steroids are a performance enhancing drug used by athletes and body builders, they use
them for more endurance and to look bigger. The people on this list began to abuse them
and the consequences were dire.
Candice Armstrong This woman from London began using steroids
because she wanted to gain bigger muscles because she abused it it caused her
to become very masculine. Candice has started to grow excess body hair
including facial hair and she also developed acne one more strange side effect of the steroids
caused her clitoris to swell which now looks like a mini penis.
along with this her voice also became slightly deeper.
she has no plans on putting a stop to the steroid use. She claims that if she would
put an end to it then it would do more harm than good.
she also said that she didn't expect to look how she does now, she said she just wanted bigger arms
and broad shoulders. She said that people shout insults at her while
she walks down the street.
Romario Alves Romario Dos Santos Alves is a brazilian body
builder, to make himself look bigger he decided to inject synthol
this is a risky cocktail of oil, alcohol and sometimes painkillers. The mixture makes the
muscles look as if they are inflated but really it is just skin filled with oil.
after abusing it his arms swelled up to 25 inches.
the synthol began to start solidifying and synthol crystals started to form in his muscles.
he said his muscles felt like rocks. doctors warned him that his arms may have
to be amputated but luckily they were able to remove the synthol rocks instead. he claims
that injecting synthol becomes very addictive. kids in the local area are scared of him and
call him "monster" Synthol is commonly used in brazil and many have died from using the
method as we will learn about in the following case.
Arms Explode There is very little information surrounding
this case but once again it is synthol abuse. this brazilian man abused synthol and it had
a devastating result. In 2010 he was involved in a motorbike accident which ruptured his
bicep. he was rushed into the hospital but due to excess bleeding the doctors couldn't save
his life. Synthol is not actually sold in brazil so
people result to injecting oils , they inject cooking oil and a veterinary oil known as ADE. injecting
oil rather than actual steroids is common in brazil and many people die from it.
Andreas Munzer Andreas was an austrian professional body
builder known for his ability to reach extremely low body fat levels.
he had competed in several competitions such as mr olympia. On march 14th 1996 he died
due to his steroid abuse. He took several anabolic steroids and also took human growth
hormone and several diuretics. shortly after a competition in 1996 he began
to start suffering with stomach pains after months of suffering with them they got
so severe that he was admitted into the hospital. doctors had found out that he was suffering from
internal bleeding, they decided to operate to try and stop the bleeding during this they
had found that his liver and kidneys were badly damaged from his years of steroid use,
they then started to fail. At this point his condition was too severe for a blood transfusion
he then died on the morning of march 14th at the age of 31. his death was ruled as multiple
organ failure. at the time of his death his body fat level
was at 0% it was also found out that he had 20 different drugs in his system.
Greg Valentino otherwise known as "the man whos arms exploded"
and "the most hated man in body building" he began to start bodybuilding at the age
of 14, he said he believes he suffered from little man syndrome and wanted to get as big
as he could. as a result he started using steroids and
also injected synthol. after years of injecting and re-using needles without properly cleaning
them his bicep became infected and an abscess formed.
he said his arms where like a giant bag of pus. realising the damage he caused gregg
decided to operate on himself, he filmed the entire event. In the video he shows himself
sticking a syringe into his bicep and withdrawing huge amounts of blood and puss.
after loosing too much blood he decided to go to the hospital, doctors performed emergency
surgery and removed a large portion of his bicep.
shortly after being released from the hospital he was put in prison for selling steroids