posted Thu, 09/26/2024 - 12:48
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A week and a bit into my first cycle and I've been struck down with a virus. Super dissapointing, I want to be in the gym making gains. I've learned my lesson, last winter I tried to keep lifting and working while under the weather and ended up sick for a month straight and losing a bunch of weight. Ever since covid I seem to be going down with something every 2 weeks - a month during the cold season.
Beyond sleep, eating good, the normal vitamin supplementation, is there anything out there to help? I'm turning into a germaphobe, the constant viruses are stealing my time, health and gains.
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AK80This is what I do. I haven't thrown up since I was a kid back in the 80's (well, except for my 21st birthday when I had a couple vicodins and Jager bombs lol) Water, sleep, NAC, Animal Pak vitamins, proper injection protocols, don't wash your hands after going to the bathroom (I mean, unless it's obvious you have to like from an accident or something), skip out on the hand sanitizer, greek yogurt, don't tax your CNS by over-training, cut back or cut out drinking and smoking. That's all you can really do.
oh shit I am bannedSame here. All the hand washing and hand sanitizer they’re using is why they’re sick all the time. Body has no idea what to do to fight off the germs
oh shit I am bannedWhen I was a kid as gross as it sounds never washed my hands, also never got sick, only time was the flu at 1 year old seems the people that are sick all the time are constantly washing their hands, taking every precaution in the book etc. If your body doesn't have to work to kill germs it won't know how to kill germs. Someone else said in another post like this to go outside and lick a hand rail and thats probably some of the best advice given in this situation. Your body can handle germs stop acting like it cant
Funky as it sounds it has been cited that overwashing hands and the bacterial soaps set us up for sickness. Plus the soaps with phytoestrogenic actions arent good for humans
oh shit I am bannedYeah, these people don't understand that. Normal people in good health don't need to be constantly washing their hands and avoiding touching their faces/different surfaces in public etc and you most definitely don't need to be carrying around hand sanitizer with you. Your immune system is there for a reason
Always have some amoxicillin and penicillin on hand. That stuff comes in handy on so many occasions and it’s a total lifesaver.
Also, try not to touch your face out in public places, it’s a problem I have and it’s how I get sick often. Fixing facial hair, eye rubbing, pickingcough touching my nose. That’s the fastest way to get germs into your body.
You could also carry a tube of hand sanitizing alcohol in your purse to use when out and about. Super convenient.
Unless it’s an infection the body struggles against naturally never implement antibiotics, all they do is compromise your natural immunity when overused. I know several people who can barely fight off the common cold because they always turn to antibiotics.
The face touching thing is so true, I've become very aware of it, and switched my gym water bottles to one's that I can open and close without getting my hand anywhere near the spot you sip from
Don’t listen to medical advice on Internet forums. Taking antibiotics for viruses won’t help and can do more harm than good especially if you get sick often.
oh shit I am bannedlmao @ the sanitizer in your purse. thats facts. only place to carry the sanitizer
I’m confused. You think having and/or using sanitizer is silly?
oh shit I am bannedYes. If you want to clean your hands use soap and water
lol the combo of your above comment and this one. Oh to be blissfully ignorant. Though I’ll admit, it is definitely an easier way to go about living life. Sort of like the blinders they put on horses, so they don’t get spooked seeing things in their peripherals.
AK80Nope it's real. It helps build your immune system. See my post above. OF COURSE sometimes we have to sterilize things though depending on the situation. That yellow dial soap? HELL NO! All that does is dry our skin out with Triclosan. Tee tree oil soap is better and kills the bad stuff in a "better" way. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=triclosan Banned in some countries, messes with estrogen, testosterone and thyroid.
Y’all are really on here preaching not washing your hands after using the bathroom. This shit is ridiculous. All puns intended there lol
@SeeOhShow Now we know why the gyms are filthy and pass things around like pink eyes
( sick ) people
AK80Everyone has different strengths of immunity. I dunno, I'm pretty skilled at how I go to the bathroom and don't touch anything. But the toilet seat itself? Yeah, I always seem to hit that damn thing every time for some reason. Probably dried pre-cum from all the stuff I take and then it dries and then I spray sideways. It sucks. For shitting, I just build a big nest, lay my chocolate eggs and then kick it all in bowel and use my shoe on the toilet handle. In and out.
oh shit I am bannedKeep using your hand sanitizer and getting sick. I'll keep not doing that and not getting sick. No ignorance about it just facts. Sorry that your immune system doesn't work well
23 years in a row now, haven't been sick a single time minus the flu as a baby. What am I doing wrong if it's working? And what are you doing right if it isn't working?
Come on guys, men in what I would hope is good health if you're on a steroid forum using hand sanitizer and getting sick all the time, I don't know that just doesn't seem right to me. Your immune system should be working. You should not need to avoid touching your face or need hand sanitizer after opening a door in public in order to not get sick, that is not normal
Ok so by your “logic”, people in third world countries with no access to all these vaccines, soap, or sanitizer should have the strongest immune systems in the world and never get sick. Yet the rate of death from things like dysentery (caused by viruses, bacteria, or parasites…aka “germs”) is the highest in these poorer countries. Well they shouldn’t be getting dysentery, because their highly efficient and robust immune systems from never washing their hands (like you say caused your robust immune system) would preclude them from be susceptible to these germs.
