From Fox News reporting for the BBC:
Athletes considering using steroids to gain muscle may want to reconsider after seeing the deep, ulcerating sores on the chest and back of a 21-year-old man, the BBC News reported Thursday.
German doctors who wrote about the patient in The Lancet, said they were shocked about the extent of the sores.
Even after treating them with antibiotics, the man was left with severe scarring. Experts said a milder form of acne is usually a side effect of anabolic steroids.
Other side effects include potential damage to organs such as the liver or the heart and infertility.
“Usually in people taking moderate doses of the drug you see some sort of mild acne, but in severe cases it can ulcerate,” said Dr. Peter Arne Gerber of the Department of Dermatology at Heinrich-Heine-University in Germany.
"The doses this man was taking were within the doses that are used among bodybuilders."
Gerber said the patient did not stop using the steroids once he noticed the ulcers because he did not want to lose muscle mass, however, he did stop when he found out it caused low sperm count.
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