50 Year Old Newbie has a couple of queries?

[hektikk]

Hi Folks,

I'm approaching 50 years old and am thinking of starting a course of Steroids to kick start my Quads into working again. I plan to do ONE course and no more.

I was a Sprinter and Football player (American Football - not soccer) and throughout my career, never needed to resort to steroids as I believe I am/was an Mesomorph and found it very easy to gain muscle and burn fat. I retired from Football aged 30 after winning the European Championships. There was no greater prize and, as I was coming to the end of my shelf life as a Running Back, moved on to pastures new.

Since the age of 16, I have had over 30 knee operations (osteochondritus dissicans?) and in 2004 had an autologous condracyte implant (they take a biopsy - grow your cells and then inject them back into the knee surface under a patch). The problem with that surgery, other than the fact that it didn't work, was my knee was completely imobile for 8 weeks during which time my prized and adored (by me and possibly my girlfriend) Quads had atrophied to what I considered to be chicken legs.

I had yet another wash out and clean up inside both knees 8 weeks ago at which time, my surgeon informed me that if I could get the inner part of the quads (the teardrop?) built up, it would be a massive benefit to my knee joint as that muscle plays a major role in stability and weight bearing of the knee joint (I have grade 4 arthritis on both weight bearing parts of the knee (so I'm told)).

OK - For the past 6 weeks, I have been down the gym 4 times per week, working as hard as I can (which probably isn't that hard as unchained exercises (leg extentions) really hurt my knees). Absolutely nothing. So right now I'm in a sort of viscous circle. I can't lift heavy weights for my quads as my knee joints are no good - but I need to lift heavy(ish) weights to get my quad muscles working again to help the knee joints.

Wow! - I just realised that was some pre-amble to my query......................

So, finally getting to the point, I have been given 12 capsules of 250mg Testosterone Enanthate (for deep intramuscle injection?) and told to jab twice a week for 6 weeks. Er........that's it. End of instruction manual.

I have a couple of concerns!

1) Have I gone straight in at the deep end? - Should I start slower using something less drastic? I'm not scared of needles as I required local anaesthetic in my knees before each game - (and that REALLY hurts)

2) Where should I jab - Would it help if I jab the muscle I'm most interested in developing or just in the Bum?

3) Should I take anything alongside to help with possible side effects (I just read the excellent side effects page on this website and it talked about a whole range of stuff to take alongside). Not sure where I could get these in the UK. I am aware of the need for increased protein/energy etc as I pretty much ate 7 meals a day when I trained many years ago (2 meals were just protein shakes).

4) Should I just bin the Testosterone and try and get hold of (for example Anavar) ? - Don't know how I would get hold of this in UK - probably just order from this website and pray that it gets through) - I do like the added fat loss and reduced side effects on the chart.

Sorry for the ramblings, maybe I should have just posted the queries at the top, but thought I needed to say why I was using etc.

Thanks for any/all help,

Rob
(Oucheeeeee)

edit: dun wanna be banned, but i got quoted

[Matt]

please dont do the bolded, i wish i coulda pm'ed u, but i cant

Why would you want to pm him??

[hektikk]

Why would you want to pm him??

i thought im not allowed to discourage the website or something cos they sponser this site