I have to say, some people will blame anything on anabolic steroids.
While browsing pubmed for my phD, I found this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...4/?tool=pubmed
Case report:
A 50-year-old man of Indian descent, known to have mild, chronic hepatitis C, presented with a two week history of diffuse abdominal pain. Six weeks prior to the onset of the pain, he had a gradual onset of anorexia and a 20 pound weight loss. Our patient noticed darkly coloured urine and pale stools beginning around the time of the onset of pain. He had not received treatment for his hepatitis C infection. He had intermittent and occasionally heavy alcohol consumption on weekends. He had also been taking methandrostenolone: 10 mg orally twice a day, five days a week for three weeks and then three times a day, five days a week for the next five weeks, for a total of eight weeks immediately prior to presentation.
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Conclusion:
Although there have been previous reports of severe cholestasis and jaundice with the recreational use of anabolic steroids, this is the first case report where acute pancreatitis and acute kidney injury also resulted from such recreational use.
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So, not his hepatitis C, or the fact that he was a drunkard gave him PANCREATITIS, jaundice and kidney injury... but steroids.
The methandrostenolone could have worsened his condition, but it sure as hell didn't cause them.
Any oppinions on this?