Fuck it, I'll also tell you the main reason why I know a lot about AAS.
Back when I was 19 (I'm now 27) I bought some stuff called 1-AD from a GNC store. 1-AD is a pro-hromone, not a steroid. Anyway, I used it and it did seem to work. How much is hard to tell as being 19 I was consistently getting bigger and stronger through gym work and although I did put on a few pounds on the stuff the gains weren't that remarkable. Anyway, I liked the stuff as it seemed to work and they were no side effects as far as I could tell.
Anyway, pro-hormones were then banned in the US and it was impossible to get 1-AD any more. So I did a search and came across something called M1T which was being sold as a prohormone too. I just assumed that it'd be pretty similar to 1AD...I was very, very wrong.
I started taking the stuff and after only a few days I looked bloated and felt rough. On the fourth day I started to feel really crap. This got progressively worse on the fifth and six day. I thought I was just sick but did a more detailed search on M1T and found out it was actually a steroid. It somehow slipped some regulations that would classify it as a steroid. even though it WAS a steroid. I had no idea that I was taking a steroid, I had always thought that steroids had to be injected and that they would be really expensive. I stopped taking the stuff and within a day I felt miles better and was pretty much completely fine after two.
I'm really glad I reacted badly to the stuff as the damage I could have done if I'd stayed on M1T is pretty scary. Even though it was cheap (a bit cheaper than taking NOXplode) it turns out it is a very powerful steroid with particularly bad side effects. A regular steroid (like testosterone) will be destroyed straight away by the liver if taken by mouth. In order to make steroids works if taken by mouth they are modified by 17aa alkylation which allows it to make it through the liver into the bloodstream...it also makes the stuff toxic. Also, you can't just take this stuff by itself, it needs to be combined with post cycle therapy to reduce side effects (e.g. bitch tits) and help your body cope with coming off AAS . This involves (among other things) taking cancer medication. I didn't have access to any of these other things so if I'd stayed on the stuff for a full course and then stopped cold turkey I'd have lost all the muscle I'd put on because my natural testosterone production system (brains and balls) would have been shut down and would take a long time to start working normally again. Without natural testosterone or the AAS my muscle tissue would have just started to waste away. Fortunately I was on the suff for a short enough time that the damage was minimal.
I'm not proud of taking M1T or being that stupid but I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale which will hopefully make some people think twice about taking AAS