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steroids effect on psychology of aids patients

different drugs, but themost popular choice would be Nolvadex, when used in the male system preventsaromitization or testosterone conversion. Testicular shrinkage can be counteracted withHCG which tells the body that it has produced to much ooestrogen. The body counteractsthis with producing more testosterone naturally, thus keeping the testicle size normal. Therisk of getting cancer from steroid use is a mute point for an AIDS patient, because cancercomes from years of heavy stacking.The only true risk that an AIDS patient would find would be the increase ofaggression that comes from the increase of testosterone. Multiple tests involvingtestosterone cyanopate showed a significant increase in the aggression of the subject, bothhuman and animal towards other subjects and towards inanimate objects(Kouri EM et al1995, Choi PY 1994, Nakatani Y 1995 ). Many of the results in the human cases weretaken by asking patients standardized questions about everyday life, along with having todescribe a list of situations that were presented. The biggest downside is that many ASusers had a significant increase in aggression towards women and had significantly morefights during their relationships than did non AS users (Choi PY 1994). The increasedaggression with the unnatural increase in muscle size can be viewed as a serious problem.The user tends to be stronger than those around him or her. With the mix of the badattitude and the increased size makes the user hard to deal with sometimes.There are other tests though that are inconclusive about the increase of aggressionlevels of the user. One test asked a series of questions about the everyday life of the user.They only found a significant increase in aggression of the user during weight trainingsessions(Parrott et al 1994). Another test was performed to see if there was significantincrease of the driving aggression of the anabolic steroid user(Ellingrod et al 1997). Thetest found that there was no d...

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