I used to get so mad that sweat would run off me and I would shake with pure rage. It resulted in me nearly killing my best friend. I went to prison.

So if anyone is thinking of taking them, I strongly hope you will read this and think again. I was not an angry person before. They change people and will ruin your life and others around you. Steroids are drugs.

That same night, he started accusing me of crazy things that were just not true. He was screaming at me that I am a slag and telling me to provide evidence that I was telling the truth. How can you prove that you are telling the truth even when you are?

He smashed my property up and ended up kicking me, dragging me by hair and trying to strangle me. This was a lovely man whom I thought was my soul mate and he has turned into a monster. I don't believe in coincidences like that.

Steroids with his insecurities are the reason why he has done this. I am sad about it.

Since then, he yells and curses me. Then one night he tried to jump out of a car while I was driving down the highway. I could not get him to calm down. When we got home the rage just continued. He put a hole in the wall, yelled and screamed all kinds of terrible things and then left. The next day he said he was sorry but it was a weak apology.

A couple of weeks after that, I was driving again and he was in one of his rages, on the way home from a friend's house. He grabbed the steering wheel and yanked us of the road into a ditch. The car was totaled. Air bags deployed, just totally ruined the car. When I asked him what made him do that, he just replied that he was selfish and never once thought of my safety. The man who claims he loves me just tried to kill us both. I think I am still in shock.

Since then I have found a needle all loaded up and ready to go with a clear yellowish liquid. I have also found out he is going to take something called Winnabol next. I have told him to move out but so far he has not. His rage didn't become severe until the wreck. I am not sure how long he has been using this time, so I don't know how soon the bad effects will start happening. I do not care if you are with someone using them; you shouldn't wait until something bad happens because it could be too late. I was lucky. I survived.

Please, go ahead and take your stuff, be it injections or pill and do your sets, weigh in – if you gain another pound you might just be “OK” with yourself today.

Go around as if you are a king, self-righteous, overly confident, pompous, egotistical jerk and put down your friends and family. Alienate the ones who love you. Just leave the normal people alone because it is not they who have the real issues.

What's more astounding than the article itself are the comments. Although I'm not that surprised considering how the media has demonized steroids. So where are all the references to these claims? I see none, period. Some of these comments are just so far off base I was literally laughing out loud to myself for 15 minutes. Steroids killed your 26 year old brother? I have not heard of one documented case of an AAS fatality. Let's see the autopsy report. The side effects of steroids far outweigh the benefits? Are you kidding me? The side effects are mild when compared to that of other drugs and medication. Check out the side effects of alcoholism. Yeah, that's what I thought. I don't see anyone banging down congress' door to reinstate prohibition.

Yes, there are steroids that cause increased aggression, but that doesn't impair judgment. The other 90 percent of comments are just sob stories from women about how their man left them because of roids. Guess what ladies? I hate to break it to you, but it's not the roids that made them leave you. Number 1 reason "loss of attraction"! (you probably got fat). So quit blaming Steroids for your failed relationships. Your cries fall on deaf ears.

I have a 22 year old brother. Before he took steroids he was a very loving guy. He was always hugging me and kissing me. He used to be a good guy with awesome conduct. He never said curse words to me or our parents. But one day, when a friend of his told him how much steroids could build him up, the nightmare began. Now he is extremely aggressive, always insulting everyone. When he walks down the street, he insults strangers for no reason. He always tells me how stupid I am and that I should be dead. He punched my dad in the face something he never did. In the past he was a very nice guy. I want to help him but I feel that I can't. He lives now far away from my house. I miss my brother so much. I miss so much the good brother I had in the past.

Roid rage is something real and we should pay very close attention to it. At first, when my brother started to use steroids, everything was ok, but then after one or two weeks, everything turned upside down, including my very own life. What about Chris Benoit? He had roid rage and he killed his wife, son and then he killed himself. Steroids are not something good, even if you take them in a responsible way or if you take a small dose of them. Steroids are something very dangerous and those who have a brother, husband, etc. who is taking steroids have to watch out because it's dangerous. --Nair.

