I never was that interested or concerned by the PED debate. I just figured that if someone passed the tests and got away with it-just part of the game. Well, now I understand. I had a small injury that the doctor decided to treat with a steroid. The steroid did nothing for the injury, but it sure made my morning run much, much easier. It was completely different on the steroids than before. If fact, now five days after the last of the pills it was back to a slower pace and a struggle up the hill that I did not even notice the week I was on the pills.
I asked the doctor about it when I talked to him on Friday and he said that yes this stuff would be exactly what you would take if you wanted to cheat. Now I’m firmly in that camp that anyone doing it is a complete cheater and should be thrown out of whichever sport they’re in.
My mother has COPD and when it gets bad during allergy seasons (which seem to go on forever in Nevada), her doctor puts her on steroids for a short time period.
The difference is amazing.
It might be the same stuff they gave me: Prednisone I think that's how to spell it. It does open up your breathing passages.
I hate to break the news for you, Prednesoine is not the same kind of steroid you take to make you stronger. Google it and read about it, its called corticosteroid (sp?) or something like that, it more of an anti inflammatory. I've taken it off and on over the years when I've gotten into poison ivy.
It does hype you up some, and can make you hugary, and hard to sleep. I've always had really weird dreams when taking it.
I wasn't told it would make you stronger. What the doctor told me was that it would make it easier to breath while exercising. He said it would open the breathing passages and you could get more oxygen. For sports like running, basketball, soccor it should not be allowed. He had me on large doses for a short time (6 days) and it probably had an increased effect.
Ahhh, that makes sense.
Picture any athlete that is on the cusp of being great. All he/she needs is a bit of an edge, somebody shares with them a 'product' that will get them there...
Or
You're an older athlete...and you know you've lost a step...that same product is brought to your attention...
You're an older athlete...and you know you've lost a step...that same product is brought to your attention...
Older, that's me! I come from the time when someone wanting an edge took speed or whatever it's called. Of course that never ended very well for those guys.
It is banned. When my son wrestled in college, they gave him a list of banned substances. I'm sure that Prednesoine was on it along with a lot of common over the counter products like neosyniphrine.
