Sports and Science volume 1 issue 1 | Page 12

Steroids Abuse & Side-Effects

Men who take anabolic steroids may:

-Develop breasts

-Get painful erections

-Have their testicles shrink

-Have decreased sperm count

-Become infertile

-Become impotent

Women who take anabolic steroids may:

-Grow excessive face and body hair

-Have their voices deepen

-Experience menstrual irregularities

-Have an enlarged clitoris

-Have reduced breast size

-Have a masculinized female fetus

Both men and women who take anabolic steroids may:

-Get acne

-Have an oily scalp and skin

-Get yellowing of the skin (jaundice)

-Become bald

-Have tendon rupture

-Have heart attacks

-Have an enlarged heart

-Develop significant risk of liver disease and liver -cancer

-Have high levels of "bad" cholesterol

-Have mood swings

-Fly into rages

-Suffer delusions

Teens who take anabolic steroids may:

-Have short height due to arrested bone growth

-Girls may suffer long-term masculinization

By: Saad Ali