As you can imagine, he promised never to touch them again, but recently I suspected he was back on them, as the rage and change in him had returned.

We have now broken up again and my life has been turned upside down.

I don't know where to turn to. The man i love is now so cold and hostile. It hurts how he can turn his back on us and tell us he doesn't love us!

Someone help and explain to me how the person changes so quickly. Please. --Lois

I found an article online that shows how dangerous steroids can be. Please people, stop using them!

I love him. He is forever a bodybuilder and I accept that. I have gone through the lies from him that it was me or my fault. It is not, nor is it our fault or any other woman that i have read posts from.

He has mellowed and the supplements he takes now wear off in hours, where at least I get a few good hugs and some coherent conversations, But what about the rest of the time? I feel that among the 100 logo gym shirts and put downs, I am fading fast.

It's better, but have I settled too much? Where can I get help? Where can the women suffering from the side effects of this disease get help? I have a child and I don't want to leave him, but I used to have a fire and now it is but a spark.

he is hundreds of miles away, but i learned that he just broke up with his fiance last night (with a text) over a stupid fight. He has not been physically violent but i feel is acting inappropriately and am afraid he is making a huge mistake.

The same dr. prescribes xanax for GAD (major anxiety) and steroids for the pain and muscle mass that he endured since an accident about 12 years ago. Can anyone help me out here? I'm very concerned. Can't seem to get a straight answer about this.

I don't care to hear horror stories about men who want muscles. I just want some facts about how steroids effect the psyche of a 30 year old trying to do the right thing but I think it's backfiring. Thanks. -- Frustrated in NY.

i run every day and work out. It's all about how you use them or what you use. also, before i started them, i was a smoker. Once i got on them for a while i stopped smoking. when i tried it make me sick.

when i stopped using roids i started smoking again. some people use them for different reasons. it has helped me for what i am doing, so not all are bad. just watch what you use and how you use. and once i have never stuck myself with a needle.

This was a wonderful, fun loving man and now I'm sleeping in a sun room in a basement because I don't trust him or feel safe with him for the first time. This man's a complete stranger. Yelling at me to get the bleep out of his house one minute, and crying and begging me not to leave the next. This is some really messed up stuff! And it's costing me everything I've worked for!

Not all people will react this way, but plenty do. If you take them and nothing happens find yourself lucky but don't for one minute tell those that know--it is not the steroids.

At least be responsible enough to see that drugs create different things in people. Alcohol, some can drink and be fun and happy, others are mean and hostile. Same thing. Except steroids don't go out of the system as fast.

Wishing all the women that find men on these drugs to be warned! They are volatile. Watch out.

The next day he is at a concert, turning our home into a "man cave". Having his buddies sleeping on the couch and out at the clubs every night. He could care less about us. He stated to the police that the attack never happened and that I was out to get him.

He was making up some fantasy about who I was. I was a lazy horrible person. I made him dinner and he said I didn't make dinner that I just made a mess for him to clean. There was no mess, just his food I prepared for him. He continued with this type of behavior two days before the attack.

He is now homeless (restraining order/move out order). He is at the gym every day. His face has gone from soft and sexy to hard and ugly. In court he was not able to say anything or understand the judge unless it was in his favor. He ended up being taken in by the deputies for not being able to control his outbursts.

His daughter's grades have fallen to D's and F's, and she had her first detention this week. She has dumped her girl friends to hang out with boys. All this so he can have muscles. Better watch for what you wish for because it might come true. If you are deciding whether or not to take steroids, don't do it.

His sex is bad, too. The steroids won't let him get an erection. He is unable to satisfy a women sexually. Ladies, don't waste your time with these men. They're sick and are too much into themselves to love and care about you. The muscles hide a very insecure man with mental and emotional issues. The steroids make them mean, nasty and mentally ill. It's just a matter of time before they self-destruct! Don't let it be you he explodes on! Run!

I'm only 5'4" and the mother of our two young boys. I just left him this morning. I was afraid for the safety of our children and myself. He has already jumped to a few other women in a day!

