tag0620
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- Nov 18, 2008
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- 11/2008
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Hi everyone!
Ok..in the last two weeks since starting the anabolic steroid cycle..my husband has gained 6.5 pounds and has gained multiple inches in shoulders, chest, biceps, and forearms...and...has gained 1.5 inches on his left quad (the leg where his drop foot started after his accident) and 2 inches in his right quad..and I am seeing very slight definition on those quad muscles that wasn't there before.
He has increased his weight lifted on legs by 5 pounds each week...which doesn't seem like much until you put it into the perspective of percentages...that's a 20% increase from where he was when he was "diagnosed" rather quickly. He's also increase on his resistance level on the bike and his resistance level on the springs in his pilates.
Am I right in thinking that in als, once the muscle is gone...there is no coming back?
Is this a good sign that we may be right...that his problems might in fact NOT be als...but rather a combination of his severe spinal cord injury and an unknown virus that's being treated with the antibiotic?
I feel like an odd one out here trying to prove he doesn't have als instead of thinking that everything points to it....but something in my gut says this neuro is SO WRONG and dismissed the other things that were going on and jumped to this conclusion too quickly.......
Any thoughts?
THANK YOU!
Tracy
Ok..in the last two weeks since starting the anabolic steroid cycle..my husband has gained 6.5 pounds and has gained multiple inches in shoulders, chest, biceps, and forearms...and...has gained 1.5 inches on his left quad (the leg where his drop foot started after his accident) and 2 inches in his right quad..and I am seeing very slight definition on those quad muscles that wasn't there before.
He has increased his weight lifted on legs by 5 pounds each week...which doesn't seem like much until you put it into the perspective of percentages...that's a 20% increase from where he was when he was "diagnosed" rather quickly. He's also increase on his resistance level on the bike and his resistance level on the springs in his pilates.
Am I right in thinking that in als, once the muscle is gone...there is no coming back?
Is this a good sign that we may be right...that his problems might in fact NOT be als...but rather a combination of his severe spinal cord injury and an unknown virus that's being treated with the antibiotic?
I feel like an odd one out here trying to prove he doesn't have als instead of thinking that everything points to it....but something in my gut says this neuro is SO WRONG and dismissed the other things that were going on and jumped to this conclusion too quickly.......
Any thoughts?
THANK YOU!
Tracy