellulitis spread up the lymph vessels to my lymph gland and I went under a general to have it lanced and drained. I was on IV antibiotics for 4 days followed by 10 days of orals. I must have washed my hands about 30 times that day at work since I work in a medical enviroment but I didn't notice anything till the next morning after an early night. When I read your thread, it made me wonder.

[stupidhippo]

it is actually a more complex question... when simplified: it says in many textbooks that AAS supress immune system.. but the real situation is a lot more complex.. basically what xmoe said above..

[Maldorf]

personally I feel like my immune system is strong while on, but when you go off into pct it is quite suppressed especially if you dont do proper pct. When I first started using AAS about 9 years ago or so I didnt do proper pct and would almost always get a bad cold when I went off.

[armbar83]

According to this i guess it is suppressive if you are doing "high intensity" training. So i guess good news for all those cross country aas users.


Ferrandez MD, de la Fuente M, Fernandez E, Manso R.
Department of Animal Biology II (Animal Physiology), Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

The effects of the administration of suprapharmacological doses of anabolic steroids (AASs) on the immune system were examined in sedentary and exercise-trained rats by testing mobility and proliferative response in cultures of thymus and spleen-derived lymphocytes. Male Wistar rats were exercise-trained following two programmes of treadmill running of 3 months duration, differing in intensity, in the absence of treatment or with simultaneous i.m. administration of a suprapharmacological dose (10 mg/kg/week) of nandrolone decanoate (ND) or stanozolol (ST) during the past two months. At this dose ND reduced body weight gain, promoted a redistribution of immune cells from thymus to spleen, impaired lymphocyte mobility and inhibited the mitogen-induced proliferative response (about 90% inhibition for thymus-derived cells). Stanozolol (ST) treatment was without effect on body weight gain, but it also induced a redistribution of lymphocytes and modified the in vitro lymphocyte activity, although less severely than ND. Application of the high-intensity training programme reduced lymphocyte mobility and proliferation in vitro and a simultaneous treatment with anabolic steroids further impaired some of the immune cell responses. Application of the endurance-directed training programme, however, did not reduce mobility or mitogen-induced proliferation of lymphocytes, and normalized the activity of these cells in anabolic steroid-treated rats. So, endurance exercise, contrary to high-intensity training, could counteract the apparent negative effects of high doses of androgens on lymphocyte function.

PMID: 9010338 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[bbplaya21]

I was wondering if using ass for long period time will it shut down immune system?

i hope not or i would be screwed for life

[mkrulic]

I was wondering if using ass for long period time will it shut down immune system?

it can if you dont use a condom

[davidboy]

[Sust Man]

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