I'm still really scared he will do something and will be sleeping with my big dog tonight! I knew of his steroid use that he claims is past (ended blue dianabol) in Feb 2010 but actually he couldn't really identify them to me, although I found liver pills packages in the trash and he says he is taking some little purple pills (arimidex, i think?)

I don't know how it all works, but I do know he is crazy, not to mention he has a family history/personal history of mental issues. I'm so sad to lose him this way. (My boys are too. They are too young to understand why Daddy has been mean to Mommy.

If you are considering using I hope this makes you consider not using. It hurts families and you can't imagine the feelings the other people in your life will go through all so you can have muscles. It is not worth it! I always loved the man no matter the muscles. A strong heart is way hotter then a muscular (and pimply) body!

But seriously, if you are having family problems please get help! Some muscles? So what! That is worthless if you lose the ones you love!

He has always been the type of person who is quiet and never would hurt anyone's feelings but mine. Now it's to the point he is hurting his family, kids, my family. He is fine for a week and then he is the devil. He thinks every female wants him.

I have been hurt so many times with him flirting with other women and i have to beg for his attention. I have been through so much depression and he adds so much more. He tells everyone his levels are low and it affects his sex life. Well, that is a lie, and if it did then he wouldn't be out flirting with other women, telling them i won't have sex with him and so on.

He is so bad and he will say things in front of people that hurt my feelings so bad and he wouldn't say he was sorry for anything. He wasn't like that before.

I get so sick of everyone asking me when he takes these spells what is wrong with him. He says it is us, but he better realize what he has at home, because the next time i have to find out he has been talking to a female and telling them what i beg him to tell me, it won't be pretty.

I will say the same thing he does and say it's you sweetie.

Lately it seems like everything is a problem. We have arguments for no reason and it's frustrating. He just started Decca so I'm unsure if its the reason. It's scary because we can be happy an laughing one second and the next I'm being accused of things out of this world.

He called me a name for the first time in four years and I don't understand why he is so angry.

My brother is taking steroids, he is 21 years old and it is destroying his life. You guys are sitting on this site "condoning this". This makes me sick. Four years ago, my brother was a fun-loving guy. Steroids have now turned him into an isolated young man with a hostile temper and its very addictive and he won't stop. Not to mention, it is killing my family seeing my brother in this shape.

You guys who do this stuff are so "conceited" and into yourselves that you don't stop and think what this does to your body in the long run.

Hopefully one day you guys who "juice up" will wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late.

as with anything you put into your body, responsibility and education are key. You can overdose on food, you can overdose on weed (missed a job interview) -- an overdose is an overdone! You can overdose on water and die, too. So harden up and do some research before you blame the world because you took too much.

I use steroids, and I know what I am talking about from experience and from research. Not from the media. But you are correct. You are a person who may not fare as well. But don't put the rest of us down. Some of your favorite wrestlers, baseball, football, hockey, boxing, ama, have taken different things at different times and they helped do the trick for them.

Steroids alone will not get you far.

I once read a typical dumb post that said,

"Why don't these steroid users just go to the gym like everyone else!" As if you need not bust your butt in the gym, eat right and sleep right to make major gains.

Sad to say, but most of the naysayers know less than they realize.

But again, I support your decision not to use; it's a good one in your case. Just remember that we are all different and so should not have others running our lives.

That guy who is having problems with his temper should probably stop and make things right with his wife. He should also get some counseling because it sounds like he needs it. Then again, we didn't hear his side of the story either. Peace. Good Choice

There are a few cases where guys had heart attacks while doing aerobics who were also on steroids, but there are 10 times that many that died while doing aerobics who were not on steroids, so maybe we should outlaw aerobics?

To the 16 year old: stay away from steriods until you are at least 22! Taking anabolic steroids before you develop your growth plates and endocrine system is a very foolish thing to do. Go on any responsible steroid board and you will be told that. Bad, bad, move.

For now, learn how to work out correctly, use whey protein, learn about your diet, take a course in nutrition in school, get plenty of rest each night and get as big as you can until you are 22 years old, and then, educate yourself on steroids, anti estrogens, and other pct things before you even think about taking steroids.