I think the term 'Never argue with an Idiot who is convinced they are right' comes to mind here LMAO Hilarious looking back over some of these old arguments. Thats right kids - if you wanna never get ill then NEVER wash your hands.
oh shit I am bannedYes death rates are higher in third world countries because they don't have access to the vaccines we do. But they are also drinking contaminated water all day every day too in a lot of those countries
I am not anti-vaccine or anti washing your hands or whatever. Only anti-covid-vaccine
Point is you should not be needing to use hand sanitizer or run to the bathroom after you open a door in public to wash your hands. Your body should be fighting off and killing those germs
Also - since you don't know how a vaccine works I'll explain it for you: vaccines introduce your body to a weakened form of the disease causing germ, which then triggers an immune system response, so that when your body sees the antigen again, it knows how to fight it off more effectively. Same exact fkn thing as licking a hand railing. You get the germ into your body, and your body learns how to fight it off
Also, you're likely a hypochondriac if you're constantly using hand sanitizer after opening doors, etc. You should speak to a mental health professional in my opinion
Oh I remember the days when I was still a child and thought I knew everything. Thankfully I grew up, and I hope the same for you too. Though that was much earlier than 23 for me. We all start somewhere though.
Lol not sure why y'all are even going back and forth on this issue. Not debatable
Good Spot Brother!
23 Years Old and too young to have an account on eroids.
oh shit I am bannedYeah you’re just saying that because your feelings are hurt and you’re petty
What’s worse me having an account at 23 or the guys on here that are 40 blasting grams to look like they’ve never stepped foot into a gym a day in their life?
Been taking steroids since 18 I think I’m fine to have an account
@Greg
oh shit I am bannedNothing better to do?
Let’s look at this from a logical point of view @Greg little man here doesn’t like me so he wants me to be banned
I have no problems with anyone else on here. I know what I am doing and have been using steroids for over 5 years
Why should I be banned but the 40 y/o DYEL’s allowed to take grams and grams
I think we let me stay here honestly ?
Because you are under 25 and not physically or mentally fully developed. @Jockstrap started smoking when he was 15 that didn't make it right, seemed ok at the time. but it stunted his growth and now at 40 he's a 3-foot four-and-a-half-inch tall gimp. (he gets upset if you don't mention his half inch)
Eroids gets scrutinized enough as it is. We don't need to add child abuse to the list.
Anyway, that's my logical point of few from the other end of the age spectrum.
Yeah I knew we went way back.. yessir!
Ya Dumb Idiot LMAO - You do realise just how many guys you are offending saying that comment don't you!!
I think its worse that at 23 years old you are clearly a depressed and lonely kid in his bedroom looking to hang with a load of 40 year old guys - you need to get some friends your own age. Starting age is 25 years old on here, to cut down on exactly the kind of people like you. Steroids at 18, you are clearly a bright one aren't ya.
oh shit I am bannedNot depressed not lonely and I don’t ever spend time in my room alone
What's your mothers hourly rate?
It’s not an hourly rate, it’s typically $20 and two cigarettes for a blowjob in the car. If it’s chilly out and you turn up the heat a click she’ll put forth a little more effort.
oh shit I am bannedAhhh press I feel bad for you bud
It will be interesting to see if by the time you are the Legal age to be on here being 25 yrs, whether or not you will still be alive considering you are only 23 and running 600 Tren and Superdrol currently.
oh shit I am bannedI think I will. Coming up on week 5 or 6 now on the superdrol. Liver enzymes not elevated at all as of last week and feeling great. Going to just keep running it. I’m very healthy. Killing it right now though that’s nothing new. Have a beautiful life ahead of me
oh shit I am bannedGood response. Don’t think I know everything but I know I know more than you. In my first year of med-school with a 4.0GPA my entire academic career
Oh the blissful ignorance shines again.
oh shit I am bannedEducation level and profession?
ChBE degree from a top 10 ranked university in the country. Dick measuring is irrelevant to the topic. Saying your body should be exposed to anything and everything to build an immune response is objectively false. You should know better if you indeed are going through medical school.
oh shit I am bannedYeah I don’t think I’m saying you need to expose your body to anything and everything. I’m saying you don’t need to be panicking to find hand sanitizer every time you open a door in public or touch a surface in public in order to not get sick. I’m saying that is absolutely insane behavior and that a mental health professional can help you best
No but if I see some snotty faced 5 year old smear his hand across his face then grab the handle to something, you bet your ass I’m going to sanitize my hands after touching the same handle. Or wash my hands before I touch anything on my person. Wash/sanitize same difference it’s whichever one is closer or more convenient at the time.
There are obvious circumstances where you know something is contaminated.
AK80Just for the record, that HAHAHAHA guy tried to friend request me. I see that he got banned. I appreciate everyone keeping this forum cleaned up! Respect to @press1 @Greg @DeeMan @Jockstrap @SeeOhShow Thank you.
Jockstrap? Huh???
Yeah man I've seen alot. I appreciate the good ones. Keep doing your thing my man @AK80
oh shit I am bannedi agree with you there : D
AK80I'll agree with that, yes.
One of the easiest things to do when you are out is buy a sandwich or bag of chips (crisps lmao) and then eat it - forgetting about all the lift buttons, door handles, bus/train railings you have just touched.
Chicken broth in large volumes is my go-to when I get sick.
I don't get sick often but when I do it seems like it's the end of the world. I do plan on getting the flu shot. Worst thing ever is to have a virus while you're on cycle so I feel for you man. Load up on zinc and vitamin c and get plenty of sleep and water.