Steroids are nothing to play with unless you understand exactly how they work, which ones are right for your goals, and how to use on cycle and post cycle supportive drugs to eliminate side effects. Steroids, if used, need to be used with knowledge and responsibility.

Boston Paul

I am on juice and I don't beat up my beautiful wife. Sure, certain steroids like androl, can make you very aggressive, but not all steroids are the same. This is the big lie of most anti steroid lobbyists. They like to label any one of over a dozen popular anabolic as "stroids" as if they are all the same.

A man taking 500 mgs of testosterone a week, or 500 mgs primobolan, or a woman taking 20 mgs of anavar is not very likely to act violently unless they were that way to begin with. And if they were that way to begin with, why allow them to get off the hook by blaming the steroids, instead of just blaming them?

Yet this guy goes on to say" Despite the studies" and then contradicts the studies to fit his own opinion.

Name these murders "linked" to roid rage. What does that mean? Linked? Because he took roids, it was roids that caused him to kill? No proof here.

I already have a bad temper and have suffered from depression and i could literally see my life being flushed down the toilet by doing that crap. Thank you so much, you've helped me more then you know! James

When I first took the juice I didn't do it properly and I wasn't in the healthy state of mind to be doing them either. Since then, I've used them properly and I have been fine. You could actually relate roids to alcohol:

1. When you take too much it sets you off in horrible moods.

2. Having an empty stomach makes the 'rage affect' worse.

3. Chances of damage to the liver and arteries. 4. When you're drunk, people look more appealing until your sober/ When on roids, you look more appealing, until you come off them.

My opinion is, if you're going to hit the juice then know your limits (just like booze). But at least steroids are for a constructive reason.

I believe that steroids are too easy to get hold of, and the people who take them don't know enough about the side effects, or how to take them safely.

And as to wanting to look like a real man: real men don't hit women, steroid abuse or not!

i was a really quiet boy. Now i just get aggression and want to break people's heads for no reason. I have stabbed people as well for no reason.

"Oh, I got sucker punched after I charged the guy." No, that's not what they say, they press charges, after picking a fight in a beauty salon! That their girlfriend started! That's what they deserve!

I am scared how easily steroids can be bought and how many people actually take them. I don't want to call the cops on him but he needs a wake up call that I can't give him.

"Hopefully steroid use will decline as fitness concepts move away from the "Conan" look to the "Tour de France" look."

Sounds like more crap to me. Men still want to look like real men.

Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS), are just that, androgens. It is without a single doubt that these hormones *will* cause a mood change in a person, as aggression and dominance is in fact an animalistic instinct that we have learned to control, which is elevated by increased testosterone and/or other synthetic androgens which activate the androgen receptors.

A person who does not know how to control their behavior will most likely react badly to these hormones. This is just a fact, as they already have problems and anabolics will simply aggravate the issue.

Since Anabolic Steroids impart their user with profound muscular strength and size, this also contributes to the aggression as the person feels more powerful, and subconsciously believes more in using force to solve their problems than before.

This is all "on paper knowledge", however. In reality, the majority of anabolic steroid users don't go around on rampages. There is no conclusive evidence showing that just because a person decides to use anabolic steroids as an ergogenic aid, that they will act any differently than normal. The dangers of steroids and their effects on our mood has been overstretched drastically, which is the same story for the majority of drugs that are illegal.

In conclusion, I believe this: A person on anabolic steroids is no more dangerous than any other person who could very easily obtain weapons and commit crimes for any reason or in reaction to emotions. Federal regulation is an utter failure when it comes to our drug policy, it's effectiveness is simply masking the problem, not removing it.

i mean people are going to take them no matter what, so best make it legal so people can take the best ones and be well educated in what they're doing to they're bodies.

I also think that governments - specifically the US government - should really crack down on professional athletes who use steroids. The kids are just trying to be like their idols and if their idols actually got in trouble for doing stupid things like this, maybe the kids wouldn't be quite so quick to emulate them.